Company Profile
UMass Memorial Health Care
Company Overview
If you are interested in becoming an employed physician member of one of the largest, integrated multispecialty group medical practices on the East Coast, the UMass Memorial Medical Group may be just what the doctor ordered.
With more than 1,100 members, our Medical Group is a dynamic, collaborative team of primary care and specialty physicians who are committed to clinical excellence. We focus first and foremost on the health and well-being of the patients we serve.
We’re also dedicated to training the next generation of physicians – all our members serve on the faculty of the respected UMass Medical School – and translating scientific discoveries into improved outcomes through basic science, translational and clinical research.
Why Join UMass Memorial Medical Group
As part of UMass Memorial Health Care, our Medical Group offers you tremendous opportunities to:
•Combine clinical practice, education and research at a nationally recognized academic medical center and its partner medical school
•Enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits package that enables us to attract and retain top-notch physicians
•Focus on patient care instead of the daily business demands of running a practice
•Thrive in a collegial, collaborative environment that values clinical excellence and innovation
•Build your practice with a supportive infrastructure that includes a professional, proactive marketing department
Company History
Memorial Hospital was founded in 1871 as the Washburn Dispensary. Worcester industrialist Ichabod Washburn endowed the hospital through a bequest in memory of his wife and daughters.Memorial Hospital moved to its current location in 1888 and later merged with Hahnemann Hospital (founded in 1896) and Holden Hospital to become the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts.
Hahnemann Hospital, founded 1896
The University of Massachusetts Medical Center (University Hospital) opened in 1974 as the principal teaching hospital of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. UMass Memorial Healthcare was formed in 1998 through the merger of Memorial Hospital with the clinical system of the University of Massachusetts UMass Medical Center has operated LifeFlight, New England’s first hospital-based air ambulance, for over 30 years.
UMass Memorial Medical Center:
Ambulatory Care Center at UMass Memorial University site: 258,000 sq.ft clinical and research space
The UMass Memorial Medical Center includes three campuses: University Campus, Memorial Campus, and Hahnemann Campus, all located in Worcester, MA. They offer care in over 41 different service areas. The Emergency Care at UMass Memorial Medical Center is the only center in the region that is verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level 1 Trauma Center. They also offer LifeFlight air ambulance for emergency response.
Clinton Hospital:
Clinton Hospital is located on Highland Street in Clinton, MA. There are 26 different service areas that are available at the hospital ranging from emergency care to dermatology and more. The hospital’s emergency care facility was remodeled to include individual patient rooms. There is a full-service laboratory, pharmacy and diagnostic imaging (radiology), ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) scanner.
HealthAlliance Hospital:
HealthAlliance Hospital has campuses in Leominster and Fitchburg, MA. There are 40 different service areas that are available at the hospital. They are a full-service, acute care hospital with 135 beds. They have over 1,450 employees and 340 physicians. The Central New England HealthAlliance also includes the Simonds Sinon Regional Cancer Center, Simonds-Hurd Complementary Care Center, Outpatient physical therapy centers, and a Home health and hospice agency.
Marlborough Hospital:
Marlborough Hospital has campuses in Marlborough and Southborough, MA. The Marlborough campus offers a variety of health care services including emergency care, comprehensive cardiac care services, surgical services, behavioral health services, diagnostic imaging, intensive care, cancer care, and laboratory services. At the Southborough campus, the services provided include Woman’s imagine, MedWorks (Occupational Health), Colonoscopy/endoscopy imaging, and a variety of physician specialists. They also offer physical rehabilitation services in Marlborough, MA.
Benefits
UMass Memorial Medical Group at a Glance
We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) owned by UMass Memorial Health Care, one of the largest and most respected health care systems in New England.
UMass Memorial Medical Group physicians serve one million patients in Central New England and handle three million patient encounters a year.
The Medical Group has 2,200 employees which include 1,100 physicians who are UMass Medical School faculty members.
Group members – both primary care and specialist physicians – deliver care on the three Worcester campuses of UMass Memorial Medical Center and at practice sites in 22 communities throughout Central Massachusetts.
Our annual revenues are $450 million.
Learn about Physician Career Opportunities at UMass Memorial
Join our highly regarded team at UMass Memorial. Visit our Physician Careers website to learn more about the opportunities available here.
Research & Teaching
UMass Memorial Health Care and UMass Medical School are partners and leaders in quality, safe patient care, education, innovative research and community service in the Central New England region.
UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central New England with more than 13,000 employees and nearly 2,000 physicians, many of whom are members of UMass Memorial Medical Group. Our member hospitals include Clinton Hospital, HealthAlliance Hospital, Marlborough Hospital and UMass Memorial Medical Center
UMass Medical School, the state’s first and only public academic health sciences center, educates physicians, scientists and advanced practice nurses to heal, discover, teach and care, with compassion. We share a mission of advancing the health and well-being of the people of the Commonwealth and the world through pioneering advances in education, research and health care delivery.
Quality, Safe Patient Care
The clinical care services and academic programs of UMass Memorial Health Care and UMass Medical School help people across the Central New England region lead healthier lives. The physicians and other health care professionals who treat patients at UMass Memorial and teach and conduct research at the Medical School are blazing a path toward more effective and efficient health care, with a compassionate touch. For example, the UMass Memorial Health Care Cancer, Diabetes, Heart and Vascular, and Musculoskeletal Centers of Excellence deliver seamless programs of quality, safe, patient-focused care across the health care system. Developed to meet the needs of the community, the centers offer an experienced team approach to specialized treatment, advanced therapies and breakthrough clinical trials.
Innovative Research
UMass Memorial Health Care member hospitals are involved in cutting-edge research and clinical trials to help improve medical innovations of our future. Find more information about research and training initiatives by learning more about services and treatments. In addition, learn more UMass Medical School’s residency and fellowship programs by visiting the Office of Graduate Medical Education website , and the UMass Memorial Medical Center’s pharmacy residencies.
In 2010, UMass Medical School was awarded a prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Institutes of Health to create an academic home for clinical and translational science across all five UMass campuses and in partnership with UMass Memorial Health Care. The UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science places UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial among an elite consortium of 60 nationally prominent academic medical centers working to more efficiently move laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research, and to train a new generation of researchers.
UMass Medical School is one of the fastest-growing research institutions in the United States. Federal and private research grants and contracts at the Medical School rose from about $2 million in 1977 to more than $240 million in fiscal year 2013.
Academic Excellence
UMass Memorial Health Care and UMass Medical School provide academic opportunity and scholarship through high-quality, affordable educational programs for future physicians, advanced practice nurses, researchers and educators who will become our leaders in health care delivery and breakthrough scientific discovery. While our renowned UMass Memorial physician-faculty members train students in all medical specialties, as the Commonwealth’s only public academic health sciences center, UMass Medical School has a particular mission to educate primary care physicians and is consistently ranked in the top ten percent of the nation’s medical schools in primary care education by U.S. News and World Report.
Community Service
UMass Memorial Health Care and UMass Medical School physicians, staff and students commit countless hours to public service efforts across the Commonwealth and work together to make our region an even healthier place to live. The Medical School’s community programs in education and health harness the skills and expertise of the institution to address pressing local needs, such as yearly free flu vaccinations clinics for elderly and other vulnerable populations. The UMass Memorial community benefits mission focuses on a broad definition of health including physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease. Addressing root causes of disease is essential to improving the health of our communities and each of our health care system’s hospitals provide programming focused on these principles.