State Sen. Jamie Eldridge and state Reps. Margaret Scarsdale and Lindsay Sabadosa refiled a bill this past week to establish a single-payer health care system in Massachusetts.
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UMass Memorial Health proposes to build emergency department in Nashoba Valley
UMass Memorial Health announced a plan Wednesday to build a new standalone emergency department in the Nashoba Valley Region to partially fill the void left by the closure of Ayer’s Nashoba Valley Medical Center last year.
Scarsdale, Archambault face off for 1st Middlesex House District seat
PEPPERELL — Incumbent first-term Democratic Rep. Margaret Scarsdale is facing Republican challenger Lynne Archambault in the race for the 1st Middlesex District seat in the state’s House of Representatives.
Editorial: Will hospitals’ dire financial state move lawmakers to act?
The financial collapse of Steward Health Care, which has dominated the headlines over the past several months, has overshadowed the operating struggles experienced by several other of the state’s medical facilities. That “deeply troubling trend” emerged from new financial data released by a state agency, which found that more than half of acute-care hospitals in […]
Healey seizes control of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton to keep hospital open
Gov. Maura Healey said her administration “seized” control of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton Friday as part of a plan to turn over the medical center to Boston Medical Center from an asset management company.
‘It is just as we thought it would be’: Fire chiefs lament impacts of NVMC closure
It has been a little more than a week since the Aug. 31 closure of Nashoba Valley Medical Center, and some local fire officials are already seeing the consequences.
