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9-Year-Old Girl with Devastating Skin Disorder Lives in Pain: 'I Can't Play on the Playground'
Nine-year-old Tayma Salim loves drawing flowers, playing with her brother, Arslan, and the color pink.
Inside Hospitals' Digital Command Centers
Every 36 minutes: Amid rising rates of abuse, Central Mass. healthcare providers are pushing state legislation to make hospitals safer for workers
With extreme heat warning in effect, experts urge safety for outdoor workers
An extreme heat warning is in effect through Tuesday evening as temperatures soar across New England.
Staying cool during stretch of extreme heat
Extreme heat in Massachusetts means a trip to the spray park for a lot of Worcester families.
'Everyone should get checked:' UMass Memorial Health oncology nurses share their personal tie to cancer
A $250M gap in the safety net: Central Mass. hospitals fight for their financial lives as state's Health Safety Net reaches historic deficit
When an under or uninsured Massachusetts resident requires certain medical treatments, such as many in radiology, psychiatry, or rehabilitation, the cost of their care often falls to the state’s Health Safety Net.
Using AI to support nurses managing ED triage
There's going to be more and more pressure on emergency rooms moving forward, especially as other aspects of our healthcare systems are failing. So, throughput and accuracy are going to be very important through our emergency rooms. And a tool like this will be very beneficial.
Ken Shanahan | MSN, RN, senior director of emergency medicine and behavioral health at UMass Memorial Medical Center
Inside Hospitals' Digital Command Centers
We're collaborating more effectively by being in the same space, and that's allowing us to reduce some of the silos.
Eric Alper, MD | Vice President, Chief Quality and Chief Clinical Informatics Officer
51 hospitals and health systems with great diabetes and endocrinology programs | 2024
Becker’s is excited to spotlight 51 hospitals and health systems recognized for their outstanding diabetes and endocrinology programs.
Every 36 minutes: Amid rising rates of abuse, Central Mass. healthcare providers are pushing state legislation to make hospitals safer for workers
UMass expands AI tool to emergency departments systemwide
UMass Memorial Health has expanded an artificial intelligence–powered clinical decision tool to emergency departments across its network, aiming to support frontline nurses with early sepsis detection and improved patient triage.
‘A blunt force axe’: Mass. Democrats warn of harm to hospitals, health care under Trump budget proposal
The Republican budget bill that passed the House last week would cause health care chaos and a massive transfer of wealth to the rich, Massachusetts’ leading Democrats argued Tuesday as the party mobilized a nationwide bid to derail the legislation.
2025 Power 100: Dr. Eric Dickson
When Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer was about to close in the summer of 2024, Dickson said he was looking into every opportunity possible to support the region left without its most central hospital.
