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Among Massachusetts hospitals, the gap between rich and poor widens - The Boston Globe
August 07, 2024
Hospitals that serve lower income patients charge much lower prices compared to big players like Mass General Brigham. Community hospitals like those operated by Steward Health Care had problems before the...
Editorial: A worthy push to get more people to use urgent care - Boston Business Journal
July 10, 2024
For urgent-care centers to work the way they are intended, people need to understand when to go there and when to go straight to the ER.Even as urgent-care centers have...
CHIA: Racial diversity is lacking in Mass. healthcare leadership | The Worcester Business Journal
June 29, 2024
Newly released data shows the majority of leadership positions in the Massachusetts healthcare industry are held by white people, a fact that not only shapes workplace dynamics, but can often...
Mass. Insured Struggling With Health Care Access, Costs | State House News Service
June 27, 2024
Health insurance is mandatory in Massachusetts and the latest state-sponsored snapshot, based on findings collected from April through August 2023, indicate that 98.3 percent of residents reported having insurance.The Center for Health...
Massachusetts health care by the numbers
June 17, 2024
MASSACHUSETTS IS IN the unique position of having a designated agency to wave a red flag when health care systems start trending in troubling directions, and the head of that...
Mass. health care labor shortage hard for nursing, home care | The Boston Globe
June 07, 2024
After helping Rita Barse, left, shower and dress, aide Millicent Cousins leaves for the day. Barse, 83, of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard has been waiting since November 2022 for...
Status of primary care system keeps slipping
May 16, 2024
More and more doctors leaving practices, some cancer screenings down - Jennifer Smith, Commonwealth Beacon, Thursday, May 16, 2024 BY ALMOST EVERY almost every significant metric, primary care in Massachusetts is...
About a third of Mass. voters are unhappy with health care access, new poll shows
April 26, 2024
Dissatisfaction was highest among Hispanic residents. Dr. Barbara Spivak, a primary care doctor in Watertown and the president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, said primary care doctors make 20 percent less...
Massachusetts Health Care Costs Rose Sharply Again In 2022
March 13, 2024
Consumers, Hospitals Lose Ground As Total Spending Increased 5.8 PercentColin A. Young, State House News Service, Wednesday, March 13, 2024MARCH 13, 2024.....As policymakers this week examine a law meant to...
State Takes First Look At Pediatric Hospital Readmissions
October 19, 2023
BOSTON (State House News Service) — Unplanned hospital readmissions are viewed by health care analysts as a measure of system performance and quality, and new state data marks the inaugural look...