Phet Gouvonvong is among those killed in a confrontation with police in Central Massachusetts in recent years.
Cases involving fatalities at the hands of police have garnered increased scrutiny since the murder of George Floyd last May.
There have been 42 fatal shootings by police officers in Massachusetts since 2015, as tracked by a Washington Post database. More than 6,300 people have been shot and killed by on-duty police officers in the U.S. since 2015.
The rate of shootings has remained steady, reports The Washington Post. Nearly 1,000 people die every year in police incidents. This means, on average, two to three people die every day in encounters with police.
Milford Regional Gets 5-Star Rating From Medicare, Medicaid Group - Milford, MA - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released ratings on nearly 5,000 hospitals across the U.S. this week.
MEDWAY - A Medway man suffered “critical” injuries Tuesday when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a car driven by a Holliston woman, according to police.
Gianuluca “John” DeMartinis, 51, was taken to UMass-Memorial Medical Center in Worcester after the 9:40 p.m. crash on Main Street (Rte. 109), authorities said.
A spokesman for UMass-Memorial Medical Center said Wednesday he did not have an update on DeMartinis’ condition.
On Tuesday, police receive several 911 calls about a crash at the intersection of Main Street and Carol Lane between a motorcycle and car.
The motorcyclist, DeMartinis, was seriously injured. The driver of the car, Mikayla Boyzcko, 20, of Holliston, was taken to Milford Regional Medical Center to be evaluated, according to police.
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MILFORD Milford Regional Medical Center has been nationally recognized for the sixth time in a row with an “A” for the Spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
The distinction recognizes Milford Regional’s achievements in protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to health care quality and safety. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” grade to all general hospitals across the country and is updated every six months. It is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospitals’ prevention of medical errors and other harms to patients in their care.
These are the best hospitals in Massachusetts, according to the spring 2021 Leapfrog safety report
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Healthcare providers in Massachusetts, take a bow.
Hospitals in Massachusetts were ranked first in the nation in Leapfrog’s Spring 2021 hospital safety report.
Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization focused on healthcare safety, has issued the report twice a year since spring 2012. Over the past nine years, three hospitals in Massachusetts have received straight A’s: Beverly Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, and Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River.
The nonprofit assigns letter grades to over 2,600 hospitals nationwide based on more than two dozen performance measures ranging from “responsiveness of hospital staff” to surgical outcomes and other measures of patient care.