A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from singing over silents to Britanik comedy
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble performs its “Photoplay,” there’s art such as “Poems of Electronic Air,” academic talks on “The Rhetoric of Black Populism: From Malcolm X to the ‘Manosphere’” and the comedy duo Britanik takes the stage.
Mount Auburn Hospital appoints Edwin Huang permanent president after serving interim period
Edwin Huang has been named president of the hospital after serving as interim president since Chad Wable left the post in January after a year.
Weakened Health Alliance looks forward fiscally to more stays, a possible Birth Center reopening
After a financially disastrous year that ended with layoffs and an estimated $50.3 million loss from health care operations, the Cambridge Health Alliance expects improved results in the next 12 months but still anticipates losing money.
At a Pink Pages fundraiser against breast cancer, famed authors’ attention drifts to politics as well
Nearly $290,000 was donated to the Hoffman Breast Center through the year’s Pink Pages event with authors including Alice Hoffman and Anne Leary.
For the ’23 Pink Pages fundraiser, Alice Hoffman unites Diamant, Picoult and more famed authors
The novelist and Anita Diamant, Lisa Genova, Ann Leary, Elinor Lipman, Jodi Picoult, Laura Zigman and Hank Phillippi Ryan raise money Monday for The Hoffman Breast Center at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital.
‘Laura’s Law’ is adopted to help patients in crisis, though emergency room behind its need is gone
Almost seven years after 34-year-old Laura Levis couldn’t find the entrance to the former Somerville Hospital emergency room and later died, the state health department has adopted emergency department sign and communication requirements for hospitals throughout the state.
Unit treating autism and ADHD may give up beds for more adolescent psychiatric treatment needs
Cambridge Health Alliance wants to switch half the beds in a new unit for children and teens with neurological and developmental disorders to space for adolescents with more common psychiatric illnesses, because most of the special beds are empty.
Mount Auburn Hospital’s first baby of 2023
West Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Hospital has shared an image of the first baby born there in the new year, arriving at 12:50 a.m. Sunday.
Gift cards at a Dec. 15 clinic could be the answer for city’s ‘disturbingly low’ Covid booster rates
For the first time, the city will offer a financial incentive for getting a Covid-19 shot, a suggestion of city councillors who are concerned by stubbornly low booster rates.
‘Tridemic’ of flu, Covid, RSV fills hospital beds, leaving none left in Cambridge for its children
Cambridge’s two hospitals don’t offer any medical beds for children, and doctors face an “extraordinary problem” finding hospital care for kids amid spiking respiratory infections and staff shortages statewide, a top city public health official said Monday.
