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‘Everybody’s got the flu.’ Cases are spiking quickly in children, doctors say.
Health insurers face new restrictions as Healey moves to end prior authorizations, long hated by many
How to handle kids and the flu
We've been hearing about it for weeks. Flu is raging right now, and children are being affected by that surge.
UMass Memorial Health Integrates AEYE Health's AEYE-DS Autonomous AI Screening for Diabetic Eye Care into EMR System
AEYE Health, the leader in artificial intelligence-based diagnostics for retinal imaging, and UMass Memorial Health (UMMH), the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts, today announced the integration of AEYE Health's AEYE-DS, an AI-based autonomous diagnostic screening
WBJ names the Champions of Health Care for 2024
The entire sector is facing multiple crises right now (workforce shortages, hospital closures, insurance reimbursement shortfalls, vaccine skepticism, etc.), but it is populated by people who represent the best of us.
Champions of Health Care: 'There's not many people like Erik'
“There's not many people like Erik,” said Justin Precourt, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. “He works day and night, tirelessly, to help meet the needs of the underserved and the Worcester community.”
Champions of Health Care: Precourt tackles systematic healthcare challenges
Welcoming newborns with compassion: Inside UMass Memorial's Maternity Center
Michelle Krzcuik is a labor and delivery nurse and the head of the Maternity Center's Patient and Family Advisory Council.
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.
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.
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.