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Veterans nonprofit buys former Catholic rest home for $2.6M for veterans housing
June 2, 2025Leominster will soon be the site of a new veterans housing facility run by a Devens-based nonprofit.
June 2, 2025
Every 36 minutes: Amid rising rates of abuse, Central Mass. healthcare providers are pushing state legislation to make hospitals safer for workers
Updated: June 2, 2025Every 36 minutes a Massachusetts hospital worker faces either an act of violence or threat.
Updated: June 2, 2025
UMass Memorial shutters two clinics, pauses non-clinical hiring
May 30, 2025UMass Memorial Health has implemented a system-wide hiring pause on all non-clinical, non-patient-facing roles and shuttered two behavioral health clinics.
May 30, 2025
Up to 100K could lose Mass. Health Connector coverage under new U.S. House-approved bill
May 30, 2025Tens of thousands of Bay Staters could lose subsidized health insurance through the Massachusetts Health Connector and premiums could rise for most other members under a suite of reforms in the U.S. House-approved reconciliation bill that Gov. Maura
May 30, 2025
MHA: GOP's big beautiful bill puts MassHealth funding at risk
May 28, 2025While the impacts of the U.S. House GOP's tax and funding cuts legislation come into focus, the group that represents the state's hospitals said this week it is closely monitoring provider tax policy for potential changes that could make it even
May 28, 2025
Take WBJ's 2025 Midyear Economic Forecast survey
May 27, 2025The first five months of 2025 have been a wild ride for the economy. How has your outlook changed for the rest of the year?
May 27, 2025
Arch Therapeutics files for bankruptcy, as company accepts stalking horse bid
May 27, 2025Two months after its CFO abruptly resigned, Arch Therapeutics, a Framingham-based biotechnology company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
May 27, 2025
DPH presses Framingham Union for more answers regarding upcoming NICU closure
May 22, 2025DPH’s request comes after the state agency deemed Framingham Union’s NICU an essential service following the hospital’s April announcement that it planned to shutter its 12-bassinet unit by June 10.
May 22, 2025
Senate moves forward to cap prescription drug prices
May 22, 2025After nearly 90 minutes of debate about financial burdens on patients, pharmaceutical industry lobbying, and legislative process, the Senate voted 34-5 to attach to the budget policy reforms authored by Health Care Financing Committee Co-chair Sen.
May 22, 2025
Developer buys two Sturbridge properties to construct urgent care facility
May 19, 2025The project was given site plan approval by the Town of Sturbridge Planning Board on Jan. 14.
May 19, 2025
Lifeward replaces retiring CEO with former Medtronic executive
May 19, 2025Grant served in various leadership roles at Medtronic from 2004 to 2023.
May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Stephen Kerrigan
Updated: May 19, 2025Few leaders in Central Massachusetts fight as fiercely to provide health care regardless of an individual’s ability to pay like Kerrigan, and this past year, he set records.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Victor Ambros
Updated: May 19, 2025In October, Ambros was awarded the Nobel Prize, marking only the second time anyone from Central Massachusetts won the prestigious honor.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Dr. Cherise Hamblin
Updated: May 19, 2025As maternal morbidity rates continue to rise throughout the state, Hamblin has become one of the region’s most ardent advocates for the interrelated causes of addressing Black maternal health and diversifying healthcare professionals.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Girish Navani
Updated: May 19, 2025Girish leads the charge in both healthcare IT innovation and growth in Central Massachusetts.
Updated: May 19, 2025
2025 Power 100: Manny Lopes
Updated: May 19, 2025In July, Lopes stepped into his role leading Central Massachusetts’ seventh largest health insurer and one of its largest employers, mere months before the President Donald Trump Administration began mulling over plans to cut billions in Medicaid
Updated: May 19, 2025
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