Heywood Healthcare, the Gardner-based operator of two of Central Massachusetts’ largest hospitals, is on the hunt for a new chief medical officer as the system’s current CMO Dr. Frank Sweeney is set to retire.
Greater Worcester has finally received its September unemployment rate, after the federal government shutdown left states unsure whether they would receive their monthly unemployment data at all.
Home healthcare provider Care Central VNA & Hospice has selected a professor at UMass Chan Medical School’s Springfield campus to serve as the Gardner-based organization’s new hospice medical director.
A bill allowing pharmacists in Massachusetts to dispense life-saving insulin in emergencies has been stuck in the State House since 2019, and advocates are frustrated after running into legislative dead ends for six years.
Unemployment held steady or decreased in August throughout Central Massachusetts as the region experiences vacillating employment trajectories that change direction on a monthly basis.
Medical and defense optics manufacturer Precision Optics is relocating its corporate headquarters from Gardner to a larger site at the King Street Common mixed-use development in Littleton.