IN JANUARY 2024, Gov. Maura Healey’s administration launched the Advancing Health Equity in Massachusetts initiative to address health disparities across the Commonwealth.
Ten geographic areas encompassing 30 communities were targeted after being found to have the greatest health inequities in relation to the two leading causes of premature death in Massachusetts. Dorchester and Ayer were among those communities.
Six months later, the administration said it could not stop their local hospitals from closing…