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By BELLA LEVAVI
GREENFIELD — Community members and health care providers gathered Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of Baystate Health’s $70 million campaign, marking the largest fundraising goal in the hospital system’s history.“Baystate Health has been...
By Chris Lisinski
BOSTON — In a move that one Massachusetts social worker described as an “answered prayer,” the state will repay more than $140 million in student loans for almost 3,000 health care providers who serve communities in need.An estimated 2,935 primary...
By ALISON KUZNITZ
BOSTON — Hundreds of aspiring nurse aides can start taking their certification exams in Spanish and Chinese next year, the start of a multilingual policy that advocates and lawmakers say will tackle a major workforce shortage in nursing homes and...
By MARY BYRNE
GREENFIELD — In an effort to put a friendly face to the medical community, physicians will be hosting “Walk with a Doc” on a biweekly basis, offering residents a chance to meet with doctors and learn more about contemporary health care issues. The...
By MADDIE FABIAN
NORTHAMPTON — Registered pharmacists in Massachusetts can now prescribe hormonal birth control under a bill passed in the state budget this week.The legislation, “An Act Relative to Hormonal Contraceptives,” which is co-sponsored by state Rep. Lindsay...
By MADDIE FABIAN
NORTHAMPTON — Since last summer, nearly 1,800 people around the Valley have received reproductive, addiction, and sexual health services on a mobile van operated by Tapestry Health.The van is part of a “Community Care in Reach” program funded by the...
By MARY BYRNE
GREENFIELD — Two social service agencies are working together to support not only older adults and people with disabilities, but also their families who care for them through the creation of a new enrichment center. Thanks to $450,000 in state...
ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Cooley Dickinson Hospital broke ground on its new emergency department building in a ceremony Thursday, an event that also celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its partnership with the Mass General Brigham hospital system.The project,...
By CHRIS LISINSKI
BOSTON — One-third of the way into a first-of-its-kind mandatory campaign to curb spending, Mass General Brigham has achieved about a quarter of its savings target, state regulators said Wednesday.Mass General Brigham, an affiliate of Cooley Dickinson...
By EMILY THURLOW
EASTHAMPTON — The City Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday on a proposed ordinance that one councilor estimates having spent more than 300 hours researching and holding discussions with reproductive and gender-affirming advocates over the...
By Chris Lisinski
BOSTON — Massachusetts regulators delivered one of their most forceful warnings yet that health care prices are spiraling out of control, ramping up the pressure on lawmakers who have been unable to wrangle the trend and fulfill a consensus vision of...
By Sam Doran
BOSTON — A proposed pilot program for Massachusetts hospitals could be “game-changing” in identifying medical error cases and the causes behind them, the Betsy Lehman Center’s executive director said Monday, and several hospitals have expressed...
By ALISON KUZNITZ
BOSTON — Thousands of Massachusetts residents from marginalized backgrounds could gain health insurance coverage should policymakers move to expand eligibility criteria for state-subsidized plans and remove administrative hurdles, a report released...
By Sydney Ko
BOSTON — Despite the 2020 passage of the ROE Act and a multimillion-dollar investment in reproductive health care access, infrastructure, and security last year, advocates say Massachusetts still faces a threat from efforts to restrict interstate...
By ANNA GUARACAO
As the temperature drops and Bay State residents spend more time indoors, public health experts and health care professionals are concerned about an increasing viral mix of COVID-19, RSV, and the flu, while staffing shortages and overflowing emergency...
By TYNAN POWER
Alice Walker said, “Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.” But what happens when sexuality becomes a site of pain and trauma? For far too many people, harmful experiences can limit...
By SARAH GARDNER
NORTHAMPTON — When she started planning a health care reform march two months ago, Debby Pastrich-Klemer thought she would be giving a speech in anger.But then, the day before the march, the “skinny repeal” bill, a scaled-down version of plans to...
By Phil Galewitz
After the Senate fell short in their effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not: shrink Medicaid.President Donald Trump’s top health officials could...
By ERICA WERNER and ALAN FRAM
WASHINGTON — After seven years of emphatic campaign promises, Senate Republicans demonstrated they didn’t have the stomach to repeal “Obamacare” on Wednesday when it actually counted. The Senate voted 55-45 to reject legislation to throw out major...
By ALAN FRAM and ERICA WERNER
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump blasted congressional Democrats and “a few Republicans” Tuesday over the failure of the GOP effort to rewrite the Obama health care law, and warned, “we will return.”Trump’s early morning tweet unleashed a barrage...
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