UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) is a clinical partner of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and is the largest healthcare system in Central and Western Massachusetts. UMMHC is a non-profit health care network that provides all levels of primary and quarterly health care.
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Memorial Hospital was founded in 1871 as Washburn Dispenser. Worcester Industrialist, Ichabod Washburn, awarded hospitals through inheritance in memory of his wife and daughter. Memorial Hospital moved to its current location in 1888 and later joined Hahnemann Hospital (founded in 1896) and Holden Hospital to become the Central Massachusetts Medical Center.
The University of Massachusetts Medical Center (University Hospital) opened in 1974 as a primary education hospital at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. UMass Memorial Healthcare was formed in 1998 through the merger of Memorial Hospital with a clinical system from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. UMass has operated LifeFlight, the first hospital air ambulance in New England, for over 30 years.
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Facilities
UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) is a non-profit health network located in Worcester, Massachusetts affiliated with University of Massachusetts Medical School. UMMHC consists of UMass Memorial Medical Center, Trauma Center Level 1 and the main education hospital at UMass Medical School, as well as three community hospitals and a number of ambulatory clinics throughout Central Massachusetts.
The organization has more than 1,200 active medical staff and 2,200 registered nurses active in more than 22 communities. They also offer emergency services such as LifeFlight, long-term care facilities, home health and rehabilitation and behavioral health services. They also offer various seminars and patient classes of information on topics related to health throughout the year.
UMass Memorial Medical Center :
UMass Memorial Medical Center consists of three campuses in Worcester, MA: University Campus, Memorial Campus, and Hahnemann Campus. They offer treatments in over 41 different service areas. Emergency Care at the UMass Memorial Medical Center is the only center in the region verified by the American College of Surgeons as Level 1 Trauma Center. They also offer LifeFlight air ambulances for emergency response.
UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital : UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital has campuses in Clinton, Leominster and Fitchburg, MA. There are 40 different service areas available in the hospital. They are a hospital full of care, acute care with 163 beds. They have more than 1,600 employees and 400 doctors. Central New England HealthAlliance also includes Simonds Sinon Regional Cancer Center, Simonds-Hurd Compondary Treatment Center, Outpatient physical therapy center, and a health home and hospital agent.
UMass Memorial - Marlborough Hospital has campuses in Marlborough and Southborough, MA. Marlborough Campus offers a range of health care services including emergency care, comprehensive heart care services, surgical services, behavioral health services, diagnostic imaging, intensive care, cancer treatments and laboratory services. Services at the Southborough campus include Female imagery, MedWorks (Occupational Health), colonoscopy/endoscopy imaging, and various specialist doctors. They also offer physical rehabilitation services in Marlborough, MA.
Awards and acknowledgments
- The UMass Memorial Medical Center has been ranked number one in New England hospitals to survive and treat heart attacks for years. In 2008, the hospital ranked second in the United States to survive a heart attack.
- The UMass Memorial Medical Center is recognized in Reviews Becker Hospital (2016 edition) is among "100 hospitals and healthcare systems with a great cardiac program".
- The UMass Memorial Medical Center was identified as one of 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in the US by Truven Health Analytics.
- The heart surgery program of UMass Memorial Medical Center, UMMHC's premier hospital, has earned the highest-rated 3-star rating for consistently performing cardiac bypass graft from the US Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) since reporting began in 2006. Hospitals has also earned the highest 3 star rating for aortic valve replacement and combined heart surgery. Only 1.6% of US cardiac surgery programs (17 out of 1009) in the STS database achieve high quality standards in all three categories.
- UMass Memorial Medical Center is the first hospital in Central Massachusetts that offers aortic transcatheter valve replacement and mitral valve repair. It is also the only hospital in New England with access to an endovascular graft produced specifically for minimally invasive treatment of aortic aneurysms thoracoabdominal.
- The UMass Memorial Medical Center has received the best pharmaceutical health system award by pharmacist Massachusetts Society of Health-system.
- UMass Memorial receives the 11th Annual Cheers Award by the Institute for Safe Medical Practice in recognition of the work of the medical center to prevent medication errors and improve patient safety. UMass's pharmaceutical residency program is the largest in New England. UMass Memorial and UMass Medical School offer one of only two graduate residency programs in a country dedicated to treatment security.
- Clinton's hospitals are consistently rated amongst country leaders in patient satisfaction; in 2013 Clinton Hospital was declared the best hospital in New England for patient satisfaction. HealthAlliance hospital ranks number one in safety in Massachusetts by leading consumer ratings magazines in 2012 and 2013.
Criticism and restructuring
UMass Memorial Healthcare faced a declining financial decline over a 5-year period, beginning with an operating surplus of $ 83 million in 2009 to a $ 55 million operating loss in fiscal 2013. The organization was criticized for being inefficient. In addition, changes in health care reimbursement have a greater impact on the Medical Center than other hospitals because of the proportion of Medicaid patient businesses, the federal state health plan for poor people who tend to be less profitable for hospitals, 25% higher than average across States. (24% in 2012 compared with the country average of 19%). The financial downgrade culminated in a downgrade of the system by Moody's Investors service in 2013.
In response to these critiques and challenges, UMMHC underwent significant restructuring towards a more streamlined business model. Shedding assets include sale of health care homes and UMass hospice homes, UMass outreach laboratories and Caitlin Raymond International Registry (although the dissociation of the latter has been postulated to also relate to public criticism of Registry practice). A number of employee positions (reported over 500), especially in the field of non-patient contact, were also eliminated in an effort to improve system efficiency. In December 2013, UMMHC announced its intention to transfer ownership of the Wing Memorial hospital to Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. Following the above changes, along with efforts to standardize clinical and business processes, the system reports on stabilizing its financial position in 2014.
See also
- The University of Massachusetts
- The University of Massachusetts School of Medicine
References
External links
- UMass Memorial Health Care
- The University of Massachusetts School of Medicine
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