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26-412: Milford Regional was acquired by UMass Memorial Health on October 1, 2024. Milford Regional has close to 200 physicians on the active medical staff and an additional 100 courtesy or consulting physicians, patients receive care in multiple specialties. Milford Regional's patient care center includes eight operating suites, consolidated surgical services (including admitting and pre-admission testing) and

52-717: A Blue Distinction Center for multiple specialties because of the hospitals' dedication to patient safety and better health outcomes. The UMass Memorial Health Children's Medical Center is a pediatric acute care hospital located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The hospital has 101 beds and is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School . The hospital is a member of UMass Memorial Health and provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 throughout central Massachusetts. UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center also features

78-589: A medical/surgical floor with private rooms, many with advanced patient monitoring capabilities. In addition, the Maternity Center has been expanded and updated to include a new nursery that will accommodate 16 bassinets, six new postpartum rooms and the renovation of current maternity rooms, of which three include whirlpool labor tubs. Milford Regional opened a new $ 25-million cancer center in January 2007. This building houses comprehensive cancer services in

104-465: A partnership with Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center. In 2009, they opened a comprehensive breast health service called The Breast Center. Milford Regional is affiliated with UMass Memorial Health Care as a major teaching hospital. UMass Memorial Health UMass Memorial Health (UMM Health) is a non-profit healthcare network based in Worcester, Massachusetts , operated by

130-540: A renovated 250,000 squ. ft of public space. The hospital also renovated patient care units and nurses' stations on all floors to provide updated services to patients and hospital staff alike. In late February 2020, hospital authorities disclosed that they had a patient under quarantine at UMass Memorial Medical Center after traveling to China. The hospital has since started a program to prepare for higher amounts of COVID-19 cases. In March 2020, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts chose UMass Memorial Medical Center as

156-583: A variety of informational patient seminars and classes on health-related topics throughout the year. UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) is a designated academic medical center which consists of 818 inpatient beds across three campuses in Worcester, Massachusetts : University Campus, Memorial Campus, and Hahnemann Campus. The largest of these is the University Campus, which is a 640-bed tertiary , research and academic medical center located in Worcester, servicing central Massachusetts. UMMMC

182-464: A variety of physician specialists. They also offer physical rehabilitation services in Marlborough. UMass Memorial Health acquired Milford Regional Medical Center on October 1, 2024. UMass Memorial Health Care faced a downhill financial slide over a 5-year period, starting with an operating surplus of $ 83 million in 2009 to a $ 55 million operating loss in the 2013 fiscal year. The organization

208-615: Is a not-for-profit healthcare network in Worcester, Massachusetts that is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School . It consists of UMass Memorial Medical Center, a Level 1 Trauma Center and the major teaching hospital of UMass Medical School; two community hospitals; and a number of ambulatory clinics throughout Central Massachusetts. UMMH has over 1,700 active medical staff, and 3,166 registered nurses active in over 22 communities. They offer emergency services such as LifeFlight; long-term care facilities; and home health, rehabilitation and behavioral health services. They host

234-515: Is the region's only academic university-level teaching hospital , and is the largest hospital in the system. UMMMC is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School . Emergency Care at UMass Memorial Medical Center is the only center in the region that is verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level 1 Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center . They also offer LifeFlight air ambulance for emergency response. Attached to

260-749: The University of Massachusetts and primarily serving Central Massachusetts . It is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, and is the clinical partner of the UMass Chan Medical School . Memorial Hospital was founded in 1871 as the Washburn Dispensary. Worcester industrialist Ichabod Washburn endowed it through a bequest in memory of his wife and daughters. Memorial Hospital moved to its current location in 1888 and later merged with Hahnemann Hospital (founded in 1896) and Holden Hospital to become

286-574: The conversations of the learned with the duties of a mechanic's son, and whose ideas and teachings now underlie the civilization of the world. Along with John Boynton , another prominent Worcester industrialist, he founded the Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science in 1865. Its name was later changed to Worcester Polytechnic Institute . The collaboration between Boynton, who wanted to teach science, and Washburn, who wanted to teach vocational skills, led to

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312-644: The Medical Center of Central Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts Medical Center (University Hospital) opened in 1974 as the principal teaching hospital of the University of Massachusetts Medical School . UMass Memorial Health Care was formed in 1998 through the merger of Memorial Hospital with the clinical system of the University of Massachusetts UMass Medical Center has operated LifeFlight, New England's first hospital-based air ambulance, for over 30 years. UMass Memorial Health (UMM Health)

338-422: The Medical Center of Central Massachusetts. Hahnemann Hospital, founded 1896 The University of Massachusetts Medical Center (University Hospital) opened in 1974 as the principal teaching hospital of the University of Massachusetts Medical School . In 1991, UMass Medical Center became the home of Worcester EMS services after Worcester City Hospital closed. UMass Memorial Healthcare was formed in 1998 through

