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Health equity forum from UMass Memorial Health Care with MassLive to focus on COVID vaccination program, availability in Central Massachusetts Updated Feb 24, 2021; Central Massachusetts residents who have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine program will be able to get answers Thursday during a health equity forum being live-streamed by UMass Memorial Health Care. The virtual forum, the second in a series from UMass Memorial, is being moderated by MassLive reporter Melissa Hanson. Panelists a...

Hospitals denounce state’s decision to shut-off vaccine supply By focusing on mass vaccination sites, the state risks leaving out the vulnerable and reluctant, critics say Email to a Friend The main entrance of Massachusetts General Hospital.Erin Clark/Globe Staff Hospital leaders and physicians expressed dismay on Friday at the Baker administration’s decision to halt vaccine distribution to hospitals and primary care offices, saying it could undercut efforts to reach minority communi...

UMass Memorial Health Care is temporarily stopping new appointments for COVID-19 vaccines for patients because of a dose shortage, with the announcement to staff on Friday coming less than a week after the Worcester hospital system opened a patient vaccine center at the Mercantile Center. Dr. Eric Dickson, UMass Memorials president and CEO, said in a staff advisory it wont be booking any new appointments at any patient vaccine clinics for two to three weeks. The decision came after talks with s...

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COVID-19 vaccination site to open at Mercantile Center, for UMass Memorial patients Cyrus Moulton WORCESTER — UMass Memorial Health Care is setting up a COVID-19 vaccination site at Mercantile Center, adjacent to the COVID-19 testing site. But UMass Memorial Health Care President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson said the site will initially be available only to already-identified patients in the UMass Memorial system, not to the general public. In other words: Don’t call us, we’ll call you. �...

WORCESTER — The Civic Center Commission voted Thursday to start charging UMass Memorial Health Care rent for the use of the DCU Center as a COVID-19 field hospital.  Commissioners Thursday said they have been incredibly supportive of the arrangement that allowed UMass for the second time to erect a field hospital at the DCU Center, but noted that the facility has suffered staggering losses due to the pandemic, and thought it was fair to start charging rent. City Manager Edward M. Augustus, h...

UMass Memorial Health Care to start paying rent for COVID field hospital at Worcester DCU Center Updated Jan 22, 2021; UMass Memorial Health Care has agreed to start paying full rent for space it’s using at the Worcester DCU Center to run a COVID-19 field hospital. The Central Massachusetts health care system first ran a field hospital there last spring during the initial surge of the pandemic. When case counts rose again in the fall, the field hospital reopened and started treating patients...

Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marty Makary provides insight into President Biden’s coronavirus executive orders. Taming a ranging pandemic that has already claimed the lives of more than 400,000 Americans lies heavily in the rollout of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine — a process that has been slow and arduous since the emergency approval of such jabs in the U.S. But a leading physician in Massachusetts says this ongoing problem is a solvable one under freshly inaugurated President Joe...

The U.S. Fumbled Its Early Vaccine Rollout. Will the Biden Administration Put America Back on Track? Time 1/21/2021 © Evan Jenkins for TIME An employee of Westminster Place is vaccinated on Jan. 6, 2021. On a frigid morning in January, Trudy Ronnel settled into her favorite sofa chair at the Westminster Place senior-living community in Evanston, Ill., pulled down the neckline on her red blouse and braced herself for a shot she’d anticipated for almost a year. At 92 years old, with multip...

A UMass Memorial Health Care employee involved in a riot that briefly overtook the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday no longer works there, the Worcester health care system said.