NEWSROOM

Your source for inspiring patient stories, the latest news on innovations in health care, grants and funding we receive, and more!
Latest News
| Boston Business Journal | In the Media, Innovations, Patient Care

Ticking Clock for Home Care

Hospital at home programs have been a bright spot in the healthcare landscape for the past several years. They allow patients to receive inpatient-level care at their homes instead of a traditional hospital.

[Expiration of the waiver would be a] huge step backwards in terms of our capacity challenges in the state, in terms of health equity, in terms of how we care for rural populations in particular.

Constantinos Michaelidis, MD | Medical Director, Hospital at Home
Learn More about Ticking Clock for Home Care
| Spectrum News 1 | COVID, In the Community, In the Media, Innovations, Patient Care

'We had to:' UMass Memorial Health President and CEO says changes to healthcare were a 'must' to fight off COVID pandemic

COVID-19 brought on a lot of new challenges for people both in and out of healthcare. Things like mask wearing and social distancing became the norm. But surprising enough, the virus resulted in some positive changes. Changes to healthcare some never even imagined.

Now we use video interpreters all the time. But we also now became much more comfortable delivering care through video. So now, we can have a paramedic go into the home through our mobile integrated health program, do labs, do a physical exam on the patient, put an iv in, deliver fluid, deliver medication.

Dr. Eric Dickson | President and CEO, UMass Memorial Health
Learn More about 'We had to:' UMass Memorial Health President and CEO says changes to healthcare were a 'must' to fight off COVID pandemic
| Medscape | Human Interest, In the Media, Patient Care

Managing Mental Illness in Pregnancy and Postpartum: What to Know

For women with, or at a risk for, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or other psychiatric conditions, managing mental health during pregnancy and postpartum presents unique challenges.

We have very clear data that tells us that if a pregnant or postpartum individual doesn’t get the treatment that they need, if they’re experiencing a mood or anxiety disorder, that can have a negative impact on themselves and on their babies.

Nancy Byatt, DO | Perinatal psychiatrist with the Women’s Mental Health at UMass Memorial Medical Center
Learn More about Managing Mental Illness in Pregnancy and Postpartum: What to Know
| Spectrum News 1 | COVID, Human Interest, In the Media

UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Eric Dickson reflects on 5 years since the start of the COVID pandemic

Local hospitals were filled quite literally to the brim with sick patients for months on end. Field hospitals even needed to be opened. Creating challenges some healthcare leaders never fathomed.

As I think about COVID, I think about how every health care system, how every governmental agency came together and worked together to solve, really, the biggest healthcare crisis of our time.

Dr. Eric Dickson, President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health
Learn More about UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Eric Dickson reflects on 5 years since the start of the COVID pandemic
| The Worcester Guardian | In the Media, Innovations, Patient Care

Hospital at Home program assists new mothers, patients in need

Imagine recovering from a medical condition in the comfort of your own bed—no noisy beeping, no buzzing machines, no hospital roommates, and no midnight interruptions.

It is not uncommon for our medical centers to have up to 70 patients boarding in our ER department waiting for a bed. It’s not an experience we want for our loved ones or ourselves.

Constantinos Michaelidis | Medical Director of the Hospital at Home program
Learn More about Hospital at Home program assists new mothers, patients in need
Showing 1 - 12 of 446 articles

Donate to UMass Memorial Health

Learn more about giving to UMass Memorial Health