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UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest health care system in Central and Western Massachusetts, and the clinical partner of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
UMass Memorial includes UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester, MA) and four community hospitals: Clinton Hospital (Clinton, MA), HealthAlliance Hospital (Leominster and Fitchburg, MA), Marlborough Hospital (Marlborough, MA) and Wing Memorial Hospital (Palmer, MA). Each hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission.
Our system also includes home health and hospice programs, behavioral health programs and community-based physician practices. Approximately 1,700 physicians are members of our active medical staff, and we have 13,750 employees, including 3,100 registered nurses. In total, our hospitals have 1,125 beds. In 2009, we treated 58,278 inpatients, and counted more than 1.3 million outpatients visits. We delivered 5,400 babies and our emergency departments handled 264,500 visits.
With our highly sophisticated technology and support services, UMass Memorial provides the region with specialists nationally acclaimed for their work in areas such as cardiology, orthopedics, cancer, diabetes, newborn intensive care, children’s services, women’s services, emergency medicine and trauma.
UMass Memorial Medical Center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons as the only designated Level One Trauma Center for adults and children in Central Massachusetts. Our University Campus is home to the new Duddie Massad Emergency and Trauma Center and Life Flight, New England’s first hospital-based air ambulance. The region’s only Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit resides on our Memorial Campus.
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