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Health Care

  • Glass Tower owner buys second piece of Worcester skyline

    Timothy Doyle March 2, 2023

    Boston developer Synergy Investments, which owns The Glass Tower at 446 Main Street has purchased two more Worcester office buildings, including another high rise, at One and Two Chestnut Place for $10.5 million.

    Timothy Doyle March 2, 2023
  • UMass Memorial names first female board chair and first female, Latina vice chair

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023

    UMass Memorial Health has appointed Dr. Lynda Young as board chair and Elvira Guardiola as vice chair of the board of trustees. Young is the first woman to be chair, and Guardiola is the first woman and the first Latina to be vice chair.

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023
  • WPI researcher receives $2.4M grant for infection detection app

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023

    The National Institutes of Health awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Emmanuel Agu $2.4 million to develop a smartphone app to detect infections in open wounds.

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023
  • MetroWest bioscience firm expanding manufacturing operations

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023

    RoslinCT and Lykan Bioscience, a combined cell therapy manufacturer, announced Tuesday it is adding six processing suites at its Hopkinton facility. Citing industry demand, the MetroWest and Edinburgh, Scotland based contract developer and

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023
  • UMass to cease free COVID testing at 100 Front St. on March 31

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023

    As demand for COVID-19 testing continues to drop, UMass Memorial Health announced on Tuesday that free testing at 100 Front Street will cease on March 31.

    Isabel Tehan March 1, 2023
  • Open Sky promotes two staff members to executives

    Isabel Tehan February 28, 2023

    Worcester-based human services nonprofit Open Sky Community Services has promoted two senior staff members to newly created executive roles as part of an organizational restructuring move. The organization is moving to have a single leadership team

    Isabel Tehan February 28, 2023
  • Tenet picks new chief HR officer for Mass. market, including Saint Vincent

    Isabel Tehan February 24, 2023

    Tenet Healthcare has named Christian Bartholomew as the new chief human resources officer for the Massachusetts market and Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester. Bartholomew will assume the role on Monday.

    Isabel Tehan February 24, 2023
  • Changes in long-term care eyed for early House action

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service February 24, 2023

    Nearly three years after the COVID-19 pandemic thrust problems at nursing homes and similar facilities into public view, elder care advocates are optimistic that a sweeping reform bill high on the House's agenda will address conditions that

    Chris Lisinski | State House News Service February 24, 2023
  • Ascentria names new chief of strategy and external relations

    Isabel Tehan February 24, 2023

    Ascentria Care Alliance, a human services nonprofit based in Worcester with a presence throughout New England, has hired Christine Tappan as the new chief of strategy and external relations. Tappan will join the executive team in strategic planning

    Isabel Tehan February 24, 2023
  • Amid executive turnover, Saint Vincent and MetroWest Medical Center to share new CMO

    Isabel Tehan February 23, 2023

    MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham and Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester have appointed a new shared chief medical officer.

    Isabel Tehan February 23, 2023
  • Natick life science building sold for $3.5M

    Timothy Doyle February 23, 2023

    A 7,676-square-foot life-sciences building at 19 Strathmore Road in Natick was sold on Feb. 14 for $3.5 million.

    Timothy Doyle February 23, 2023
  • Spectrum Health to offer mobile treatment for opioid-use disorder

    Isabel Tehan February 22, 2023

    Worcester nonprofit Spectrum Health Systems has launched a mobile van service for opioid use treatment.

    Isabel Tehan February 22, 2023
  • WPI researcher receives $606K to study kombucha-related discovery

    Timothy Doyle February 22, 2023

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Jeannine Coburn was granted $606,146 from the National Science Foundation to develop a transparent wound dressing with its roots in a home culinary project.

    Timothy Doyle February 22, 2023
  • Fallon Health CEO and president to retire

    Isabel Tehan February 21, 2023

    Richard Burke, the president and CEO of Fallon Health, is retiring from his role at the end of the year.

    Isabel Tehan February 21, 2023
  • Report: UMass Chan suing UMass Memorial for $40M

    Kevin Koczwara February 21, 2023

    A legal battle is being fought between UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Memorial Health over millions of dollars from UMass Memorial’s 2019 sale of its stake in Shields Health Solutions to Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. 

    Kevin Koczwara February 21, 2023
  • Movers & Shakers for Feb. 20, 2023

    Updated: February 20, 2023

    People are on the moved at Fidelity Bank, GFA Federal Credit Union, and Waters Corp.

    Updated: February 20, 2023

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