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DR. ERIC DICKSON oversees a sprawling health care system that cares for lots of low-income families throughout central Massachusetts, many of whom are wondering how they’ll pay their rent or afford groceries after suddenly losing their income in the avalanche of job losses being unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic. Without help, the CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care says his hospital system could soon be in the same boat…

The man had come to the UMass Memorial Hospital emergency room complaining of a cough, and said he'd been in contact with a coworker who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. Dickson, the CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, had returned to the ER in April to do weekly shifts during the pandemic…

Dr. Eric Dickson, the president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, is urging the Worcester-based health system's employees to get the coronavirus vaccine when it's expected to begin giving doses next …

WORCESTER - The UMass Memorial Health Care System has received nearly $75 million in federal funding for the coronavirus pandemic, but the system is still facing a deficit of almost as much. ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Eric Dickson, the CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, and Dr. Cathy Jones, Dicksons’ wife and a UMass Memorial physician, are donating all of their paychecks to the health care system’s employee assistance fund, officials said Friday…

While some health care systems in Massachusetts laid off or furloughed workers as one coronavirus patient after another flowed into their hospitals this spring, UMass Memorial Health Care kept all its employees working…

Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. said that the city and UMass Memorial Health Care plan to share COVID-19 data in an effort to understand why some groups, specifically the Latino population in Central Massachusetts, have been more affected by the respiratory illness…

UMass Memorial Health Care is giving bonuses of $500 to full-time caregivers and smaller amounts to those who work part time, President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson said in a staff memo Monday. The bonuses take a step further what Dickson has said since the height of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring: He won't let the financial hit the hospital network has taken lead to layoffs or furloughs or other financial decisions that could harm the hospitals longer-term in their ability to provide care…

Long before Dickson took on the task of leading a 13,000-employee hospital system through the coronavirus pandemic – and managed a related field hospital at the DCU Center in Worcester – UMass Memorial Health Care’s president and CEO proved himself up to difficult jobs.

WORCESTER - With the peak of coronavirus over, Dr. Eric W. Dickson, CEO and president of UMass Memorial Health Care, has diagnosed himself with writer’s cramp from penning so many thank-you notes enclosed with bottles of his homemade maple syrup…

WORCESTER - Many hospitals hate the idea. Pharmaceutical companies, health insurance groups and hospital trade groups are lobbying against it. In fact, for many in the health care industry, the only thing universal about Medicare for All is disdain.

In the midst of dealing with the start of a second coronavirus surge, some hospitals are also readying to respond to election turmoil.Much about the election may remain uncertain in the coming days or weeks, as votes are tallied across the country. But

A group of Worcester area leaders on Thursday said that being anti-racist and addressing internal biases is what’s needed amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has affected the region’s Latinx and Black residents to a higher degree.

“If you’re struggling with food security, housing security or job security, and you don’t have transportation, it’s a little hard to get to a well child visit,” Dickson said. “But if all those things are secure for you, then of course you’re going to bring your kid to the pediatrician to be seen.”