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Download the 2022 Greater Lowell Community Health Needs Assessment.

Sixty-year-old Mary D. of Winthrop recalls waking up one morning two years ago over the New Year’s holiday and immediately realizing something wasn’t right. “My face felt a little funny,” she says. “I was putting on makeup and couldn’t close my eye correctly. By the end of the day, it was much worse.”

Tufts Medical Center has received Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the highest national honor bestowed upon healthcare organizations for excellence in nursing.

Tufts Medicine and Lowell General Hospital today announced the launch of Blue Zones Activate, a comprehensive initiative that uses an evidence-based approach to make healthy choices easier in all the places people spend the most time and that leads to reductions in disparities and improvements in well-being.

Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine announced today that Jason Hall, MD, a colon and rectal surgeon and an internationally renowned expert in diverticular disease, has been named Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Surgery and Benjamin Andrews Chair of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Eight-week-old Abegael spent six long weeks in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Tufts Medical Center in Boston battling respiratory failure due to RSV.

Read the testimonial of a patient who traveled from Portugal to get exceptional care from the pediatric ENT team at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

Luis was born with a craniofacial abnormality, but his twin was not. A year later, thanks to Tufts Medical Center, Luis and his twin now look identical.

Tufts Medicine and Acadia Healthcare Company, the largest standalone provider of behavioral health services in the U.S., announced that they are forming a joint venture to build a 144-bed inpatient behavioral health facility on the site of the former Malden Hospital in Malden, Mass.

Maureen Ducharme knew that she couldn't put off the procedure any longer. In 2009, Ducharme, 55, from Springfield, suffered two strokes within a couple of weeks.

BOSTON, MA – March 1, 2022 – Wellforce, the high quality, integrated Massachusetts health system, announced today it will be uniting its member organizations under a new name – Tufts Medicine.

The Wellforce Health System today announced it plans to convert its 41 Tufts Children’s Hospital pediatric inpatient beds to much-needed adult ICU and medical/surgical beds.

Innovative reconstructive surgery restores quality of life.

Boston magazine has released its annual listing of Boston’s Top Doctors and this year’s recognition includes 12 members of the MelroseWakefield Healthcare medical staff among the area’s most respected experts.

Boston Magazine has honored 154 Tufts Medical Center physicians as 2022 Boston “Top Doctors.”

Local residents receiving care for heart failure, kidney failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at MelroseWakefield Hospital are receiving the highest levels of care in the region according to the latest hospital rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

Madigan brings decades of marketing, branding and strategy experience to the Wellforce health system.

New Formula predicts with high accuracy which patients with recurring stroke would benefit from PFO closure.

BURLINGTON, MA, December 13, 2021 – Wellforce today announced that Emily Young, MBA, has been named President of its newly formed Clinically Integrated Network (CIN).

Tufts Medical Center has been recognized as High Performing in Maternity Care (Uncomplicated Pregnancy) by U.S. News & World Report, in its 2021 Best Hospitals for Maternity rating.