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At Boston College, trained actors help nursing students learn to break the bad news
The actors, known as "standardized patients," are there to provide a level of face-to-face training not available in any textbook.
To retain its priced-out workers, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is spending $38 million to build apartments
The 48-unit apartment building — a project six years in the making — is a critical investment in the hospital's ability to retain a large enough staff to sustain essential functions.
Mass. state lab struggles as Trump reshapes federal health funding
The Massachusetts Public Health Laboratory is accustomed to strong support from the CDC. Now it is learning to go it alone.
Here’s how the Trump administration’s termination of a federal advisory committee on newborn screening will impact Mass.
Massachusetts screens for 35 out of 38 conditions on the federal list.
NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts
New rules are the next step in the Trump administration’s assault on campus diversity programs and allegations of antisemitism.
Primary care doctors at Mass General Brigham score victory on path to unionization
The National Labor Relations Board sided with the physicians on a dispute regarding the size of the proposed bargaining unit, setting the stage for a union election next month.
Steward paid them a fraction of what it owed. Now it’s suing them to get the money back.
The bankrupt health system has filed lawsuits against roughly 170 vendors, seeking to claw back millions of dollars it paid in the weeks and months before it filed for Chapter 11 protection last year.
Six cases of benign brain tumors among nurses at one Newton-Wellesley Hospital unit spark uneasiness among workers
Disease trackers say it's unlikely the cases are connected, although definitive answers may be elusive.
