Health services leader Optum has named Lowell General Hospital’s Center for Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery a Resource Services Center of Excellence (COE) for providing cost-effective, quality health care to patients receiving bariatric surgery and other related services that address the long-term health risks associated with morbid obesity.

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized Lowell General Hospital as one of 89 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2019.  As a participant in ACS NSQIP, Lowell General is required to track the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and collect data that assesses patient safety and can be used to direct improvement in the quality of surgical care.

MelroseWakefield Hospital began administering the second round of COVID-19 vaccines earlier last week, 21 days after frontline workers received the first dose.

2 MIRI PIs named 2021 Boston Magazine “Top Docs.”

Many of us are glad to see the end of 2020! We welcome 2021 with hope and optimism. And if you are like many others, with new goals and resolutions.

Boston Magazine has honored 157 Tufts Medical Center physicians as 2021 Boston “Top Doctors.”

A second COVID-19 field hospital in Massachusetts is scheduled to begin accepting patients Monday morning.

Circle Health’s affiliated physicians are some of the best in New England in their respective fields.

The Lowell General Hospital Alternative Care Site (ACS) received its first patient from Lowell General at approximately 1 p.m. on Monday, January 4, and officials expect more admissions in the coming days.

More than 2,000 babies are born each year at The Birthplace at Lowell General Hospital, but only one can be first.