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Health Care

  • Opponents of psychedelics decriminalization form campaign, cite home grow provision as concern

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service May 3, 2024

    A new campaign chaired by a Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon will oppose a potential ballot question seeking to decriminalize some psychedelic substances.

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service May 3, 2024
  • DPH extends use of hospital temporary beds amidst capacity challenges

    Alison Kuznitz May 3, 2024

    Overburdened Massachusetts hospitals are allowed through next April to keep using temporary beds to bolster their capacity to care for patients.

    Alison Kuznitz May 3, 2024
  • Hologic to acquire UK-based breast cancer tech manufacturer for $310M

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 30, 2024

    Hologic, a Marlborough-based medical device manufacturer, is expanding its product catalog through the planned $310-million acquisition of Endomagnetics. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 30, 2024
  • More than 350,000 dropped from MassHealth since April 2023

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 30, 2024

    On the verge of completing a year-long process to reassess eligibility for every member, the MassHealth public insurance program has now cut more than 350,000 people from its rolls since last April.

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 30, 2024
  • WBJ names the Power 100, the most influential Central Mass. professionals in 2024

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024

    In this first-time expansion of the previous power players list, WBJ names the professionals in Central Massachusetts who most effectively wield their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and community.

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Kurt Isaacson

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Kurt Isaacson and Spectrum Health Systems stand at the forefront of treating the rising problem of addiction.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Mary Craig Ritter

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Today, Ritter plans products and pricing fitting with Fallon’s ever-increasing focus on serving vulnerable populations. Fallon has 200,000+ members, making it a small but important link in the Mass. health plan market.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Amie Shei

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Amie Shei’s career centers the health of the Central Massachusetts population, especially amongst those in disenfranchised communities.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Girish Navani

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Not only an innovator, Navani is something of a gatekeeper as eClinicalWorks and most other large technology companies move to incorporate artificial intelligence into their products, advocating for a measured approach making AI a tool, not an

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Debra Maddox

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Central Massachusetts born and educated, Debra Maddox has a firm hand on the pulse of the people she and her team serve at the Multicultural Wellness Center, founded in 2005.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jessica Sassi

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Now, the next generation of the organization falls to Vincent Strully’s hand-picked successor: Jessica Sassi, who took over the top leadership role in 2023.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Lou Brady

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    After the coronavirus pandemic threw an already strained healthcare system into chaos, Lou Brady appears to have pulled FHCW out of a deep dive and turned around a once-tenuous financial position.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Dominique Muldoon

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Muldoon paid one of the highest prices in standing up for what she believed in: She lost her job.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Jessica Pepple

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    RFK Community Alliance’s hire of Jessica Pepple into a newly created top leadership position is a model for how to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into an organizational culture.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Dr. Michael Collins

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Under Collins' leadership, the UMass Chan footprint has grown, making space for cutting-edge research, and new partnerships are bringing students to valuable training sites in other parts of the state.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Steve Kerrigan

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    Just three years after joining the health center, Kerrigan reported in his 2022 “From the Desk” letter it had provided care to a then record-breaking 31,356 patients in 85 languages, issuing 137,707 prescriptions.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

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Should Massachusetts do more to encourage outdoor cannabis cultivation?
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The overwhelming majority of legal Massachusetts cannabis is grown in indoor cultivation facilities, where quality and product safety is easier to control, but these facilities draw large amounts of energy, particularly for lighting and HVAC systems. The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission offers perks to outdoor growers, with expedited business license application reviews and lower fees. The CCC has talked about adding additional perks for outdoor growing, such as speciality sustainability labels for their products, but none of those proposals have garnered significant consideration. Of the 130 licensed marijuana growers, 25 grow outdoors.