Health Care

To reach vulnerable populations, healthcare providers find news ways to deliver care where patients are most likely to need treatment.

Known as the sandwich generation, many middle-aged people in the U.S. today are performing a balancing act, working while supporting older children in high school and college, and caring for an aging parent or other loved one who is no longer independent.

Dementia is a disease of aging that is, for many, the most frightening. Patients lose their sense of agency, and often become totally dependent on others for daily care.

Discussing long-term care options for an aging loved one is not a conversation people happily anticipate. In fact, it can be challenging and uncomfortable. It’s also a conversation that shouldn’t be put off.

Venturing into the unknown of life’s later stages can be daunting. However, if we are armed with the right information, support, and advisors along the way, we can all end up winning at life.

UMass Memorial Health, the largest healthcare provider in Central Massachusetts, has signed a non-binding letter of intent to explore a potential affiliation with one of the region’s few remaining independent hospitals, Milford Regional Medical Center and its Milford Regional Physician Group 

Saint Francis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a Worcester nursing home, is adding inpatient dialysis services to its offerings.

Marlborough-based Hologic, a medical technology firm specializing in women’s health, has entered into a partnership with international pharmaceutical firm Bayer to provide enhanced imaging mammogram services. 

About 82,000 Bay Staters lost MassHealth coverage in August, another sizable drop in enrollment as the state reaches an "inflection point" in a year-long effort to review eligibility for every single member.

Advocates working to prevent UMass Memorial Health from closing its birthing unit at HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster are doubling down their efforts in the last days before the planned closure, attempting to persuade Gov. Maura Healey to issue a stay to keep it open.