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Part of the organization’s investment in care.

It’s the next step in a strategic plan by the $95 million Chautauqua County organization designed to further reduce debt and refocus on its core mission of housing and health care services for older adults.

The only branches to close in the month of August came from one Boston-based bank: Santander Bank. Meanwhile, JPMorgan Chase is continuing an aggressive opening strategy.

A drug made by a Needham-based biotech company called Stealth BioTherapeutics Inc. is a last-ditch source of hope for many patients. But it faces an uncertain future — as does its maker. For patient advocates, a back-and-forth between the FDA and a Needham biotech illustrates a major gap for patients with ultra-rare diseases.

Smart Financial Credit Union has shifted its strategy in Houston in recent years, including how it approaches adding new branches and the credit union's main driver of growth.

The acquired company makes software that helps with income planning, tax strategies, estate protection and IRA decisions.

Massachusetts' life sciences industry grew by more than 7,000 jobs last year, outpacing competitor states even as the so-called “Covid boom” began to wane. That's according to the latest “Industry Snapshot” report put out by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, the trade group better known as MassBio, which examines trends in workforce, real estate, funding and policy on an annual basis. As of 2022, Massachusetts had a total of 113,994 employees, up from 106,679 in 2021. Of those, 64,195 were R&D employees — an 8.5% increase from 2021 — and 10,493 were biomanufacturing employees, up 6.3% from the year prior, although biomanufacturing job growth over the long term has been much slower than it has been for R&D positions. The rate of growth for R&D jobs was second only to North Carolina. For biomanufacturing jobs, only Florida bested Massachusetts. The state's life sciences workforce is projected to keep growing like this, despite ongoing layoffs that have roiled the in..

According to officials with the health plan, AlohaCare has more than 9,000 members on Maui.

More than 4 million federal student loan borrowers are enrolled in the Biden administration’s new repayment program, according to figures released Tuesday by the Department of Education.

With the pause of more than three years on federal student loan repayments coming to an end in October, and the Supreme Court’s summer decision to strike down the White House’s one-time debt relief program, the Department of Education has rolled out several repayment and loan forgiveness programs. One of those…

A medical device firm with ties to Duke University has completed its acquisition of a company that had been faltering.