The Schwartz Center Names Recipients of the 2024 National Compassionate Caregivers of the Year Award
Three NCCY Award Recipients to be honored at the 29th Annual Kenneth B. Schwartz Compassionate Healthcare Dinner
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Massachusetts whooping cough cases surging to pre-pandemic levels
A highly contagious respiratory illness is on the rise in Massachusetts. Cases of whooping cough are surging to pre...
UMass Memorial Health, SMOC celebrate success of new respite program
Tuesday, UMass Memorial Health and nonprofit SMOC, or South Middlesex Opportunity Council, highlighting the impact their...
Community rallies for 26th annual UMass Cancer Walk presented by Harr Toyota
More than 2,000 participants descended on Polar Park in Worcester for the 26th annual UMass Cancer Walk presented by...
'Sickest of the sick': Life Flight 3 for critical care transport
UMass Memorial Health’s new ambulance dubbed “Life Flight 3” is essentially an intensive care unit on wheels.
Breast Cancer Deaths Fall
Dr. A. Gwen Caffrey, an oncologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center and HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital speaks on the...
Here’s what to know about rising rates of breast cancer in young women
Dr. A. Gwen Caffrey, an oncologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center and HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, contributes to...
Guardian Angel: Nurse Saves Local Woman Twice in One Week
Wendy Lyon considers Stacy Keddy to be her guardian angel and it’s easy to understand why. Keddy came to her aid not...
12 local nurses in same ICU unit all give birth to baby boys
12 local nurses in the same ICU unit all recently had babies, all of them boys.
Critical Care
Outstanding Critical Care Services in Central Massachusetts and Beyond
In our intensive care units (ICUs), UMass Memorial Health provides around-the-clock treatments and monitoring to our region’s most medically fragile patients. Board-certified doctors specializing in intensive care (intensivists) use research-based methods and sophisticated technologies to help you heal. ICU nurses watch over you at all hours of the day and night.
Conditions We Monitor and Treat in the ICU
This service is for people recovering from the most severe illnesses and injuries. It’s also for people who have just had...