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This episode features Neil Gilchrist, Chief Pharmacy Officer of UMass Memorial Health. Here, he discusses workforce development, the continued shift to value and outcomes based services, and more.

WORCESTER, Mass. - UMass Memorial Health president and CEO says we're now in a third surge of the virus.

It comes as they now know the immunity provided by the vaccine starts to decrease within a year.

Massachusetts reported 1,726 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday as well as 18 new deaths.

The daily report of new infections remains elevated, but Friday’s new case total was a decline from the 2,096 new cases reported on Thursday.

Like so much west of Boston, the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester can sometimes be overlooked, despite a history of accomplishment and even a Nobel laureate.

Gerald Chan, the billionaire investor, counts himself among those who had not given much thought to UMass Medical, simply because he’s been focused on the research happening in the Boston area. But after a tour about five years ago, he came away surprised and impressed.

WORCESTER, Mass. - Governor Charlie Baker issued a proclamation declaring August 31 Overdose Awareness Day in Massachusetts.

More than 2,100 purple flags are outside of UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass Medical School. Each flag represents a person who died from an opioid overdose in the state in 2020.

Dr. Robert Finberg, known as one of the nation’s foremost virologists and who played a vital role in researching the COVID vaccine in Worcester, died unexpectedly on Monday, UMass Medical School announced.

Finberg, a professor and chair emeritus of the department of medicine, was 71.

UMass Memorial Health is celebrating their new program, Hospital at Home. It helps patients receive high-quality, hospital-level care in the comfort of their own home.

Nurses are able to deliver medications and in-home care twice each day and doctors visit patients via telehealth at least once each day.

UMass Memorial Hospital announced on Monday, August 23, that it purchased a property on Plantation Street where it will add acute care medical-surgical beds.

The building, at 378 Plantation Street, is the former home of the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center.

Worcester healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health announced a plan on Wednesday to provide booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to all individuals eight months after they received their second vaccine.

The plan is still being reviewed by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control, said a press release from UMass.