Greater Worcester

As Massachusetts feels the lasting effects of postponed health care during the COVID pandemic, a new report shows members of the government MassHealth plans spent the highest percentage of their total healthcare spending on both behavioral health services and primary care visits compared to other commercial and government insurance plans.

In an effort to help combat mounting concerns regarding manufacturing facility fire and explosion risks and close the gap between the manufacturing industry and academia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute has introduced the nation’s first master’s degree program in explosion protection engineering. 

Developer Michael Ermani has added six Plantation Street neighborhood properties to his Worcester portfolio.

A pricey fight over whether to increase what employers must pay tipped workers is well underway in Massachusetts.

A year and a half after UMass Chan Medical School received official approval to open a Burlington regional campus, school is in session for the first cohort of 32 medical students at UMass Chan-Lahey, a partnership between the Worcester university and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. 

The discount will apply to courses offered through Clark’s School of Professional Studies’ undergraduate transfer/degree completion program.

“This is not the outcome that any of us had hoped for,” a letter to customers on LL Flooring’s website reads.

For the second consecutive year, Family Health Center of Worcester closed its fiscal year on an upward swing.

Nominations for Worcester Business Journal’s second annual Champions of Health Care Awards are due by midnight on Sept. 13.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the sale of six Steward Health Care hospitals here Wednesday, the most significant milestone yet in a saga that has commanded state government's time, attention and money, and will reshape the health care landscape in eastern Massachusetts.