Health Care

For now, the administrator of a Worcester-based group adult foster care company has avoided a one year jail sentence after pleading guilty to charges related to a $1.6-million MassHealth defrauding scheme.

Primary care physicians and the Senate's health care point person are questioning a proposed partnership between Mass General Brigham and CVS that the two companies say will address gaps in comprehensive primary care access.

Each day, more than 2,000 patients remain stuck in hospitals even after being cleared to leave.

As President Donald Trump targets the Community Services Block Grant program he alleges has been "hijacked" for other purposes, Bay Staters argued that the funding provides critical support for housing assistance, child care, heating aid and more.

The state's existing portfolio of long-term facilities includes 348 nursing facilities, with 39,899 beds; 273 assisted living facilities, with 19,093 beds; and 58 rest homes, with 2,002 beds. Massachusetts previously had 74 rest homes, for a total of 2,404 beds, in 2015. 

Lifeward had a second executive join its C-suite transition in two months as the Marlborough-based medical device has selected its new CFO.

Both will serve two-year terms for the advocacy group supporting mental health and addiction services throughout the commonwealth. 

Health officials are rolling out regulations to implement a 2024 law legalizing the use of certified medication aides in long-term care facilities, rules that supporters say will help address severe staffing shortages but that nurses are still wary could put patients at risk.

DPH and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a joint, unannounced investigation into Saint Vincent in January.

After 10 years serving as City of Worcester’s Health & Human Services Commissioner, Dr. Matilde Castiel is calling it a career, sort of.