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Fitcorp is conveniently located inside the MetroWest Wellness Center and is a full-service health club that allows members the opportunity to exceed their fitness goals through its easy accessibility and top-of-the-line facilities. With over 12,000 square feet in the Wellness Center, Fitcorp offers a comfortable, clean, and non-intimidating environment. Our friendly staff, highly skilled Personal Trainers, and motivating group fitness instructors are here to provide you with the best service possible to help you achieve your fitness goals. Come see what Metrowest’s best fitness center can do for you!
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Hospitalized for severe depression, Gayle F. looked forward to spending time with her "therapists," who coaxed her back to health with non-judgmental support, frisky good humor and occasional wet kisses.
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Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) has been established as an effective therapy and alternative to hysterectomy/myomectomy in women with symptomatic uterine fibroids. Fibroids are the most common tumor affective the female reproductive organs, and although the majority of fibroids are benign, they may cause symptoms that severely affect a woman’s quality of life.
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Hopkinton ambulances are now equipped with modems to transmit EKG data to MetroWest Medical Center so doctors can be ready for patients suffering certain heart problems when they reach the hospital. According to Deputy Fire Chief Steve Slaman, the LifeNet system is meant to cut down on the time it takes to get patients in need of emergency angioplasty from their homes to specialized treatment in Framingham. “They call it door-to-balloon time and they want to get it under 90 minutes,” Slaman said. With the new technology in the ambulances, not only can doctors at the MetroWest Cardiac Catheterization Lab see the patient’s heart readings, but the data also can be sent via computer to a doctor’s cellphone.
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The Heart Center of MetroWest (HCMW), a 12-cardiologist specialty practice group, and Tufts Medical Center have entered into a new clinical partnership to enhance cardiovascular services for patients from the MetroWest region. HCMW physicians will join Tufts Medical Center’s CardioVascular Center and work with Tufts MC’s physicians and surgeons to provide comprehensive services, including pre and post cardiac surgery care, at MetroWest Medical Center. The relationship builds on the robust adult and pediatric partnerships Tufts Medical Center has developed with MetroWest Medical Center and its physicians over the previous two years.
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Senator Richard Moore, senate chair of the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, was recently presented with the “Legislator of the Year Award” from the Massachusetts Podiatric Medical Society (MPMS). Dr. Donald Adams, chief of podiatry at MetroWest Medical Center, pictured on the left, made the presentation.
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Digital Mammography Screenings will be available at the MetroWest Professional Medical Center at Milford starting Tuesday, July 5th! A screening mammogram can be booked if it has been at least 1 year and a day since your last mammogram, you are not experiencing any problems, and you do not have implants.
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MetroWest Medical Center has secured long-sought membership in a Boston research institute studying new treatments, which will give patients expanded access to potentially life-saving clinical trials for drugs and medical devices.
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MetroWest Medical Center says it will soon become the first hospital in the state to fully implement a new patient monitoring system that operates without wires or sensors placed on the body.
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MetroWest Medical Center has been honored with a 2011 “Partner for Change, with Distinction” Award from Practice Greenhealth, a national membership organization for health care facilities committed to environmentally responsible operations.
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