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Health Care

  • 2024 Power 100: Dr. Eric Dickson

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    The past 12 months have been full of ups and downs for Dickson and UMass Memorial, while he navigated the turmoil in the healthcare industry.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Carolyn Jackson

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the leader of the largest for-profit hospital system in Central Massachusetts and the region’s second largest hospital, Jackson has been the focus of the ire of politicians and workers for nearly all of 2024.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Marlina Duncan

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    With Duncan’s influence, UMass Chan added a diversity, equity, and inclusion pillar to the university’s IMPACT 2025 strategic plan in 2022, picking 10 of the university’s departments to front new action plans.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 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
  • 2024 Power 100: Udit Batra

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Despite Waters' broad reach, under Udit Batra the company remains closely tied to the local community with its 1,800 employees in Central Massachusetts and is highly regarded as a great place to work.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

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Rising rates of homelessness are affecting Central MA and the state as a whole, leaving cities and towns without enough shelters or public housing to assist those in need. A recent bandaid to the mounting crisis has been to turn empty office spaces into free or subsidized housing, many buildings being left empty due to the post-COVID rise in remote work. Hurdles to office conversions can be daunting, with infrastructure issues making residential building codes difficult to meet, and heightened construction and labor costs adding to the expense.