UMass Memorial Medical Center News

Get Well’s SDOH screening solution allows health systems to identify unmet social needs, integrate responses into their EHR, and navigate patients to appropriate resources.

Using Google Cloud’s AI, machine learning, and data analytics, UMass Memorial Health is building a solution to more accurately identify patients for advanced therapies

UMass Memorial Health Integrates LanguageLine App into Epic EHR

Implementation will increase operational efficiency, accuracy and compliance with translation capabilities to support caregiver and patient experience

 

January 16, 2024

Agreement will enable Milford Regional to advance community-focused mission

Logos for UMass Memorial Health and Milford Regional

 

(Milford, MA) Milford Regional Medical Center, inclusive of Milford Regional Physician Group, and UMass Memorial Health have signed a definitive agreement for a corporate affiliation. The organizations will now seek regulatory approval.

Photo Op – Watch guns get crushed on Sat. at City Welding & Fabrication

 

  • Most 5- and 6-year-olds are strong enough to pull the trigger on the average handgun.*
  • 90 percent of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal, while 4 percent of those not involving a gun are fatal.**

 

  • More than $4.8 million available for mental health services, healthcare and public systems navigation and housing
  • Funding to range from $150,000 to $250,000 per year for 3-year projects and up to $150,000 for 1-year projects
  • A virtual information session will be held on Nov. 14 from 4-5 pm

Mayor Joe Petty presents Dr. Hummel with a key to the city.

Worcester, Mass – His 40 years of caring for the mental health of Worcester youth has earned Clinical Psychologist Richard Hummel, MD, a key to the City of Worcester. In a surprise ceremony on Wednesday, October 4 at the Community Healthlink (CHL) offices, Mayor Joe Petty presented Dr. Hummel with his own key.

Funding from the Healey-Driscoll Administration will support the organization's mental health initiatives for young children

One of 19 children’s hospitals nationally selected for grant to the Healing Power of Play
Grant will extend reach of Child Life, create new Superheroes and support Slime Day

Decision represents a new leadership era, strengthened by diverse perspectives and merit

 

Almost 119,000 COVID-19 tests performed at Stop the Spread site in Worcester

 

Worcester, Mass – UMass Memorial Health will close the COVID-19 testing site on Thursday, March 30, 2023. With a declining demand for testing, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is closing all Stop the Spread testing sites including the testing site on Front Street in Worcester.  

  • More than $2.5 million available for mental health services, food insecurity and housing
  • Funding to range from $15,000 to $150,000

Worcester, Mass – UMass Memorial Health, the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts, has been recognized by the American Medical Association’s 2022 Joy in Medicine™ Health System Recognition Program for its Clinician Experience Office (CXO). Awarded at the Bronze level, UMass Memorial Health is among the 28 organizations across the nation that have been recognized this year for prioritizing and investing in physician well-being.

Worcester, Mass – UMass Memorial Health, the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts, has been recognized by the American Medical Association’s 2022 Joy in Medicine™ Health System Recognition Program for its Clinician Experience Office (CXO). Awarded at the Bronze level, UMass Memorial Health is among the 28 organizations across the nation that have been recognized this year for prioritizing and investing in physician well-being.

Worcester, Mass – UMass Memorial Medical Center has a new mobile vehicle on the road to support addiction services in the Worcester homeless community. Made possible through the kindness of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and his family, the Kraft Community Care in Reach® mobile unit is equipped and staffed to bring substance use disorder (SUD) and other health care services to those who need them, where they need them.

Worcester, Mass – UMass Memorial Medical Center has a new mobile vehicle on the road to support addiction services in the Worcester homeless community. Made possible through the kindness of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and his family, the Kraft Community Care in Reach® mobile unit is equipped and staffed to bring substance use disorder (SUD) and other health care services to those who need them, where they need them.

The "National Recovery Month" event will feature family-friendly activities, education on addiction recovery,
and tips on improving mental health.

 

 

As the pandemic wreaks havoc with adolescent mental health, the CHL C.A.R.E.S. Club helps students with school attendance, their studies, and their relationships.

 

 

In the new model, a CHL crisis clinical team will respond to certain emergency calls alongside police.

 

Worcester, MA (May 16, 2022) – UMass Memorial Health – Community Healthlink (CHL) has been selected by the City of Worcester Health and Human Services Division to be its partner for its new “Mental Health Community Crisis Response Model.” In the new model, a CHL crisis team will be dispatched alongside police to certain emergency calls.

The petition helps to address hospital bed capacity challenges in central Massachusetts

 

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