Framingham

Companies are sounding the alarm on the state’s inconsistent product safety testing standards.

The saga over the proposed closure of the Leominster maternity center is part of a national struggle beset by doctor shortages, rising maternal morbidity, and money-losing operations.

Texas-based Tenet Healthcare, the company that owns and operates Saint Vincent Hospital and MetroWest Medical Center, has expanded the scope of its CEO’s role.

Yvonne Spicer, who was mayor of Framigham from 2018 to 2022, has been appointed as executive director of Life Science Cares Boston

Framingham-based healthcare technology company Definitive Healthcare has acquired Connecticut healthcare provider analytics firm Populi for $52 million.

Boston utility company Eversource has begun drilling 90 bore holes, each 600-700 feet deep, as part of its effort to connect 140 customers in Framingham with geothermal energy.

Framingham clean energy firm Ameresco completed an acquisition of a Los Alamitos, California microgrid. The system, located at a joint military forces training base, has a microgrid, solar panels, and battery energy storage. 

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.

Local unemployment rates are up approximately half a percentage point across Central Massachusetts labor markets.

Despite progress in the lower rungs of higher education’s leadership ladder, women are not equally represented in the industry’s top executive spot.