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2025 Power 100: Mike Cloonan
Updated: May 19, 2025Cloonan is on the frontline of the fight against cystic fibrosis.
Updated: May 19, 2025
What is the nature of power? The Power 100 for 2025 provide their insights
Updated: May 19, 2025“Power is the ability to get people to listen to you, even when you're mostly just talking about beer.” - Sam Hendler, Hendler Family Brewing
Updated: May 19, 2025
State requiring health insurers to curb increases to deductibles and copays next year
May 16, 2025The Division of Insurance flexed its new authority under a 2025 law giving officials heightened scrutiny over health insurance costs.
May 16, 2025
Former CEO of Saint Vincent Hospital lands new role
May 14, 2025After her swift February resignation as CEO of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Carolyn Jackson has assumed a new role as head of another Massachusetts hospital.
May 14, 2025
MassHealth: Proposed Medicaid cuts could leave hundreds of thousands in Mass. uninsured
May 14, 2025The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce set off on a perhaps overnight process of marking up a package of Medicaid, energy and communications policy reforms with the potential for seismic impacts.
May 14, 2025
Framingham Union Hospital considering keeping scaled-down NICU open following public outcry
May 14, 2025Framingham Union Hospital's parent company has said it will consider the public’s request to operate at least a NICU with reduced services.
May 14, 2025
MetroWest Medical Center CEO resigns, replaced by interim leader from Florida
May 13, 2025John Whitlock, CEO of MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, has resigned, putting an end to the tenure of the hospital’s sixth leader since 2017.
May 13, 2025
Trump signing executive order to reduce prescription drug costs
May 12, 2025President Donald Trump is signing an executive order Monday morning that he says will reduce prescription drug prices by 30% to 80% "almost immediately," though White House officials described a more involved process.
May 12, 2025
UMass Chan’s Nobel Prize winner named one of TIME’s most influential health leaders
May 8, 2025Victor Ambros, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has gained international recognition once again as he’s been named one of TIME100’s most influential people in health of 2025.
May 8, 2025
Attorney General sues CVS for allegedly failing to provide discounts to MassHealth members
May 8, 2025Attorney General Andrea Campbell and a few of her peers sued CVS on Wednesday, alleging the pharmacy giant for years failed to provide Medicaid members with access to the same discount as cash-paying customers.
May 8, 2025
Proposed healthcare reform bill aims to boost insurer coverage
May 6, 2025Doctors last week prescribed an insurance reform designed to save primary care practices and ensure patients get timely care. Insurers, though, say another mandate is the last thing Massachusetts needs when health care costs are already a big
May 6, 2025
AdCare tabs Saint Vincent nursing director to be fourth executive leader in two years
May 5, 2025AdCare Hospital has named Laura Ames as its new executive director, marking the Worcester-based detox facility’s second permanent executive direct and fourth leader overall since May 2023.
May 5, 2025
Collaborating through a crisis: More than 50% of Central Mass. ER beds are taken up by mental health patients waiting for treatment
Updated: May 5, 2025In February, Gov. Maura Healey declared Massachusetts is facing a mental health crisis.
Updated: May 5, 2025-
Mass. launches $25M program to bolster behavioral health workforce
May 2, 2025The state has launched a $25-million scholarship program for students looking to work within the state, with nearly half allocated to retroactive payments.
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DPH: Framingham Union’s neonatal unit, which is scheduled to close, is medically necessary to the region
May 1, 2025Framingham Union has until May 9 to prepare a plan explaining how the hospital’s special care nursery services will be maintained for the residents of its service area.
May 1, 2025 
Oxford pharmaceutical manufacturer partners with Mark Cuban company to offer affordable medication
April 30, 2025The joint venture will see EverPharm’s specialty pharmaceutical products integrated into Cost Plus Marketplace, which focuses on providing fair-market, transparent pricing for prescription medications.
April 30, 2025
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