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Health officials urge people to get a flu shot this season
As the weather gets colder, health officials are advising everyone to get a flu shot.
What Is Weight Bias, And How Does It Affect Medical Care?
Weight bias in medical care settings, which involves health care professionals stigmatizing and judging patients with the disease of obesity, is widespread. Obesity as a disease state leads to dangerous consequences for more than 40% of U.S. adults and 20% of U.S.
UMass Memorial Health Rolls Out the Kraft Community Care in Reach Mobile Unit, Donated by the Robert K. Kraft Family, to Enhance Lifesaving Addiction and Medical Services
Worcester, Mass – UMass Memorial Medical Center has a new mobile vehicle on the road to support addiction services in the Worcester homeless community.
Reproductive Health Commitment
To: All UMass Memorial Health Caregivers
From: Eric Dickson, MD, President and CEO, UMass Memorial Health
Tiffany Moore Simas, MD, MPH, MEd, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Date: June 27, 2022
Q&A: Community Healthlink seeks behavioral health overhaul
In late May, CHL was chosen by the City of Worcester to develop a new model for 911 calls, where CHL crisis teams accompany police officers to certain emergency calls, such as welfare or safety checks.
Community Healthlink C.A.R.E.S Club comes to Worcester East Middle
There is widespread concern about what the pandemic is doing to the mental health of adolescents. In Worcester, a new school-based program aims to address the issue. UMass Memorial Health’s Community Healthlink C.A.R.E.S. Club (Create. Achieve. Respect. Elevate.
From gloves to dye for CT scans, supply shortages continue to stress hospitals
“For a radiologist who has been reading scans and always had IV contrast, to ask them to read without it, they will miss things,” said Dr. Eric Dickson, CEO of UMass Memorial Health. “It’s a horrible shortage. And it has significantly impacted operations.
COVID ICU admissions hit their lowest levels during spring wave
UMass Memorial Health has also delivered approximately 8,000 courses of either Paxlovid or the monoclonal antibody therapy bebtelovimab since last July — almost 2,000 of which were delivered since April 10. It also hosts clinics for Evusheld for patients on Saturdays. Dr.
Politics and the City: Adding layer of mental health care for 911 calls
UMass Memorial Health – Community Healthlink is teaming up with the city’s Health and Human Services and public safety departments to design a program where mental health experts respond with officers to certain emergency calls.
Why this wave of COVID hospitalizations in Mass. is different
Dr. Eric Dickson, chief executive of UMass Memorial Health Care, said these factors make the timing of the latest COVID wave particularly tough.
UMass’ Community Healthlink to partner with Worcester on 911 crisis response
Community Healthlink, an organization within the UMass Memorial Health system that provides mental health services, has been chosen by the City of Worcester to assist a new crisis response model for 911 calls.