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UMass MemUMass Memorial Health program gives new nurses hands-on experience
Giving new nurses the first-hand experiences they need is the goal of UMass Memorial Medical Center’s Graduate Residency Program.
Advocates unveil plans to bolster abortion access for influx of women seeking abortions from out-of-state
With abortion rights threatened by an imminent Supreme Court ruling, Massachusetts advocates on Friday unveiled a broad agenda to protect and expand reproductive services to accommodate patients from the Bay State and beyond.
Heywood Hospital in talks to join UMass Memorial Health
Heywood Hospital is looking to join the UMass Memorial Health system, a move that would bring the two-hospital organization into the growing Worcester-based health system.
Number of COVID-19 cases up in Central Mass., but hospitalizations are down
WORCESTER, Mass. - COVID-19 cases have been on the rise in Central Massachusetts.
How hospitals are breaking down data silos to improve patient care
That’s something Dr. Eric Alper, senior vice president, chief clinical informatics officer and chief quality officer at UMass Memorial Health, is keeping a close eye on.
Heywood Healthcare of Gardner could join UMass Memorial. How will it affect patients?
Heywood Healthcare and UMass Memorial Health have started the process of forming an affiliation that would bring Heywood under the UMass Memorial umbrella.
COVID case continue their drastic drop from January’s highs
“No one expected it to be this bad and last for so long,” said Richard Ellison, MD, an infectious disease specialist at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
Mass General Brigham ads touting expansion are ruffling feathers
“It is often the case that whoever has the most cash can buy market share,” said Dr. Eric Dickson, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health, which has hospitals in the service area where MGB is seeking to expand.
Dropping masks could have an unintended side effect: the return of sniffles and stomach bugs
Two years of wearing masks, avoiding crowds, and trying not to catch COVID-19 had a welcome, if unplanned, byproduct: many people caught fewer colds and stomach bugs. But that could soon change.
Local hospitals make plans for rationing blood in case shortage becomes dire
When to use blood, and how much to transfuse, is not always a given, said Dr. Vishesh Chhibber, the medical director for the transfusion service at UMass Memorial Health in Worcester.
Local company: Data on first RSV treatment looks promising
To have a drug like that on hand would be a “game-changer,” said Lawrence Rhein, MD, MPH, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester and a specialist in pediatric pulmonology.
Epstein-Barr Virus, Mono, and MS: Is a Vaccine Near?
A phase 1 clinical trial for the Moderna vaccine recently kicked off, said Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, the study's principal investigator and chair of biomedical research for UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass.