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HEALTH • Spring 2015 7 Clinton Hospital | HealthAlliance Hospital | Marlborough Hospital | UMass Memorial Medical Center At UMass Memorial Health Care, you'll find hundreds of caring, compassionate and skilled adult and pediatric primary care physicians across Central Massachusetts. And because our doctors are part of the region's premier health care system, access to a wide range of specialty care and our nationally recognized academic medical center is only a referral away. To find a UMass Memorial primary care physician near you, call 855-UMASS-MD (855-862-7763). I WANT IT ALL I want convenience I want compassion I want world-class care dent and CEO since 1990. Kelly is a 30-year veteran of the health care industry, having served in senior- level roles at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham and Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick. He came to Milford Regional in 1993 as chief financial officer and was promoted to executive vice president in 1998, and named president in 2008. MARLBOROUGH — Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston is developing an exoskeleton train- ing program using the systems made by ReWalk Robotics of Marlborough. The Spaulding team has completed basic training on the ReWalk system, which is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides powered hip and knee motion to enable individuals with spinal cord injury to stand upright and walk. MARLBOROUGH — Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Marlborough has submitted a sup- plemental new drug application to the Food and Drug Administration. The application seeks approval for the use of Aptiom for monotherapy treatment of partial-onset seizures in patients with epilepsy. The prescrip- tion medicine is already approved for use as an adjunctive treatment of partial-onset seizures. WORCESTER — The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $9.5-million grant to investigators at the University of Massachusetts Medical School to establish a research center that would investi- gate the cause and treatment the most common form of inherited intellectual and developmental dis- ability, known as Fragile X. Principal investigator Joel D. Richter, professor of molecular medicine, said Fragile X comes from a single inactive gene, causing an increase in protein cre- ation in the brain. Research is focus- ing on rebalancing that protein. WORCESTER — Fallon Health of Worcester said it earned $1.9 million in the third quarter of this year on revenue of $323 million. While the revenue marked a 2.2-percent gain over the third quarter of 2013, the net income represented a drop of nearly 65 percent. But Fallon spent $3.4 million during the quarter for hepatitis C treatment and paid a $2.3-million fee tied to the federal Affordable Care Act, the health ser- vices organization said in a state- ment. The latest results were in line with expectations, said R. Scott Walker, Fallon's executive vice presi- dent and CFO. Fallon's membership grew year over year, it said. WORCESTER — Worcester-based Reliant Medical Group Foundation, the charitable arm of Reliant Medical Group, said it has reached its goal of distributing more than $250,000 in annual grants to pro- mote community health, a record for the organization. The foundation said it issued $106,000 to various local organizations, pushing it past the $250,000 mark for 2014. The grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations within Reliant's Central Massachusetts service area to help improve the health and well- being of the population, with a pri- mary focus on battling childhood obesity. WORCESTER — A professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School is one of six biomedical researchers to be awarded with a Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his co-discovery in genetics, the Worcester school announced. Victor R. Ambros, a professor of molecular medicine, was honored with his long-time collaborator, Gary Ruvkun, a genetics professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The pair discovered a new world of genetic regulation by microRNAs, according to a statement from UMass Medical. Private health insurance companies in Massachusetts will cover metha- done treatment for people recover- ing from drug addiction starting this summer. Previously methadone treatment was covered by only some private plans and all Medicaid plans. Doctors Express, an urgent-care franchise with locations in Central Massachusetts, will offer health care to patients of physicians who belong to the Central Massachusetts Independent Physicians Association (CMIPA) under a new partnership that both organizations said will improve access to urgent care. Jim Brennan, CEO of Medvest LLC, the master developer of Doctors Express in the New England region, said the deal is similar to one Medvest recently inked with Boston-based Steward Health Care. Both partner- ships allow patients to receive insured care at any Massachusetts Doctors Express location.

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