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UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester is the best hospital in Massachusetts when it comes to serving low-income patients and those from varying racial backgrounds, according to a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report.

On a Saturday afternoon at the Worcester Public Library’s main branch, the center of attention was a rubber prop meant to mimic a wounded human limb.

About a dozen people, women and men of all ages, watched as Stop The Bleed instructor Dominick Dunbar wrapped a tourniquet around the prop, demonstrating how to tighten the strap and explaining where to place one in the event of a real injury.

While consumers make a dash for doorbuster deals this Black Friday, David Filar will be running to raise funds for UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center’s Child Life program.Filar, who has lived in Worcester for the last nine years, is embarking on a four-day, 154-mile run across Massachusetts in an effort to raise $15,000 to purchase safe, developmental toys for young hospital patients during the holiday season.

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. 

As the use of artificial intelligence is becoming more prevalent in health care, UMass Memorial Medical Center’s emergency room in Worcester last year quietly became the first level-one trauma center in the United States to implement KATE AI.

Now, after nearly 18 months, UMass Memorial has seen a significant increase in the accuracy of its initial assessment of the severity of patients’ conditions.

Dr. Erik Garcia, an internal medicine physician at UMass Memorial Health who works on the hospital’s Road to Care mobile van, discussed the opening of a safe injection site in Worcester at Monday’s Board of Health meeting

Announced in the summer of 2023, the new facility will offer adult and pediatric primary care, as well as obstetrics and gynecology, urgent care, and laboratory and radiology services. 

Opening of the new satellite location follows a January announcement Milford Regional has entered into a definitive agreement of corporate affiliation with UMass Memorial Health in Worcester. 

Details UMass Memorial Health’s new hospital at home program for postpartum patients, including quotes from Dr. Taki Michaelidis, the medical director of Hospital at Home. 

Interview with Cherise Hamblin, medical director of the new doula program at UMass Memorial Medical Center, on Black maternal health and the significance of Black Maternal Health Week.