Central Mass. South

Faced with declining patient discharge numbers and seeing a chance to pare costs that didn’t directly affect patients, UMass Memorial Health Care leaders in Worcester made a tough financial choice to cut much of its executive ranks.

Home sellers in Framingham and Hudson were the big winners this year, according to new data from The Warren Group, the Peabody-based real estate market tracker. Sales volume and prices in both communities have risen for the first 11 months of this year compared to 2018.

Land parcels home to auto dealerships in Auburn and Dudley have sold for more than $10-million combined. The separate deals took place at Prime Ford Auburn and McGee Toyota in Dudley.

After two brothers who serve on the college's board of trustees offered millions more if their donation was matched, Nichols is expanding its Securing a Legacy of Leadership campaign.

The Massachusetts Health Connector Authority board voted unanimously to update its minimum creditable coverage regulations to index deductibles.

More than five decades ago, the first U.S. surgeon general’s report warned against the health hazards of smoking. But it wasn’t until much more recently screening for lung cancer became a reliable tool. The Harrington HealthCare System is on the forefront.

Henry Gauthier has retired from the Oxford laser manufacturer IPG Photonics Corp. board of directors.

Massachusetts is trending toward its long-term greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, but the effort to reduce global emissions is failing, a new report said.

When Spectrum Health Systems got its start half a century ago, the agency was located in Methuen, was named the Challenge House, and the addiction treatment industry thought little of the complex ways people could be helped.

Visitors to the 36 communities it serves increased their spending by 20.3%, beating the Massachusetts average of 17.8%.