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Mass. sets up emergency Steward response system
State officials have launched an incident command system as they brace for health care service disruptions amid the financial turmoil at Steward Health Care. The incident command system will be...
Health
May 3, 2024Peer support transforms mental health care for some in Massachusetts
People who’ve struggled with bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety and other conditions are joining the mental health workforce to provide support for patients experiencing some of the same difficulties they have...
Health
04:38May 2, 2024Workers describe unpaid bills, delayed care and anxiety at Mass. Steward hospitals
Interviews with several current employees — and complaints filed with the state Department of Public Health — paint a picture of flagging investment in facilities, administrative dysfunction and an alleged...
Health
04:28Apr 30, 2024House, Senate approve plan to cap family shelter stays at 9 months and up budget by $251 million
The agreement would pull another $251 million from the so-called Transitional Escrow Account to help pay for fiscal 2024 shelter system costs, with another $175 million available in the budget...
Health
Apr 25, 2024From politics to the lab: The push for psychedelics in Mass.
New research, a potential state ballot measure and pending decisions from the FDA are putting psychedelics are on a path that could lead them to become an integral part of...
Health
Apr 23, 2024Advertisement
'Increasingly urgent': Mass. ratchets up preparation for possible Steward closures
Next week, Gov. Maura Healey's administration will kick off a series of regional meetings with hospitals and community health centers in areas where Steward operates to discuss how to help...
Health
Apr 11, 2024Mass. patient who received pig kidney leaves hospital, continues recovery at home
Richard Slayman, the first living patient ever to receive a genetically modified pig kidney as a transplant, walked out of Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon in good spirits, according...
Health
Apr 3, 2024Some Mass. hospitals stop infant welfare reporting based solely on drug dependence
Instead of automatically reporting to the state infants born dependent on addictive substances like opioids, new policies ask hospital staff to evaluate whether the newborn faces an imminent risk of...
Health
Apr 3, 2024Primary care wait times grow in Mass., pushing some patients to ERs
It is a frustrating reality for primary care providers and patients alike. Many people are waiting longer to see their doctors — often weeks or months, if they can find...
Health
04:07Apr 3, 2024Markey, Warren blast Steward and its CEO at congressional hearing in Boston
The lawmakers criticized the growth of for-profit health care and said they have questions about who profited from business deals involving Steward hospitals, and how the company became bogged down...
Health
Apr 3, 2024Adding health to the reparations conversation in Boston
Reparations aren't usually seen as a way to make sure Black Americans have the same chance at health and longevity as do whites. But some public health and medical leaders...
Health
Apr 2, 2024Boston launches colon cancer awareness campaign focused on predominantly Black communities
The Boston Public Health Commission launched a campaign this week aimed at increasing awareness about colon cancer screening and the ways to combat one of the few known preventable cancers....
Health
Mar 28, 2024In distress, Steward proposes sale of doctors group to Optum
The deal, which will be reviewed by state regulators, is part of Steward's plan to climb out of a financial hole that has shaken the Massachusetts health care industry. The...
Health
Mar 27, 2024Cases settled: 2 ex-officials of Holyoke veterans home where 76 died in pandemic avoid jail time
Two former officials of a veterans home in Massachusetts where at least 76 people died in one of the nation's worst COVID-19 outbreaks in a long-term care facility settled their...
Health
Mar 26, 2024Citing Steward Health, lawmakers take aim at private equity in health care
The hearing about private investments in health care focused primarily on the financial challenges facing Steward Health Care, one of the nation's largest private, for-profit hospital chains, and the uncertain...
Health
Mar 26, 2024In a first, doctors at Mass General transplanted a pig kidney into a living patient
Doctors say the patient, a 62-year-old-man is recovering well from the surgery. It is seen as a milestone and a potential solution to the worldwide shortage of human organs for...
Health
02:48Mar 21, 2024How biotech companies are using AI to design drugs
Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies – and their investors – are betting the newest generation of artificial intelligence can help unleash novel treatments for everything from COVID to cancer and chronic...
Health
Mar 19, 2024A new strategy to attack aggressive brain cancer shrank tumors in early test at MGH
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients....
Health
Mar 14, 2024Mistreatment persists at Bridgewater State Hospital, report says
The report, from the Disability Law Center, found patients at Bridgewater State Hospital were subjected to illegally forced medication injections, violence from staff, lack of medical care, inappropriate medication for...
Health
Mar 13, 2024Mass General, Brigham and Women's hospitals promise closer collaboration
Two of Boston’s biggest and most prominent academic medical centers on Wednesday promised to work more closely together, combining clinical departments in what they’re describing as an effort to improve...
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