In The News - Spectrum Health Systems, Inc.

Details: Written by Sabre Imagery; Category: In The News; Published: 10 August 2016; Hits: 6486

Law enforcement, for many years, has had the ability to detain intoxicated individuals if police determined that they represented a danger to themselves or others. Inexplicably, those rules had not been updated to include drug users, even as the ongoing opioid epidemic began to swell throughout the Commonwealth, including in Worcester County where between 2014 and last year the increase in overdose deaths matched or was slightly worse percentage-wise than the state as a whole.

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Details: Written by Sabre Imagery; Category: In The News; Published: 04 August 2016; Hits: 6449

The Boston Globe
Date: 8/3/16

More than ever, the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is claiming lives in Massachusetts, fueling an overdose death toll that continues to rise, according to data released Wednesday by the state Department of Public Health.

Details: Written by Sabre Imagery; Category: In The News; Published: 27 April 2016; Hits: 5908

Worcester Magazine
Date: 4/26/16

Kurt Isaacson has been named the new president and CEO of Spectrum Health Systems.

Details: Written by Sabre Imagery; Category: In The News; Published: 27 April 2016; Hits: 6620

Worcester Business Journal Online
Date: 4/26/16

Worcester's Spectrum Health Systems has named Kurt Isaacson as the organization's new president and CEO, replacing Charles “Chuck” Faris as he steps into retirement.

Details: Written by Sabre Imagery; Category: In The News; Published: 18 February 2016; Hits: 5708

Worcester Magazine
Date: 2/17/16

Chuck Faris joined Spectrum Health Systems as a counselor in 1971, not long after the start of a new decade. Now, 45 years later, and a little more than halfway through the second decade of a new century, he is calling an end to a career that saw him rise all the way to the top.