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6 HEALTH • Fall 2018 { Briefs } Continued from Page 5 UMass Memorial - Community Healthlink | UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital | UMass Memorial - Marlborough Hospital UMass Memorial Medical Center | UMass Memorial Medical Group START A LIFETIME OF GOOD HEALTH WITH US Eating right and exercising are two keys to staying healthy. UMass Memorial would like to add one more to that list – finding a good primary care physician. With our network of doctors at more than 80 locations throughout Central Massachusetts, finding the right primary care physician is simple. • Care for the whole family with the largest adult and pediatric primary care network in the region • Referral to highly specialized care at our nationally recognized UMass Memorial Medical Center Find your physician by calling 855-UMASS-MD (855-862-7763) www.umassmemorial.org/mypcp insurance claims and creation of addiction treatment programs. Eight manufacturers are defendants: Purdue Pharma, Janssen, Endo, Actavis, Mallinckrodt, Teva, Collegium and Insys. Saint Vincent CEO resigns, with interim at the reins Jeffrey Welch has departed Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham and other affiliates just over a year after becoming CEO for parent company Tenet Healthcare's hospitals in Massachusetts and South Carolina. He will now oversee Tenet hospitals in the Miami, Fla., area. Saint Vincent's Chief Operating Officer Ava Jo Collins is interim CEO. Welch was named the head of Dallas-based Tenet's Massachusetts operations in May 2017. He joined from Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center in Florida. VNA enters management deal with CEO's former organization Worcester-based VNA Care has entered into a management agree- ment with Porchlight VNA/Home Care, which was previously led by VNA Care President and CEO Holly Chaffee. Chaffee held that same role with Chicopee-based Porchlight from 2009 to January 2018 before taking the lead at VNA Care. Now, she'll resume leadership of that organization along with VNA Care's senior leadership team. Together, the joint organization spans a geography covering more than 250 cities and towns in Massachusetts, and 10 counties. Hologic expands HIV, hepatitis testing access Marlborough medical-imaging device firm Hologic launched an initiative to expand affordable access to molecular testing for HIV, hepatitis B and C, and HPV. The Hologic Global Access Initiative, partnering with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the U.K.- backed MedAccess, will enable pub- lic-sector programs in select low- and-middle-income countries to access Hologic's Panther system for $12 per patient sample with no upfront costs or capital expenditure. The agreement was also announced by the U.K's Department for International Development, Unitaid, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, The African Society for Laboratory Medicine and the government of Zambia at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. Boston Scientific profits at $555M in Q2 Marlborough medical-device giant Boston Scientific reported a $555-million profit and nearly $2.5 billion in sales for the second quar- ter, near the top end of the compa- ny's guidance range. Earnings per share for the quarter were 40 cents compared to 11 cents per share in last year's second quarter. The com- pany's second-quarter sales number represents a 10.3-percent increase over sales figures for the same period last year, and its net income repre- sents a 280-percent bump from the same period. The company's sales and profit numbers are up for the year, with sales rising about 9.3 per- cent to $4.87 billion and profit shoot- ing up 95.6 percent to $853 million. New Nashoba Valley Medical Center president Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer has a new interim president in Korri Dow. Dow replaces Sal Perla, who was named the president of Norwood Hospital, which, like Nashoba Valley Medical Center, is part of Boston-based Steward Health Care. Perla had been the Nashoba Valley president since 2014. Dow was previously a Medicare auditor at Blue Cross & Blue Shield, a reimbursement ana- lyst at Boston Medical Center and a senior accountant at Emerson Hospital. She has an MBA from Fitchburg State University and has been with Nashoba Valley for more than a decade. H

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