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UMass Memorial Completes Groton ER Foundation, Will See Patients in March 2027
UMass Named Among Nation's Best Hospitals in Annual Newsweek List
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.
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 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.
UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center and Fresh Start Surgical Gifts Announce New Partnership to Expand Pediatric Craniofacial Care
Worcester, MA — UMass Memorial Health’s Craniofacial Clinic at Children’s Medical Center is proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Fresh Start Surgical Gifts.
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.