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Harrington HealthCare System Joins Be Aware for Safe Care Campaign

Harrington HealthCare System is participating in the 2012 Patient Safety Awareness Week campaign, Be Aware for Safe Care. Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 4-10, 2012, is an annual education and awareness campaign for health care safety led by the... continue »

Harrington Offers After-Hours Bilingual Financial Counselor

Harrington is expanding its access to health care by offering a Spanish speaking financial counselor two evenings per week. ... continue »

Harrington HealthCare Opens Travel Clinic

Harrington HealthCare System has opened the Harrington Travel Clinic, which provides high-quality travel consultation and travel medicine-related services. ... continue »

Harrington Receives $600,000 In Funding for EMR Implementation

Harrington HealthCare System has received $599,476 in federal Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive payments. Harrington, which is among the top 4.4 percent of all hospital systems in the country in electronic medical record adoption, is ... continue »

”Free To Dance” Program Offered for Middle School And High School Girls

Harrington Hospital, part of Harrington HealthCare System, is offering a free salsa dance program for high school and middle school girls in the region at its Southbridge campus on Friday afternoon and evenings. ... continue »

Harrington Is Top Performer in Patient Satisfaction

Harrington Hospital’s patient satisfaction scores in two key areas for the last quarter of 2011 were in the top 10 of Massachusetts hospitals as reported by Press Ganey, an independent healthcare survey company. ... continue »

Harrington Adopts Flu Mask Policy

Harrington HealthCare System will require all employees, physicians and volunteers who do not receive the flu vaccine to wear surgical masks when they are within six feet of patients or if they are in patient areas. ... continue »

Harrington Names New Chief Information Officer

Harrington HealthCare System has named Harold Lemieux as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO). Lemieux, currently CIO at Morton Hospital and Medical Center in Taunton, will join Harrington HealthCare System January 3. ... continue »

Harrington Outpatient Scores Soar

Harrington HealthCare Systems outpatient satisfaction scores are soaring, reaching 94.2 (out of a possible 100) for the most recent quarter. ... continue »

Harrington Offers Advanced Laboratory Imaging for Cervical Cancer Screening

Harrington has joined an exclusive list of New England hospitals to implement the ThinPrep Imaging System in-house for cervical cancer screening. ... continue »