Health Care

New professionals have joined Synergy and UMass Memorial Medical Group.

The situation in Central Massachusetts, where 15.6% of named executive officers are female, largely mirrors the Massachusetts rate of 16.1% determined in a statewide census.

Massachusetts will receive $8 million to address the opioid crisis as part of a $350 million national settlement with Publicis Health.

Tenet Healthcare Corp., the Texas-based, for-profit healthcare services company that owns Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell four hospitals that the company operates in Southern California.

Though the name of the client and the cancer treatment it produces is confidential, Rentschler Biopharma's Tom Roberts says this is just the first in a new wave of business in Milford for the 150-year-old company. 

During a policy breakfast at a Boston hotel, Health Care Financing Committee Co-chair Rep. John Lawn told biopharmaceutical and health care industry leaders that ensuring constituents have access to care is the "number-one priority" for the Legislature.

One of the two co-CEOs of Heywood Healthcare has been voted onto the board of an association representing 70 hospitals and healthcare facilities across the state.

While the demand for services is there, the lack of utilization is a workforce issue, said Jehlen, who co-chairs the Legislature's committees on both elder affairs and labor.

The end of the 10-month strike involving nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester in January 2022 didn’t bring an end to disagreements over working conditions at the hospital, new complaints show.

One key factor behind the increase had been forecast by state officials: the MassHealth eligibility redetermination campaign.