UMASS Memorial Medical Center

UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care comprise the UMass Academic Health Sciences Center, which is rooted in Worcester, grounded in Massachusetts, embedded in the Commonwealth and connected throughout the globe.  Together, we are proud to serve as the largest employer in the city of Worcester, the region’s largest integrated health care delivery system, the state’s only public medical school, and an international hub for education, medicine and science.

Guided by a public mission focused on improving the health and well-being of the people in all the communities we serve-locally, regionally, statewide and beyond-we work every day to build healthier communities through innovative and culturally sensitive clinical care, service, teaching and biomedical research.

Our academic community, which is nationally recognized for primary care education and classified as a community-engaged institution by the Carnegie Foundation, include graduate education in medicine, nursing and the biomedical sciences, residency and fellowship training, inter-professional training in allied health professions, and continuing education for health care practitioners.

Our dynamic research enterprise, which has world class expertise in immunology, RNA biology, gene therapy, neurobiology and drug development, generates more than $240 million in funding annually and contributes significantly to biomedical science, human health and the state’s economy.

It is anchored by an outstanding faculty that includes a Nobel laureate, a Breakthrough Price recipient, a Lasker Prize winner, six Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators and five members of the national academies.

As the largest academic health care system in Central Massachusetts that is also the safety net system for this region, it is our responsibility to successfully steward this community asset by becoming the best academic health system in America based on measure of patient safety, quality, cost, patient satisfaction, innovation, education and caregiver engagement.  We are dedicated to making the clinical system the best place to give care and the best place to get care.

U.S. News & World Report just named Worcester 54 out of the best 100 metropolitan places to live in the U.S.   Citing our “vibrant and diverse community…green parks, quality hospitals and proximity to a dozen highly esteemed colleges and universities, there is a unique vitality to this metro area. Worcester provides an excellent cultural life, including amazing restaurants, concert and theatre venues and the Worcester Art Museum…”