Health Care

Framingham Union Hospital now has more unionized employees, as the healthcare facility’s nurses voted to join the Massachusetts Nurses Association union.

The headquarters of a Franklin manufacturer has been purchased by a Wakefield-based real estate investment company for $17 million.

Heywood Healthcare leaders have worked in the last several months to right-size its operations amid an ongoing bankruptcy, said co-CEO Rozanna Penney, but Monday marked a day of regeneration for the Gardner-based health system.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Medical Group, MutualOne Bank, and Boston BioProducts.

WBJ readers voted for the top 55 companies in categories like Best Bank, Best Nonprofit Fundraiser Event, Best After-Work Bar, and Best Forensic Accountant.

After receiving a $93,071 grant from a Boston-based nonprofit, UMass Chan Medical School will be launching a new oral health intervention pilot program aimed to assist people experiencing substance-use disorder.

UMass Memorial Health plans to make headway on its long-term plan to add 200 beds to its University Campus in Worcester by converting the former Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center, which it purchased in 2021, into a hospital building.

After hinting at a corporate restructuring in November, Psychemedics, an Acton-based manufacturer of hair drug testing kits, has announced it is moving their corporate headquarters to Dallas, Texas.

While the Legislature voted in October to restore millions of dollars that Gov. Maura Healey vetoed, leaders of four organizations say the funds have yet to start flowing or be committed through contracts with the state.

Heywood Hospital in Gardner will reopen its inpatient mental health unit on Jan. 11, after having closed the facility in October 2021.