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UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) announced Tuesday that Milford Regional
Medical Center, inclusive of Milford Regional Physician Group, and
its employees are now formally part of the UMMH system. Milford
Regional Medical Center’s name is now officially UMass Memorial
Health – Milford Regional Medical Center.
“We welcome
Milford Regional caregivers to the UMass Memorial Health family and
look forward to supporting Milford Regional as it advances its
commitment to providing exceptional healthcare services to the
greater Milford community,” said Eric Dickson, MD, President and
CEO of UMass Memorial Health.
UMass Memorial
welcomes approximately 2,500 Milford Regional employees and
providers, which grows the system to include more than 20,000
caregivers. Ed Kelly, President of Milford Regional, will continue
his role and will join the UMass Memorial Health’s senior
leadership team.
Among the positive
benefits offered by this new affiliation, according to UMMH, are:
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Preserving Milford Regional Medical Center as
an acute care hospital offering inpatient and outpatient services,
ensuring access to high quality, local care for the Milford
community; -
Supporting strategic capital investment in
facilities, equipment and other infrastructure to support clinical
care and the local community; -
Future integration of Milford Regional into
the Epic electronic medical record system; -
Maintaining Milford Regional’s role as an
employer of choice in the local/regional market, and enhancing
Milford Regional’s ability to address ongoing workforce
challenges; and -
Retaining a local community board of trustees,
with Milford Regional having representation on the UMass Memorial
parent board.
“Since first
clinically partnering more than thirty years ago, our two
organizations have realized much success through multiple points of
patient-centered collaboration. Taking our longstanding partnership
with Milford Regional to this next level allows UMass Memorial Health
to meaningfully expand our continued work to provide high-quality,
accessible, and affordable care to the communities of Central
Massachusetts,” Dickson added.
“This
is the right time and UMass Memorial Health is the right partner to
pave the path for our promising future,” said Kelly, who explained
further that UMMH and Milford Regional began their
collaboration in 1991 when Milford Regional Medical Center became the
first hospital to clinically affiliate with UMass Memorial Medical
Center. “Since then, many additional clinical and educational
programs have been created with UMMH to bolster the level of care
offered to the greater Milford community through the Milford-based
residency program; multiple surgical programs; and our innovative
intensive care service, to name a few.”
According to
Kelly, Milford Regional’s ability to provide highly specialized
care, locally, is further enhanced as it will preserve its existing
clinical relationships with other academic medical centers, including
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
Boston Children’s Hospital.
Today,
Milford Regional is a nonprofit, acute care community and regional
teaching hospital that includes a 148-beds and 300 primary and
specialty physicians that serves a region of 20-plus towns. Milford
Regional has a long history of investing in community health needs;
as part of its most recent renovation and expansion in 2015, it
opened a 78,000 square-foot building that houses a new emergency
department, intensive care unit and private patient rooms.
To learn more
about the corporate affiliation between UMass Memorial Health and
Milford Regional, you can visit
https://www.milfordregional.org/about-us/umass-memorial-health-affiliation/.