364-727: The Simonds Sinon Regional Cancer Center, Simonds-Hurd Complementary Care Center, Outpatient physical therapy centers, and a Home health and hospice agency. UMass Memorial Health- Marlborough Hospital has campuses in Marlborough and Southborough, MA. The hospital has 79 licensed beds. It campus offers a variety of healthcare services including emergency care, comprehensive cardiac care services, surgical services, behavioral health services, diagnostic imaging, intensive care, cancer care, and laboratory services. Its other services include Woman's imaging, MedWorks (Occupational Health), Colonoscopy/endoscopy imaging, and

390-475: The campus. Lincoln College, established in 1865 at Topeka, Kansas , changed its name in 1868 to Washburn college after receiving a bequest of $ 25,000 from Ichabod Washburn's estate. [REDACTED] Washburn College adopted a variation of the Washbourne arms as its emblem, substituting the school colors for the tinctures of the arms. Since becoming a university, however, Washburn has abandoned use of

416-539: The downgrading of the system's rating by Moody's Investors service in 2013. In response to this criticism and challenges, UMMHC underwent significant restructuring towards a more lean business model. Shedding of assets included the sale of UMass home healthcare and hospice business, UMass outreach laboratories and the Caitlin Raymond International Registry (although dissociation from the latter has been postulated to also relate to

442-509: The education of apprentices to mechanical employments, whereby moral and intellectual training might be united with the processes by which the arts of mechanism as well as skill in the use and adaptation of tools and machinery are taught, so as to elevate our mechanics as a class in the scale of intelligence and influence, and add to their personal independence and happiness , while it renders them better and more useful citizens , and so more like our Divine Master , whose youth combined

468-440: The foundation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts . Washburn became an apprentice in a Leicester, Massachusetts blacksmith shop at the age of sixteen. He attended Leicester Academy with his distant relative Emory Washburn (later Governor of Massachusetts ) and Stephen Salisbury II, both of whom would many years later help in the founding of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. By 1865, Washburn

494-557: The medical center is the UMass Hospital for Children that treats infants, children, adolescents, and young adults up to the age of 21. The hospital was known as Memorial Hospital, which was founded in 1871 as the Washburn Dispensary. Worcester industrialist Ichabod Washburn endowed it through a bequest in memory of his wife and daughters. Memorial Hospital moved to its current location in 1888 and later merged with Hahnemann Hospital (founded in 1896) and Holden Hospital to become

520-413: The merger of Memorial Hospital with the clinical system of the University of Massachusetts. The merger was a result of higher insurance costs and the system has increased hospital revenue and amount of patient beds. UMass Medical Center has operated LifeFlight, New England's first hospital-based air ambulance, for over 30 years. In 2018, a renovation project to the medical center was completed that included

546-499: The only level 1 pediatric trauma center in the region. The hospital is the only children's hospital in central Massachusetts. UMass Memorial Health - HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital has campuses in Clinton, Leominster and Fitchburg, MA. 40 service areas are available at the hospital, which is a full-service, acute care hospital with 163 beds, over 1,600 employees and 400 physicians. The Central New England HealthAlliance also includes

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572-565: The public criticism of the Registry's practices ). A number of employee positions (reportedly over 500), predominantly in non-patient contact areas, were also eliminated in an effort to improve system efficiency. In December 2013, UMMHC announced its intent to transfer ownership of Wing Memorial hospital to Baystate Health in Springfield, MA . Following the above changes, along with an effort to standardize clinical and business processes,

598-529: The system reported a stabilization of its financial position in 2014. 42°16′33.62″N 71°45′43.54″W  /  42.2760056°N 71.7620944°W  / 42.2760056; -71.7620944 Ichabod Washburn Ichabod Washburn (1798–1868) was an American Congregational deacon and industrialist from Worcester County, Massachusetts . His financial endowments led to the naming of Washburn College, now Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and

624-526: The university's philosophy of "theory and practice." Washburn suffered a paralyzing stroke in February 1868 and died on December 31 of that year, only a month after the Institute opened and before the completion of the shop building. Boynton died before the first class entered in 1868. Their contributions to WPI in its infancy are memorialized by Boynton Hall and Washburn Shops, the first two buildings on

650-423: Was co-proprietor (with his son-in-law Philip Moen) of Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company, the world's largest wire mill. The company manufactured piano wire , crinoline and supports for hoop skirts , wire for fences and other similar products. Washburn was interested in setting up a vocational school for mechanics and wrote: I have long been satisfied that a course of instruction might be adopted in

676-417: Was criticized for being inefficient. In addition, changes in healthcare reimbursement impacted the Medical Center more severely than other hospitals as its proportion of Medicaid patient business, the state-federal health plan for the poor that tends to be less lucrative for hospitals, is 25% higher than the statewide average (24% in 2012 compared to state average of 19%). The financial decline culminated in

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