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.

Effective October 1, affiliation strengthens Milford Regional’s community-focused mission

Worcester, Mass. (October 1, 2024) - UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) announced today that Milford Regional Medical Center, inclusive of Milford Regional Physician Group, and its employees are now formally part of the UMMH system. Milford Regional Medical Center’s name is now officially UMass Memorial Health – Milford Regional Medical Center.

12 local nurses in the same ICU unit all recently had babies, all of them boys.

The UMass Memorial gift, in partnership with University of Massachusetts Foundation, establishes new endowed chairs which support efforts to impact more patients across the region.

Lists Sergio Melgar, Executive Vice President and CFO for UMass Memorial Health and Connie Camelo, Director of Interpreter Services at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Becker’s Hispanic and Latino leaders to know list for 2024. 

A Worcester urologist is sharing his experience of being diagnosed with and battling prostate cancer.

Dr. Mitchell Sokoloff, chair of Urology at UMass Memorial Medical Center, was diagnosed earlier this year and had surgery in April to remove the cancer.

“We have gone from an average 2.7 miles drive, to a 12 or 16 miles drive to either Leominster or Concord,” Johnston said in a phone call Friday. “On Wednesday, we didn’t have at least one of our two ambulances in town pretty much all day … . It is just as we thought it would be. The staff here is always in the ambulance.”

Even when they get to the facility, which will now mainly be UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster or Emerson Hospital in Concord, the ambulances are then affected by potential wait times for their patient to be admitted.

Mentions UMass Memorial Health's efforts in helping to bring down overdose deaths in Worcester. 

Dr. Richard Ellison, immunologist and infectious disease specialist at UMass Memorial Medical Center, is interviewed about mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEE).