In the News
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March 14, 2024 - Boston Business Journal
Details UMass Memorial Health’s new hospital at home program for postpartum patients, including quotes from Dr. Taki Michaelidis, the medical director of Hospital at Home.
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March 12, 2024 - Worcester Business Journal
Announced in the summer of 2023, the new facility will offer adult and pediatric primary care, as well as obstetrics and gynecology, urgent care, and laboratory and radiology services.
Opening of the new satellite location follows a January announcement Milford Regional has entered into a definitive agreement of corporate affiliation with UMass Memorial Health in Worcester.
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March 6, 2024 - Healthcare Dive
UMass Memorial Health is working with Google Cloud to use the tech giant’s data and artificial intelligence capabilities to better connect patients with difficult-to-access drugs for conditions like diabetes and heart disease, Healthcare Dive has learned.
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March 5, 2024 - Telegram & Gazette
Dr. Erik Garcia, an internal medicine physician at UMass Memorial Health who works on the hospital’s Road to Care mobile van, discussed the opening of a safe injection site in Worcester at Monday’s Board of Health meeting
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February 21, 2024 - MassLive
UMass Memorial Health has become the first health care system to roll out the 24/7 video and audio translating app designed to help accessibility for patients who speak limited English, are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, called LanguageLine Solutions.
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February 19, 2024 - CBS News Boston
President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health, discusses the administrative burden that is contributing to the difficulties of getting a doctor’s appointment.
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January 29, 2024 - Telegram & Gazette
Emergency rooms statewide are bursting at the seams, with record numbers of patients. It's a situation that is creating challenges to provide safe and effective care.
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January 22, 2024 - Newsweek
UMass Memorial Medical Center has been named one of America's Best Maternity Hospitals for yet another year by Newsweek, earning the top ranking with five ribbons.
This ranking list serves to help expectant parents who face many decisions like selecting a doctor, developing a birth plan and choosing a maternity hospital.
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January 22, 2024 - US News
UMass Memorial Medical Center is proud to earn top recognition as a ‘High Performing’ Maternity Hospital for the third year in a row by U.S. News & World Report.
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January 22, 2024 - Telegram & Gazette
Our caregivers are extra special … you could say “the best!” And, the votes cast by you and readers across the region to determine the "Best of Central Mass" puts us up on top. In fact, UMass Memorial Health has been voted the "Best Place to Work!" The results were announced at this month’s Best of Central Mass Award event celebrated at the DCU Center. Our winning services and providers include:
Best Place to Work: UMass Memorial Health
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January 16, 2024 - Worcester Business Journal
UMass Memorial Health and Milford Regional Medical Center have signed a definitive agreement for corporate affiliation.
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January 11, 2024 - WBUR
Leaders at UMass Memorial Medical Center are hoping that more mask-wearing cuts down on the number of employees catching infections and calling out sick.
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January 2, 2024 - Telegram & Gazette
UMass Memorial Medical Center welcomed its first new arrival of 2024 barely a quarter of an hour into the new year.
Kai'omi Watson was born at 12:15 a.m.
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December 31, 2023 - Telegram & Gazette
As rates of respiratory illness increase throughout the state including COVID-19, UMass Memorial Medical Center will be temporarily requiring masks for employees during every patient encounter and in common areas starting Tuesday.
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December 21, 2023 - Boston 25 News
A new medical resident at UMass Memorial Medical Center has an interesting story to share with his patients.
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December 21, 2023 - Boston 25 News
In Worcester, wastewater COVID-19 is double the national average, and emergency department visits recently tripled at UMass Memorial Health.
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December 4, 2023 - Becker's Hospital Review
Becker's is excited to honor 34 hospitals and health systems with innovation programs…
UMass Memorial Health's culture centers on innovation, with 120,000 staff ideas cultivated from 17,500 employees implemented over the past seven years. The system is an early adopter of technology like Epic EHR and of digital medicine approaches like Hospital at Home.
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December 1, 2023 - Telegram & Gazette
Proposed regulations announced Thursday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could force cities nationwide, including Worcester, to replace all lead pipes that carry drinking water…
“The majority of lead poisoning (in Worcester) is related to lead paint,” said Dr. Angela Beeler, division chief of general pediatrics at UMass Memorial Health.
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December 1, 2023 - 7 News WHDH
As the holiday season arrives, so too comes the season for respiratory illnesses.
Indeed, at UMass Memorial Medical Center, doctors say they’re seeing an uptick in cases of RSV.
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October 28, 2023 - Telegram & Gazette
At UMass Memorial Health, there is enough supply of the 50 milligram dose to last for the next three to four weeks, said Dr. Wendy Timpson, clinical chief of the hospital’s neonatology division.