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Local youth at the Regional Environmental Council spent Saturday turning old, destroyed guns into garden tools.

The partnership between UMass Memorial Health's annual gun buyback program and Guns 2 Gardens looks to take unwanted guns off the streets.

United Way of North Central Massachusetts (UWNCM) also recently distributed $40,000 to four agencies as part of the second phase of its Determination of Need initiative, funded by a grant from UMass Memorial Clinton Hospital.

UWNCM also recently distributed $40,000 to four agencies as part of the second phase of its Determination of Need initiative, funded by a grant from UMass Memorial Clinton Hospital.

UMass Memorial Health surgical oncologist and Little League mom Dr. Jennifer LaFemina is being credited with saving an umpire’s life after he was hit in the neck by a foul ball. 

Dr. Jennifer LaFemina, a surgical oncologist at UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, Massachusetts, was watching her son play in a local baseball tournament on July 11, when she saw the home plate umpire get hit in the throat by a wild pitch.

President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health, discusses the administrative burden that is contributing to the difficulties of getting a doctor’s appointment.  

UMass Memorial Health has become the first health care system to roll out the 24/7 video and audio translating app designed to help accessibility for patients who speak limited English, are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, called LanguageLine Solutions.

A free screening in Worcester helped community members get checked for skin cancer.

Doctors from UMass Memorial's dermatology and ophthalmology departments provided the screenings, while also giving visitors eye exams. Students from UMass Chan Medical School helped coordinate the event.

UMass Memorial Health is working with Google Cloud to use the tech giant’s data and artificial intelligence capabilities to better connect patients with difficult-to-access drugs for conditions like diabetes and heart disease, Healthcare Dive has learned.