Plan Your Visit
Patient Resources
In the News
-
November 27, 2024 - The Boston Globe
Lyon’s story is a harrowing one, starting with a car crash last August and leading to a heart attack, a series of surgeries, and months of recovery that may stretch into years. But it’s one where she’s had support every step of the way, from her family to the staff at UMass Memorial Medical Center to the army of physical therapists who have helped guide her down the long road back.
-
November 25, 2024 - Worcester Business Journal
What truthfully drives me more than anything is when I see the impact we can have on the communities that we serve and on the patients and families we serve,” said Justin Precourt, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center.
-
November 25, 2024 - Worcester Business Journal
“There's not many people like Erik,” said Justin Precourt, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. “He works day and night, tirelessly, to help meet the needs of the underserved and the Worcester community.”
-
November 25, 2024 - Worcester Business Journal
The entire sector is facing multiple crises right now (workforce shortages, hospital closures, insurance reimbursement shortfalls, vaccine skepticism, etc.), but it is populated by people who represent the best of us. In the below profiles, you’ll read about how this year’s 12 award winners are making the world a better place as physicians, a dentist, nurses, support staff, and administration. In a world of chaos and uncertainty, they are an inspiration.
-
November 25, 2024 - Worcester Magazine
On a Saturday afternoon at the Worcester Public Library’s main branch, the center of attention was a rubber prop meant to mimic a wounded human limb.
About a dozen people, women and men of all ages, watched as Stop The Bleed instructor Dominick Dunbar wrapped a tourniquet around the prop, demonstrating how to tighten the strap and explaining where to place one in the event of a real injury.
-
November 24, 2024 - Telegram & Gazette
While consumers make a dash for doorbuster deals this Black Friday, David Filar will be running to raise funds for UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center’s Child Life program.Filar, who has lived in Worcester for the last nine years, is embarking on a four-day, 154-mile run across Massachusetts in an effort to raise $15,000 to purchase safe, developmental toys for young hospital patients during the holiday season.
-
November 22, 2024 - Telegram & Gazette
Michelle Krzcuik is a labor and delivery nurse and the head of the Maternity Center's Patient and Family Advisory Council.
-
November 20, 2024 - Telegram & Gazette
Medical experts are stressing that members of the public should be up to date on their vaccines as Massachusetts, including the Worcester area, sees a significant spike in two respiratory illnesses.
One is pertussis, also called whooping cough, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports a fivefold increase statewide in the number of confirmed cases, with 754 so far this year, compared to 115 in the same period last year.
-
November 18, 2024 - Boston Business Journal
At UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, a new program will provide Black women who are giving birth access to culturally tailored and equitable support from a doula.
-
November 12, 2024 - Becker's Hospital Review
Includes UMass Memorial Health Cancer Center in a list of 100 hospital and health systems with great oncology programs.
-
November 4, 2024 - The Gist Healthcare Podcast
Benjamin Hamar, MD, Director of the Maternity Center at UMass Memorial and a member of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division, discuss the new hospital-at-home program for postpartum patients.
-
November 4, 2024 - Itemlive
Volunteer dermatologists from UMass Memorial Medical Center will be screening firefighters from 9 am to 1 pm at the Hahnemann Campus, located at 281 Lincoln Street in Worcester on November 16.
-
November 1, 2024 - Worcester Business JournalUMass Memorial partnership to deliver pediatric care for cleft palates, other craniofacial anomalies
In an effort to boost access to craniofacial care for children, Worcester healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health has teamed up with Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, a California-based medical nonprofit.
-
October 24, 2024 - MassLive
A new building at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester that will offer 72 additional patient beds will be opened at the beginning of next year.
-
October 17, 2024 - Spectrum News 1
A highly contagious respiratory illness is on the rise in Massachusetts. Cases of whooping cough are surging to pre-pandemic levels.
Pertussis is commonly known as whooping cough because of the sound patients make when they cough.
-
September 30, 2024 - The Worcester Guardian
UMass Memorial Health’s new ambulance dubbed “Life Flight 3” is essentially an intensive care unit on wheels.
-
September 27, 2024 - Boston 25 News
12 local nurses in the same ICU unit all recently had babies, all of them boys.
-
September 27, 2024 - The Worcester Guardian
Wendy Lyon considers Stacy Keddy to be her guardian angel and it’s easy to understand why. Keddy came to her aid not once, but twice.
-
September 20, 2024 - Spectrum News 1
A Worcester urologist is sharing his experience of being diagnosed with and battling prostate cancer.
Dr. Mitchell Sokoloff, chair of Urology at UMass Memorial Medical Center, was diagnosed earlier this year and had surgery in April to remove the cancer.
-
September 13, 2024 - HealthDay
Karim Alavi, M.D., M.P.H., from UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and colleagues developed guidelines for evaluation and management of chronic constipation.
The authors present six strong recommendations and seven conditional recommendations.
Exclusive Health Care Provider for the Worcester Red Sox.