At just 18 years old, Adelaide “Addie” Greenwald — an Uxbridge native and Assumption University student — experienced a heart attack. Addie credits her skilled and compassionate cardiac teams at Milford Regional Medical Center and UMass Memorial Medical Center with saving her life and helping her return to normal activities and levels of energy. Now she wants to share her story to bring awareness to women’s heart health.
Francesco Aiello, MD, and Sandra Aiello, CNP, have been UMass Memorial Health caregivers for more than a decade. With the vision and support of their children, John and Maeve, the Aiello family is giving back to the institution where their family has both given and received care. Every holiday season, the family makes a donation to the UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center for staff to put towards their area of greatest need.
Sarah and Dix Davis journey with UMass Memorial Health started in 1970 when their oldest son was born at UMass Memorial Medical Center – Memorial Campus. Their second son was also born there in 1972, and then their daughter Margaret was born six weeks premature in 1977. Margaret spent two weeks in the UMass Memorial NICU where she received life-saving care.
The Teddy Bear Clinic will teach children of all ages about health and safety through interactive booths.
Erika Wilkinson, a longtime, dedicated supporter of Marlborough Hospital, passed away at the age of 96 after a life of service to others. She left a generous bequest to the hospital that had cared for her family since 1953.
In March 2019, Emily Foster’s life was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer.
Emily—who is a Global Brand Ambassador for her family’s company, Goslings Rum—was born and raised in Bermuda but splits her time between Bermuda, the United Kingdom, and Canada. She first underwent chemotherapy and surgery in the UK and then a smaller procedure in Canada. Emily’s health seemed to be under control for the time being.
Then the world shut down when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Lauren Murphy is preparing to run the Boston Marathon and she’s got her husband Brian Rettger by her side.
In 2023, Kweku Akese was a senior at the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science, thinking about college and making his mark in the world. Inspired by his passion for biochemistry and a personal connection to sickle cell disease—a disorder that alters the shape of red blood cells and blocks blood flow, leading to intense pain, organ damage, and other serious complications—Kweku wanted to make a difference in the lives of youth affected by this condition.
In the United States, nearly 90,000 people are currently on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, and the wait time average is three to five years. While finding a living donor is an often long and arduous process, this ended up being the easy part of the health journey for Nancy Hursey, a former nurse who was told she needed a kidney transplant amid living with diabetes and after two years on dialysis.