This week's news and issues for the region's health care industry

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Local mental health organizations struggle with spiking suicide rates

As mental health providers in Central Massachusetts have expanded services to meet a growing need, they bump up against a capacity strained by funding and staffing limits.

Hologic expands HIV, hepatitis testing access

Marlborough medical imaging device firm Hologic launched an initiative Wednesday to expand affordable access to molecular testing for HIV, heptatits B and C, and HPV.

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Fallon opens new elder care facility in Webster

A 14,000-square-foot elder care facility will open Monday in Webster as Fallon Health's newest such center.

Allurion completes enrollment of weight loss device study

A Natick weight loss device company has begun a clinical trial in the U.S. with the hopes of soon gaining U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.

Woburn biotech to spend $20M to occupy vacant Framingham building

A Woburn-based biotech developing new cancer treatments is planning to spend $20 million to renovate 63,000-square-feet of space in a vacant Framingham building.

For an MRI, average Worcester County expense is lowest in Mass.

In Worcester County, at least, patients can know that health care costs could be far worse not too far away — when it comes to an MRI, anyway.

Three healthcare leaders to leave their positions

Three women, all high-profile healthcare leaders in Central Massachusetts, will step down from their positions over the next several months, their respective organizations announced in July.

Pulse Check: High school students and drugs

Percentage of U.S. high school students who used illicit drugs

2007 22.6
2009 22.0
2011 22.5
2013 17.3
2015 15.4
2017 14.0
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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People on the Move

Erica Soucy and Jenna Olson have been promoted from behavioral instructors to head teachers at the Center for Applied Behavioral Instruction in Worcester. Soucy, of Worcester, who is pursuing a master’s degree in special education at Fitchburg State University, has been with CABI for a year and a half. Olson, of Spencer, who is pursuing a master’s degree in special education at Bay Path University in Sturbridge, joined CABI two years ago.

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