Worcester Business Journal

6 Worcester Business Journal • January 4, 2016 www.wbjournal.com 10 Hammond St , Worcester 01610-1513 508-798-0191 • www.ccworc.org Bishop McManus and Catholic Charities thank our donors, volunteers and sponsors for making the 2015 Bishop's Holiday Dinners possible. Over 3,000 hot meals were served over Thanksgiving and Christmas day. You've made a difference! Platinum Corporate Sponsor J.J. Bafaro, Inc. Mark Sullivan Trucking Co. Saint Francis Community Health Care Foundation Saint Vincent Hospital TD Bank Gold Corporate Sponsor Camosse Masonry Supply Consigli Construction Company, Inc. Fallon Health Hanover Insurance Group Foundation, Inc. Silver Corporate Sponsor Chacharone Properties, LLC Coghlin Electrical Contractors, Inc. The Coghlin Companies Fletcher-Terry The Granite Group David Grenon Family Foundation Grimes & Co. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Honey Farms, Inc. Imperial Distributors iSun International Group, LLC Lamoureux Pagano & Associates, Inc. Machado Consulting Metso Automation USA, Inc. The Monahan Group Pagano Media, Inc. Performance Management Group, Inc. Reliant Medical Group Sullivan, Garrity & Donnelly Insurance Agency Sullivan Insurance Group, Inc. Thomas J. Woods Insurance Agency, Inc. UniBank In-Kind Sponsor Broadway Restaurant Chartwells Food Service Duva Distributors Inc. LAZ Parking Maines Paper & Food Service Table Talk Pie Co. Media Sponsor Telegram & Gazette Worcester Business Journal Worcester Magazine Charter TV3 The largest employer in Worcester reported revenue of just under $2.174 billion for 2015, a growth of $21.8 mil- lion over fiscal year 2014. This came as a sign of continuing growth and turn- around for the organization over the course of the 2015 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. The network of hospitals saw growth in discharges of 2,000 over the prior year, according to Sergio Melgar, the organization's chief financial officer. This growth was spread throughout the entire system. This combined with keep- ing costs controlled allowed the organi- zation to catch that rising volume and achieve its margins, Melgar said during a conference call Friday. The organization has also seen an uptick in outpatient services, he said. Melgar confirmed that the patient mix that was previously 52 percent inpatient and 48 percent outpatient had flipped directly around, with 52 percent of patients for the system being outpatient in 2015. This comes as the hospital con- tinues to decentralize, Dickson said. Worcester secures $3.6M in streetscape funds Two of Worcester's major thorough- fares -- including one of its main com- mercial corridors of Shrewsbury Street -- will get major improvements in 2016. The city will be putting out to bid a roughly $3.6 million repaving project for the entirety of Shrewsbury Street and a large portion of Hamilton Street this month. The project will be funded using CSX mitigation funds, according to City Manager Edward Augustus, Jr. Work is expected to begin in April. In the last year the city has put $21.5 million into streets and sidewalks, according to Augustus, and the city is planning a $7.5 million project to reshape Main Street. MassDEP fines Leominster company $14K The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is demanding a Leominster asbestos removal contractor pay a previously suspended $14,312.50 pen- alty after it found the company violated state asbestos regulations twice in one year. A & E Environmental was fined $19,312.50 in May 2014 after MassDEP found it violated asbestos removal proto- col at a residential building in Millbury, according to a release from MassDEP. At the time, MassDEP collected $5,000 of the penalty and suspended the rest of the charges under the condition that A & E not violate any more of its requirements for a year. However, on Dec. 30, 2014, MassDEP found A & E failed to properly seal a work area and that they didn't use a HEPA- filtered air ventilation system to control asbestos fibers at a job on Lake Street in Shrewsbury, according to a release from MassDEP. MassDEP immediately ordered the A & E workers to fix the violations at the time of the inspection, and asked the company to pay the remaining $14,312.50 of its initial penalty. Mount Wachusett announces $30 classes Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner has launched classes that will be offered to high school students for $30 each, including books. The program, created through the Commonwealth Dual Enrollment Partnership (CDEP) at Mount Wachusett Community College, will allow students to enroll in courses for $30 using grant funds to cover the extra costs. These classes include English composi- tion, introduction to psychology and strategic management. In September, MWCC was awarded a $50,000 CDEP grant from the Department of Higher Education. n REGIONAL BRIEFS Worcester County fell behind the rest of the pack in Massachusetts in November for condominium sales, which grew statewide by 16.5 percent. Condos outpaced single-family home sales, which grew 10 percent compared to November 2014. Middling condo sales >> Continued from previous page Barnstable Berkshire Bristol Dukes Essex Franklin Hampden Middlesex Nantucket Norfolk Plymouth Suffolk Worcester 16% 12.6% 50% 38.8% 29.6% 38.8% 7% -8% -1% 7% 24.4% -0.6% 37.5% 6.5% Hampshire Source: The Warren Group % growth in condo sales, November 2015 vs. November 2014

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