Health Care

UMass Memorial Health is once again requiring all caregivers at its healthcare settings to wear masks during patient encounters. 

Vincent Strully Jr., founder of The New England Center for Children and CEO of the autism education organization for 48 years, has retired from the position and will step into an advisor role.

A third of a way into a sweeping effort to reassess MassHealth eligibility for roughly 2.4 million Bay Staters, the anticipated wave of disenrollment is beginning to appear.

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Inna Nechipurenko has received two grants totaling $564,000 to advance her study into how cellular structures called cilia affect the development of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Black patients had disproportionately higher acute care utilization compared to patients of other racial and ethnic groups, and Hispanic patients visited emergency departments at a disproportionately higher rate compared to White patients, according to a new state report on inequities in health care.

Worcester Business Journal is accepting nominations for the inaugural Champions of Health Care awards. The newly launched awards program seeks to honor healthcare professionals on all levels who are leaders in the industry and in the region.

The Community Healthlink substance abuse programs that have been closed since April will need eight to 12 more months to reopen, according to a letter from the Worcester Commissioner of Health and Human Services Dr. Matilde Castiel to City Manager Eric Batista.

In order to preserve access to care for patients as it intends to move forward in closing its maternity ward in Leominster, UMass Memorial Health in Worcester has released its plan, relying on other health centers, public transit, and ambulances.

Psychemedics in Acton, a hair testing for drug abuse firm, has changed leaders. Brian Hullinger officially became president and CEO on Thursday, following the retirement of longtime leader Ray Kubacki.

Six percent of workers who filed workers' compensation claims for catching COVID-19 between March 2020 and September 2021 have also received care for Long COVID, according to a new report.