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April 14, 2021 - Worcester Business Journal
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission will not conduct a detailed review of market costs for a proposed merger between UMass Memorial Health and Harrington Hospital, based on preliminary findings the deal isn't likely to lead to additional costs for patients.
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April 14, 2021 - Cheddar News
Eric Dickson, MD, President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health was interviewed about the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine.
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April 13, 2021 - Mass Live
The partnership between UMass Memorial Health and the Worcester Red Sox aims at improving the well-being of fans entering Polar Park this year.
On Tuesday, the organizations announced several programs at the ballpark that will bolster fans’ health focused around improving eating habits and exercise.
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April 12, 2021 - https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/04/12/mobile-vaccine-clinic-covid-worcester
More than one and a half million people in Massachusetts are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus
But with an uptick in positive coronavirus tests and the spread of variants, there's increased urgency to get shots administered to as many people possible, as quickly as possible. So the state and several health groups are taking vaccines directly into the community and setting up mobile vaccine clinics.
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March 30, 2021 - Spectrum 1 News
A new technique is helping doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center treat men with prostate cancer and improve their quality of life.
UMass began performing the robotic Retzius-sparing prostatectomy within the last three months, but urology specialist Dr. Igor Sorokin says the technology has been around for a few years and first became popular in Europe.
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March 30, 2021 - Telegram & Gazette
UMass Memorial Health Care is rebranding itself as UMass Memorial Health and adopting the tagline “the relentless pursuit of healing,” which CEO Dr. Eric Dickson said reflects the organization’s focus on caring not just for the health of the individual but the health of the community.
“We feel it better tells the story of who we are and better tells the promise of what we are going to deliver to people in the coming years,” Dickson said in an interview Tuesday. “As we evolve, the brand had to evolve with us.”
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March 27, 2021 - Telegram & Gazette
Worcester Academy sophomore Justin Mohaghegh of Holden tested positive for COVID-19 in January. Before getting back to playing his sports — basketball and golf — he had to complete the school’s five-stage protocol.
It's a process familiar to all Worcester Academy student-athletes who contract the coronavirus.
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March 24, 2021 - New York Times
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s new air sampler can help monitor for airborne pathogens, and signals renewed interest in bioaerosol surveillance.
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March 23, 2021 - Mashable India
Mindfulness apps are ubiquitous. But mindfulness and mindfulness meditation, a form of meditation that focuses on present moment experiences, existed long before smartphones arrived on the scene, and have been used to soothe humans in stressful times well before COVID-19.
Ginny Wholley, a certified mindfulness-based stress reduction instructor at UMass Memorial Health Care Center for Mindfulness, defines mindfulness as an awareness that comes from the practice of paying attention with a kind and non-judgmental attitude.
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March 22, 2021 - Worcester Business Journal
When the professionals who would become WBJ’s 2021 Business Leaders of the Year started their years anew in January 2020, they could have had no idea the past 15 months would end up like they did. Yet, each of them in their own way, found a path for their organizations to thrive.
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March 19, 2021 - Spectrum 1 News
Central Massachusetts has not seen a drastic spike in COVID-19 cases since the state started reopening and for residents hoping things go back to normal soon, it's good news.
But UMass Memorial Health Care CEO, Dr. Eric Dickson, says the region isn't out of the woods yet.
"Our biggest concern now is the UK variant that is clearly in central Massachusetts and on the rise" he said.
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March 18, 2021 - Spectrum 1 News
As the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prepares to enter the next phase of the reopening plan on Monday, health care leaders from throughout the state play a major role in Governor Baker's decision making process.
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March 18, 2021 - Spectrum 1 News
As the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prepares to enter the next phase of the reopening plan on Monday, health care leaders from throughout the state play a major role in Governor Baker's decision making process.
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March 17, 2021 - WGBH
Every adult over the age of 16 will be eligible for a coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts starting on April 19. But in a rollout already steeped in problems, many are concerned that opening up eligibility more may further disenfranchise communities already hit hard by the virus.
Dr. Eric Dickson, president and CEO of UMass Memorial Healthcare, says that making sure vaccines get into the arms of the most vulnerable benefits everyone.
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March 15, 2021 - Worcester Business Journal
As a military veteran, it may be a natural comparison for Dr. Eric Dickson to make a war analogy to the coronavirus pandemic he, UMass Memorial Health Care, and the entire Central Massachusetts region are starting to emerge from after a nearly year-long fight.
“We’re approaching V-Day,” Dickson said, referring to the day World War II ended. “We’re feeling that the end of this is near.”
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March 14, 2021 - WCVB Channel 5
The COVID-19 field hospital inside Worcester's DCU Center is preparing to go into hibernation.
UMass Memorial Medical Health Care, which runs the field hospital, has been preparing to discharge the COVID-19 patients who are still recovering at the facility since Wednesday.
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March 14, 2021 - Telegram & Gazette
The personal stories began taking shape a year ago, backdropped by an unfolding pandemic.
There was much to tell. Stories of heartache, of illness, of death. Stories of changed routines, of working from home, of no school.
Before long, as weeks turned to months, the stories had to be reworked and updated.
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March 12, 2021 - WCVB Channel 5
Dr. Robert Finberg, of UMass Medical School, answers questions about vaccine supply and distribution.
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March 12, 2021 - Spectrum 1 News
It was a press briefing a year ago on Sunday which started it all.
In an interview March 14, 2020, City Manager Ed Augustus said, "Things are literally changing by the hour. We're continuing to monitor those situations, guidance from the state and federal government, as well as folks who are being tested."
The City had just confirmed it's first case of coronavirus. Thousands would follow in Worcester, millions worldwide.
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March 12, 2021 - Telegram & Gazette
Esther Haidas, a phlebotomist in the outpatient lab at UMass Memorial Medical Center - Memorial Campus, was bombarded with email updates about the coronavirus the week before the shutdown. Soon COVID-19 became a part of everyone's vocabulary.
