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Merged Tufts, Harvard health plans to adopt new name based on …

WebTufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care announced today that after their merger this fall, they will have a new corporate name: Point32Health. Read more.

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Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center wins approval for …

WebThe Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a new three-story home for the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center on Old Road between Ellington Street and Michigan Avenue in Dorchester, basically to the rear of its existing facilities on Blue Hill Avenue.. The new building will consolidate all of the health center's medical and dental …

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Hyde Park community center could get health clinic

WebHyde Park community center could get health clinic. Acting Mayor Kim Janey said today the city will spend $2 million renovating space in the Muni on River Street in Hyde Park's Logan Square to serve as a new health center for a neighborhood that has a lower life expectancy than the city average. Janey added the city is seeking proposals …

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Mass General Brigham brings back employee mask requirement as …

WebThe Boston Business Journal reports that with both Covid-19 and flu numbers spiking in the Boston area, Mass General Brigham will be requiring health-care workers to wear masks if they interact with patients starting Jan. 2.. Patients and visitors will be "strongly encouraged," but not required, to wear masks as well. The amount of Covid …

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WebBy mcshugar - 5/16/24 - 1:27 pm. A mighty little light particle has jogged (read: teleported?) its first quantum marathon around the universal hub in a groundbreaking new scientific study. Harvard phsyicists used existing Boston-area telecommunication fiber networks to send the particle over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville

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Faulkner Hospital's expansion plans now include a floor that could …

WebFaulkner Hospital has filed a new set of expansion plans that are largely similar to the ones it filed in 2019, but with one major change: One of the new in-patient floors would have a special ventilation system to better let the hospital isolate and treat patients during the current and future pandemics.. In a new filing with the BPDA today, …

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More than half of Mass/Cass tenters moved into new housing; rest …

WebMayor Wu said today that 83 people who had been living in tents along Methadone Mile have been placed in new, "low-threshold" housing - with heat, hot water and ready access to counseling and health services. Read more.

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Nursing staffing agency says Steward Health Care owes it nearly …

WebA Cincinnati staffing agency that provides temp nurses to hospitals has sued Steward Health Care Systems, which operates St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester, for the money it says the hospital system stopped paying for all of the health-care professionals funneled to Steward hospitals following the …

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State to set up temporary housing for Mass/Cass homeless at …

WebThe state next month will set up a "temporary cottage community" on the grounds of Shattuck Hospital in Franklin Park to house and care for up to 30 people who now live - or try to live - in tents along Methadone Mile, state Health and Human Services Secretary Mary Lou Sudders said today. Read more.

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Changing of the guard: Seaport building that went up as an …

WebA Kendall Square concern has filed plans with the BPDA to retrofit the curvy 14-story building at 601 Congress St., originally built as the US headquarters of a Canadian insurance company, as lab and office space for the red-hot life-sciences market in …

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If you got something in the mail about a 'cookie settlement' and

WebPatients at Mass. General and Brigham and Women's and their community hospitals and physician groups as well as patients at Mass. Eye and Ear and Dana-Farber are eligible to share in an $18.4-million class-action settlement of a claim involving information the health-care providers' Web site may have shared with Facebook and …

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Former Brighton hospital that was supposed to be torn down for a

WebBoston tomorrow re-opens the long shuttered Kindred Hospital at 1515 Commonwealth Ave. in Brighton to house homeless people in need of isolation who don't need more intensive hospital care - and will use a Suffolk University dorm for housing the homeless, Mayor Walsh said today. Read more.

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Largest grant in BPS history will double size of health-oriented …

WebA foundation started by the former mayor of New York today announced a $37.8 million grant to double the size of the Edward M. Kennedy Academy of Health Careers and create a new series of college-level classes and internships aimed at getting graduates careers in the Mass General Brigham system.. The grant, by Bloomberg …

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City, state officials work to help residents, workers at a Mission Hill

WebCity councilors yesterday denounced management at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center, 120 Fisher Ave. on Mission Hill, for the way it's planning to close by July 1, frightening residents and delaying or bouncing employee paychecks. Councilors say the city has started working with state officials, including state Rep. Sam Montaño and state …

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With for-profit hospital system crumbling, Boston councilors also …

WebCity Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with …

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Physical therapist barred in several states for defrauding insurers

WebA man who offered physical therapy in the Boston area starting in 2009 proceeded to submit bogus claims to health insurers the same way he had previously defrauded insurers in other states, which led to him losing his license in Colorado, New York, Washington, DC and California, according to an indictment unsealed today in US …

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Woman sues over salmonella she says she got eating catered food …

WebAn employee of an accounting firm in the Hancock Building today sued Los Amigos Tacos for what she says were the horrifying effects of eating salmonella-contaminated food from its Brighton Center outlet three days before Boston health inspectors ordered the place shut due to a salmonella outbreak. Read more.

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NEWTON-WELLESLEY HOSPITAL LAUNCHES ER WAIT TIME …

WebThe Hospital is introducing three new innovative tools for its patients: an Emergency Room (ER) wait time display on the Newton-Wellesley website, a Hospital iPhone application available on iTunes for download and a mobile version of the website available for many smartphones. Newton-Wellesley Hospital has already begun displaying the current

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New mother at St. Elizabeth's died from internal bleeding; doctors …

WebThe Globe reports the financial crisis at the company that owns St. Elizabeth's - and Carney Hospital in Dorchester - can have direct patient impact, like when a woman is bleeding internally but the hospital no longer had the embolization coils that might have stopped the bleeding because it couldn't pay for them, and she has to be …

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Erin Murphy latest councilor to try for lifetime sinecure in

WebBy adamg on Tue, 03/05/2024 - 9:33am. Kelly Garrity reports that Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) is going to run this fall for the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County's clerk job that Maura Doyle recently announced she is retiring from. Garrity reports that Murphy told her that her decades as a BPS teacher and her time on the council

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