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  • Mass. AG calls for increased transparency in nursing home management

    Isabel Tehan April 24, 2023

    Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a coalition of 18 state AGs and the inspector general in Washington D.C. in a call for more transparent disclosures of nursing home ownership.

    Isabel Tehan April 24, 2023
  • Cambridge startup wins UMass Chan, UMass Lowell seed funding contest

    Isabel Tehan April 19, 2023

    Spheric Bio, a Cambridge company developing a 3D heart implant to help prevent strokes, was awarded $50,000 for winning the M2D2 Challenge, a partnership between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Lowell.

    Isabel Tehan April 19, 2023
  • State sticks with healthcare cost benchmark

    Michael Norton | State House News Service April 19, 2023

    With consumers experiencing higher health care outlays and some putting off care because of it, a state commission on Wednesday stuck with the annual state health care cost growth benchmark, which is a target rather than a binding cap on price or

    Michael Norton | State House News Service April 19, 2023
  • Saint Vincent and MetroWest Medical Center appoint new chief strategy officer

    Isabel Tehan April 17, 2023

    Tenet Healthcare announced the appointment of Connie Malave Branyan as the new market chief strategy officer for its Massachusetts market, which encompasses Saint Vincent Hospital and MetroWest Medical Center.

    Isabel Tehan April 17, 2023
  • Bankrupting the system: High utilization of travel nurses still causing financial strain

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023

    To cover for COVID-related staff shortages, hospitals are over-reliant on travel nurses, who are paid significantly more than staff.

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023
  • Central Mass. life sciences research spans from alpacas to AI

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023

    Researchers across Central Mass. are leading development of cutting-edge ideas and therapies to provide the next generation of solutions to present and future problems.

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023
  • Movers & Shakers for April 17, 2023

    Updated: April 17, 2023

    Here's what's new with personnel at MutualOne Bank, Cornerstone Bank, UMass Memorial Health, Venture Community Services and more.

    Updated: April 17, 2023
  • Diagnosing AI: Healthcare community excited, wary of artificial intelligence

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023

    With the medical world on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution, researchers and clinicians are excited about the potential and wary of technology implicitly reliant on human bias

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023
  • Major operations: Large life science companies contribute mightily to the region

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023

    Large for-profit life sciences companies have called Central Mass. their home for decades. Now, they play an important role in bringing talent, investment, and research to the region.

    Isabel Tehan Updated: April 17, 2023
  • Fitchburg nonprofit joins Chelmsford human services provider in $47M deal

    Isabel Tehan April 13, 2023

    Fitchburg nonprofit The Arc of Opportunity has become an affiliate of Chelmsford-based Incompass Human Services, which serves nearly 500 individuals with brain injuries and intellectual disabilities in the Greater Lawrence and Greater Lowell areas.

    Isabel Tehan April 13, 2023
  • UMass Chan professor awarded $1M NSF grant for mRNA genomics research

    Isabel Tehan April 12, 2023

    Athma Pai, assistant professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has received a $1-million CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation.

    Isabel Tehan April 12, 2023
  • Saint Vincent launches program to improve outcomes in childbirth

    Isabel Tehan April 12, 2023

    Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester has added a new program to close the gaps in communication that can lead to negative outcomes for those giving birth and their babies.

    Isabel Tehan April 12, 2023
  • UMass Chan’s $358M leads record-breaking research year systemwide

    Isabel Tehan April 12, 2023

    UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester had $358 million in research and development expenditures in fiscal 2022, leading the record-breaking $813-million year throughout the entire UMass system.

    Isabel Tehan April 12, 2023
  • Workforce aid eyed to stabilize nursing homes

    Sam Drysdale and Michael Norton | State House News Service April 11, 2023

    Senior care and health workforce advocates say increased pay for care workers included in a priority bill on Beacon Hill would help address the staffing shortages that have plagued the state's nursing homes in recent years and led to a decline in

    Sam Drysdale and Michael Norton | State House News Service April 11, 2023
  • Biostage secures $6M to advance clinical trials

    Isabel Tehan April 7, 2023

    Biostage, a cell-therapy biotech company based in Holliston, has received $6 million in commitments from investors to accelerate its clinical development program.

    Isabel Tehan April 7, 2023
  • Physician assistants push to keep their pandemic flexibility

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 7, 2023

    Keeping in place a pandemic-era policy that gave physician assistants greater workplace and supervisory flexibility would help Massachusetts navigate a spiraling health care workforce crisis, its legislative sponsor said Thursday.

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service April 7, 2023

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