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New UMass Memorial Health acute-care facility looks to address bed shortage in Massachusetts
We're getting a closer look at UMass Memorial Health's new North Pavilion Building.
Running the Boston Marathon for the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund
The 129th Boston Marathon won’t be John Kelly’s first rodeo.
Husband’s gift, wife’s miracle: the kidney that saved 2 lives
When Erin Murphy thinks about how her husband helped her receive a kidney transplant much sooner than expected, she has only one way to descri
Worcester area seeing increase in walking pneumonia and whooping cough. What to know
Medical experts are stressing that members of the public should be up to date on their vaccines as Massachusetts, including the Worcester area, sees a significant spike in two respiratory illnesses.
New programs offer doulas to help non-white moms during childbirth
At UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, a new program will provide Black women who are giving birth access to culturally tailored and equitable support from a doula.
100+ hospitals and health systems with great oncology programs | 2024
Includes UMass Memorial Health Cancer Center in a list of 100 hospital and health systems with great oncology programs.
Firefighters eligible for skin screenings
Volunteer dermatologists from UMass Memorial Medical Center will be screening firefighters from 9 am to 1 pm at the Hahnemann Campus, located at 281 Lincoln Street in Worcester on November 16.
UMass Memorial Pilots Postpartum Hospital-at-Home Program
Benjamin Hamar, MD, Director of the Maternity Center at UMass Memorial and a member of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division, discuss the new hospital-at-home program for postpartum patients.
UMass Memorial partnership to deliver pediatric care for cleft palates, other craniofacial anomalies
In an effort to boost access to craniofacial care for children, Worcester healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health has teamed up with Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, a California-based medical nonprofit.
UMass Memorial Health names new president of Worcester’s largest hospital, appoints two to C-suite
Justin Precourt, interim president of Worcester’s UMass Memorial Medical Center, has officially shed his provisional title, assuming his role as president of the largest hospital in Central Massachusetts.
Look inside the new UMass Memorial patient building opening next year (Photos)
A new building at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester that will offer 72 additional patient beds will be opened at the beginning of next year.
Massachusetts whooping cough cases surging to pre-pandemic levels
A highly contagious respiratory illness is on the rise in Massachusetts. Cases of whooping cough are surging to pre-pandemic levels.
Pertussis is commonly known as whooping cough because of the sound patients make when they cough.
UMass Memorial Health, SMOC celebrate success of new respite program
Tuesday, UMass Memorial Health and nonprofit SMOC, or South Middlesex Opportunity Council, highlighting the impact their collaboration has had on helping homeless people.
Here’s what to know about rising rates of breast cancer in young women
Dr. A. Gwen Caffrey, an oncologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center and HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, contributes to the information in an article on rising rates of breast cancer in young women.
Breast Cancer Deaths Fall
Dr. A. Gwen Caffrey, an oncologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center and HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital speaks on the rising rates of breast cancer in young women.