Editorial: Agencies Need Real Clout to Exert Health-Care Control

Editorial: Agencies need real clout to exert health-care control

UMass Memorial Health’s unwavering decision to close the Leominster Hospital Maternity Ward sent a clear signal to Beacon Hill that the Department of Public Health needs more leverage to bear in these situations. And that can only happen through the Legislature, which must provide the DPH with the authority to make shuttering a vital medical service a difficult, painstaking process. If that were the case, UMass Memorial Health probably wouldn’t …

Amid rising costs and insurance changes, state health care officials are sticking with a cost containment strategy

At a recent primary care task force meeting, Retailers Association of Massachusetts President Jon Hurst said the benchmark "obviously has not been followed for the last decade or so."