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UMass Memorial Health Moves Longtime Primary Care Practice to Shrewsbury
UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center Lands on Newsweek’s National Hospital List
Addressing a Critical Need in South County, UMass Memorial Opens New Primary Care Facility in Charlton
Addressing a Critical Need in South County, UMass Memorial Opens New Primary Care Facility in Charlton
UMass Memorial Gets Second $30K Gift For Foster Care Clinic
Children in foster care face significant educational challenges and the support of United Way of Central Massachusetts helps us provide critical services to a vulnerable population.
Justin Precourt | President, UMass Memorial Medical Center
UMass Memorial sounds alarm amid surge in serious e-bike crashes
New Primary Care Providers Coming To Worcester County UMass Memorial Site
The addition of four new primary care providers and our new Charlton location at Trolley Crossing will help meet the healthcare needs of community members by making it easier to access timely, personalized care close to where they live and work.
Edward Moore | UMass Memorial Health – Harrington Hospital
The Scope of Long COVID Is Bigger Than We Think, Mass. Researchers Say
Not having a diagnostic test is a big limitation. Most of the diagnosis is symptom-based.
Sandeep Jubbal, MD | Infectious Diseases | UMass Memorial Health
Hospital at Home Shows Positive Results for Medicaid Patients: 8 Notes
This study shows that hospital at home can deliver the same level of safety and quality, while allowing patients to heal where they’re most comfortable.
Constantinos Michaelidis | Medical Director, Hospital at Home Program
Kudos for Milford Regional...
Milford Regional caregivers’ careful diligence in prioritizing patient safety is emphasized with this important recognition. As we continually assess improvements to ensure a continued culture of safety at Milford Regional, a grade ‘A” is not something we take lightly.
Peter B. Smulowitz, MD, MPH | Chief Medical Officer, UMass Memorial Health – Milford Regional Medical Center
AI Being Used in Massachusetts To Give Patients a More Timely Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
A lot of times you don’t see anything. It’s hard to see anything visually in the data, but there are differences in the image that the machine learning can pick up on.
Gennady Gelman, MD | Family Medicine, UMass Memorial Health
‘Avenue of Hope’: New Treatment Being Tested in Worcester Shows Promise for Postpartum Depression
For some women, postpartum depression can cast a long shadow over what they thought would be the happiest time of their life. “I should be happy, why am I not happy?”, said Shalea Niles of Dorchester as she described how she felt after the birth of her third child. “It kind of put me in a space...
Baby blues usually happen in those first two weeks following a delivery. If they extend beyond two weeks, then we get more concerned about postpartum depression.
Dr. Tiffany Moore Simas | Obstetrics & Gynecology
What Precision Care AI Looks Like at Enterprise Scale — 4 Takeaways
With an estimated 140,000 health AI companies competing for health system attention, the challenge for executives is no longer whether to adopt AI but how to evaluate which platforms will deliver at scale.
Shhhh: Quieter Hospitals Offer Benefits to Inpatients
The word is out in the medical community that quieter hospital environments offer significant benefits to inpatients.
Improved sleep environments can additionally reduce the need for sedative medications, anxiolytics, or antipsychotics, particularly in older adults who are vulnerable to delirium
Bhavin Patel, DO | Hospitalist
A $250M Cost: Insurers Say Prior Authorizations Reduce Unnecessary Care. Hospital Leaders Say New Reforms Could Ease the Administrative Burden.
Prior authorizations cost UMass Memorial Health up to $250 million annually, said President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson. That might be an underestimate, he said.