Health Care

The Producto Group, parent of Shirley manufacturer ThermoFab, named Jennifer Brochu as its new chief financial officer, after tapping a new CEO and chief operating officer earlier in 2023.

Worcester’s UMass Memorial Medical Center has been ranked as the fourth best hospital in Massachusetts by the U.S. News and World Report.

Blupoint Healthcare has opened a new intake center at its Whitinsville location. The Central Intake Center will streamline the admission process for potential patients seeking respite care, residential care, and rehabilitation services.

The Worcester metropolitan area ranked 16th nationally in a 2023 SmartAsset study of the most expensive places to raise a child.

Maryland-based Thomas Park Investments purchased a Reliant Medical Group-anchored medical building in Southborough.

Definitive Healthcare completed layoffs Monday of approximately 4% of its workforce, impacting more than 40 employees. This is its second round of layoffs d in 2023.

BRIDGE Innovation and Business Development, the commercialization hub at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has selected 13 faculty-led research projects to fund with $2 million in capital.

Efforts to subject the Legislature to outside scrutiny, reform the role of standardized MCAS tests, allow cities and towns to regulate rent levels, and reshape rights and benefits for on-demand drivers took steps Wednesday toward potentially being decided by voters in 2024.

Hologic reported a 74.6% revenue decrease for its COVID-19 related diagnostics testing in its third quarter as compared to last year, indicating a significant drop-off in demand for COVID testing.

Allurion Technologies, a Natick-based medtech company with a weight-loss platform, has gone public, with its first day on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.