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A Worcester man is getting some much-needed rest following a charitable climb to raise money for teens fighting addiction. Andy Petit climbed Mount Washington this week to raise money for Community HealthLink’s Motivating Youth Recovery, where he works.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $20 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. for the cost of steps taken during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Worcester Railers Hockey Club in partnership with Fletcher Tilton recognized more than 500 nurses from UMass Memorial Health on Tues., May 23rd in celebration of National Nurses Month.

Community Healthlink has appointed two leaders for its new crisis co-response team that will dispatch teams alongside police to mental health-related emergency calls.

Brian Gibbs. Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at UMass Memorial Health (Worcester, Mass.). Mr. Gibbs started his role at UMass Memorial Health in December 2020.

The Worcester Railers are supporting local caregivers in honor of National Nurses Month. Team members handed out 500 flowers Tuesday to nurses at three UMass Memorial Health campuses in Worcester.

The UMass Memorial Hospital Dermatology Department hosts free skin cancer screening and eye exams on Saturday, May 20, from 8 AM to noon.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Members of the UMass Memorial medical team were slimed Thursday as part of an event to mark Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day.

In Worcester, UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center is the only hospital-level provider between Boston and Springfield.

In Worcester, UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center is the only hospital-level provider between Boston and Springfield. But it’s located in a region of the state with the highest population growth, which means there are a lot of children under 18, Worcester Medical Director Dr.

Three years ago, emergency departments across Massachusetts were inundated with patients infected with COVID-19. In my 30-plus years of working in emergency medicine, I had never seen anything like it. No one had. We cared for patients in tents outside the emergency department.

“At about 99 percent of the hospitals in the country, they come in for a bronchoscopy, they have a biopsy and then the diagnosis takes about a week or so,” said Mark Maxfield, MD, a thoracic surgeon at UMass Memorial Health.