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During a turbulent labor market, Kait Urlaub's leadership proved essential to workforce stabilization and growth at UMass Memorial Health, the largest Central Mass. healthcare system with 20,000+ employees.

Epic named 64 health systems to its Honor Roll for 2025. The EHR vendor provides financial incentives to Honor Roll members for meeting certain benchmarks, such as ease of use, patient experience and staying up to date.

More than 300 hospitals and health systems were among the organizations recognized on Forbes’ 2025 list of America’s Best-In-State Employers. The list was developed in partnership with market research firm Statista, which surveyed more than 160,000 employees working at organizations with at least 500 U.S.-based workers

One expert warns that kids who have trouble seeing may not realize because they have a vision issue, because that’s all they know.

Since becoming president and CEO of Joplin, Mo.-based Freeman Health System in April, Matthew Fry has held front-line listening sessions he described as invaluable. A recurring theme quickly emerged: The organization needed clear direction.

Health care organizations are facing a major new disruption: the recently passed reconciliation bill, H.R. 1. Its potential impact, such as deep Medicaid cuts, stricter eligibility requirements, rising administrative complexity, and shrinking coverage, promises to reshape the health care landscape, especially for providers filling a safety net role in their communities.

Leanne Lacroix went to bed and woke up with severe ringing in her ear just over a year ago. The challenges it brought to everyday life were scary. Lacroix was referred to said Dr. Divya Chari, the director of UMass Memorial Health's Cochlear Implant program.

The Bay State is already struggling with a primary care provider crisis, and the head of the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts sees an increasingly grim road ahead if current trends persist. 

The following patient safety experts are unwavering champions for patient harm reduction, disease management and disaster preparedness. Representing various roles across hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies, they all share a common goal of keeping patients safe and satisfied.

Some illnesses announce themselves immediately, like that first sneeze before flu symptoms really crash into you, while others can sneak up on you, like when you wake up in the morning with a raging sore throat after feeling just fine the day before. But these sneaky bouts of sickness aren't confined to the occasional virus or infection.

Marlborough Hospital broke ground on an expansion project that will add 10 new beds to its existing 13 in its emergency department, according to WBJ. The construction will also add seven thousand square feet to the department.

Marlborough Hospital has broken ground on an expansion project to double the size of its emergency department as the hospital works to meet the mounting needs of the community.