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Kent offers state’s first ‘hospital-at-home’ acute care program
“Patients like being in their home, where they’re happier and sleeping in their own beds, surrounded by loved ones, their favorite cat and TV,” said Dr. Taki Michaelidis, medical director of the program at UMass Memorial Health. “In your home environment, you just recover better.”
Massachusetts residents wait in cold for hours to get COVID tests, officials seek more testing sites amid omicron ‘log jam’: ‘We have to do better’
Bay Staters are having their patience tested to kick off the year as thousands of people on Monday waited in massive lines — some shivering in the bitter cold for hours — to get tested for COVID amid the omicron surge.
UMass Memorial says positivity rate has 'skyrocketed' to around 30% during recent COVID-19 surge
WORCESTER, Mass. - Monday marked another day of long lines at the Mercantile Center COVID-19 testing site in downtown Worcester.
Hundreds of people lined up to get tested following the holiday season, including 250 people tested in the first hour the clinic was open on Monday.
UMass Memorial welcomes New Year's baby Avianna Alaiia Rosario
WORCESTER — When Ashley Rivera chooses names for her children, she tries to pick something unique.
"I pick names that will make them stand out in the world," she said.
Hundreds of people line up to get tested for COVID-19 on Thursday at Mercantile Center ahead of NYE
WORCESTER, Mass. - It was another busy day of COVID-19 testing at the Mercantile Center in downtown Worcester on Thursday.
Hundreds of people lined up to get tested before New Year’s Eve.
Mass General Brigham expansion would eke out small savings, report says
"I don't know how anyone could believe that allowing the most expensive, largest health care system in the state to expand at the expense of smaller, less expensive health care systems could reduce the cost of health care in the state," said Dr. Eric Dickson, CEO of UMass Memorial Health.