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UMass Memorial Health and UMass Chan Medical School are partners and leaders in quality, safe patient care, education, innovative research and community service in the Central New England region.

UMass Memorial Health is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts with more than 16,000 employees and nearly 2,000 doctors, many of whom are members of UMass Memorial Medical Group. Our member hospitals include UMass Memorial Health - Harrington HospitalUMass Memorial Health - HealthAlliance-Clinton HospitalUMass Memorial Health - Marlborough Hospital and UMass Memorial Medical Center.

UMass Chan Medical School, the state’s first and only public academic health sciences center, educates physicians, scientists and advanced practice nurses to heal, discover, teach and care, with compassion. We share a mission of advancing the health and well-being of the people of the Commonwealth and the world through pioneering advances in education, research and health care delivery.

Quality, Safe Patient Care

The clinical care services and academic programs of UMass Memorial Health and UMass Chan Medical School help people across the Central Massachusetts region lead healthier lives. The physicians and other health care professionals who treat patients at UMass Memorial and teach and conduct research at the Medical School are blazing a path toward more effective and efficient health care, with a compassionate touch. For example, the UMass Memorial Health Cancer ServicesDiabetes ServicesHeart and Vascular Center, and Musculoskeletal Center deliver seamless programs of quality, safe, patient-focused care across the health care system. Developed to meet the needs of the community, the centers offer an experienced team approach to specialized treatment, advanced therapies and breakthrough clinical trials.

Innovative Research

UMass Memorial Health member hospitals are involved in cutting-edge research and clinical trials to help improve medical innovations of our future. Find more information about research and training initiatives by learning more about services and treatments. In addition, learn more UMass Chan Medical School’s residency and fellowship programs by visiting the Office of Graduate Medical Education website, and the UMass Memorial Medical Center’s pharmacy residencies.

In 2010, UMass Chan Medical School was awarded a prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health to create an academic home for clinical and translational science across all five UMass campuses and in partnership with UMass Memorial Health. The UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science places UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial among an elite consortium of 60 nationally prominent academic medical centers working to more efficiently move laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research, and to train a new generation of researchers.

UMass Chan Medical School is one of the fastest-growing research institutions in the United States. Federal and private research grants and contracts at the Medical School rose from about $2 million in 1977 to more than $240 million in fiscal year 2013.