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Healthcare expenditures throughout Massachusetts soared to $78.1 billion in 2023, averaging $11,153 per resident. The year’s total represented an 8.6% per-capita increase from 2022, according to a report released in March by the Center for Health Information and Analysis.

UMass Memorial Health/Road To Care Mobile Clinic, in collaboration with UMass Chan Medical School, the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, the Reliant Foundation, and RIZE Massachusetts, is proud to announce a free Continued Medical Education (CME) conference on September 23, 2024 for providers to fulfill new federal training requirements and improve access to opioid use disorder treatment in the region.

This daylong training session, “Transforming Care: Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention and Management of Opioid Use Disorder,” gives providers from different health systems and private...

Three NCCY Award Recipients to be honored at the 29th Annual Kenneth B. Schwartz Compassionate Healthcare Dinner

BOSTON (October 22, 2024)—The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a national nonprofit dedicated to putting compassion at the heart of healthcare, has selected three recipients from across the U.S. for the 2024 National Compassionate Caregivers of the Year® (NCCY) Award. The NCCY Award celebrates extraordinary healthcare professionals who display extraordinary compassion in the care of their patients, colleagues and their communities.

The recipients will be honored at the...

More than two dozen high school students exploring careers in medicine, research and public health presented their research at UMass Chan Medical School on Wednesday, April 9, during an event marking their successful completion of the 2025 Pipeline Dreams program.

“I am interested in medicine because I believe medicine is the heart of activism and it affects all scopes of life,” said Nakeisha Moise, a junior at Worcester’s North High School. “The more we invest in health, the more we invest in the advancement of our world.” 

Lauren Murphy is preparing to run the Boston Marathon and she’s got her husband Brian Rettger by her side.

“This is my third marathon in six months," Murphy said. "But Brian is actually the one who got me into running during COVID.”

After UMass Memorial Health previously announced it would open an emergency department in the Nashoba Valley region in the wake of Nashoba Valley Medical Center’s closure, the Worcester-based system is taking next steps to acquire a Groton site to open a satellite emergency facility. 

The Board of Health wants the public to know about the importance of getting vaccinated against infectious diseases. 

In a 5-0 vote Monday, the board directed the city Public Health Department to develop a plan to inform residents about vaccines and wants the plan presented during the board's next meeting May 5. 

Facing a statewide health care workforce shortage, advocates for physician assistants spoke last week at the State House to support legislation that eliminates restrictive supervision requirements, as they aim to expand care access in underserved areas.

At first, it sounded like an isolated and tragic incident, but one perhaps too far away to cause any worries here in New England: an outbreak of measles in Texas, resulting in two deaths.