Health Care

Dismas House of Massachusetts, Inc. is a nonprofit organization in Greater Worcester helping former prisoners in the area find housing, work, and other reentry needs as they try to piece their lives back together.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Health, Bay State Savings Bank, and more.

WBJ’s Best of Business awards are centered around one idea: referrals.

Worcester-based Seven Hills Foundation on Friday announced Kathleen Jordan, executive vice president and CEO of the organization, would take on leadership of the organization following President David Jordan’s retirement on July 1.

Months after Heywood Healthcare, one of the few Central Massachusetts independent community healthcare systems, entered formal non-binding discussions to affiliate with UMass Memorial Health of Worcester, the merger has been called off.

The settlement resolves claims that Aspen Dental used a series of bait-and-switch tactics on thousands of Massachusetts consumers, according to a Thursday release from the attorney general. 

Isabel Tehan, a 2022 graduate of the Boston University master’s program in journalism and former intern at the Philadelphia Business Journal, has been hired by Worcester Business Journal as its newest staff writer.

After naming two of her Cabinet secretaries Wednesday morning, Gov.-elect Maura Healey made another dent in her hiring Wednesday afternoon with the appointment of an acting secretary of health and human services and the announcement of a series of senior staff positions.

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has named David Lovely to the position of executive vice president and chief claims officer.

Worcester State University and Quinsigamond Community College will split grants totaling $1.6 million intended to build nursing talent and create career pathways in Central Massachusetts.