Bank of America awarded funding to UMass Memorial Health to expand the North Pavilion at UMass Memorial Medical Center...

Two years ago, the Massachusetts Legislature gave state health officials a pointed directive: Tell us how to create a system of professional legal guardians to help the thousands of people who cannot make medical decisions for themselves, some of whom languish in hospitals unnecessarily.

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) announced last Thursday that it is providing $1.38 million in total funding to seven acute care hospitals across the state.

Eric Alper, SVP and chief quality officer at UMass Memorial Health, says the hospital has deployed 40 AI models despite limited resources, prioritizing use cases that improve care delivery, efficiency and financial sustainability.

Addressing what is a critical need in Southern Worcester County, UMass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital recently opened a primary care facility in Charlton. The facility, located on Trolley Square Road, offers twenty-one exam rooms, clinical workspace and new offices for four primary care doctors.

UMass Memorial Health has received its second $30,000 gift from United Way of Central Massachusetts to support services for children entering foster care.

UMass Memorial Medical Center is seeing three to five e-bike injuries weekly compared to roughly one every week during the same period last year.

UMass Memorial Health – Harrington Hospital is adding four primary care providers at its Trolley Crossing location in Charlton this summer.

Dr. Sandeep Jubbal, an infectious disease specialist at UMass Memorial Health, said he still treats new patients seeking care for long COVID, and some whose symptoms have lingered for years.

Medicaid recipients who received hospital-at-home care in Massachusetts had strong outcomes, a new study found. Here are eight things to know from the May study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: