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The staff at MelroseWakefield Hospital has been overworked and overburdened for a year now. They’re also very, very much appreciated.

Three North Shore nurses who have spent much of the last year treating COVID-19 patients will get a well-deserved, and coveted, respite this weekend.

A 103-year-old Wilmington woman received a dose of hope after patiently waiting her turn for the COVID vaccine.

Jen Medina won’t be on the job at MelroseWakefield Hospital this weekend. The registered nurse is headed to Florida to watch Tom Brady play in his 10th Super Bowl.

MelroseWakefield Hospital began administering the second round of COVID-19 vaccines earlier last week, 21 days after frontline workers received the first dose.

MelroseWakefield Hospital officially began administering the COVID-19 vaccine to frontline workers working directly with COVID patients last Wednesday afternoon.

Front-line workers were the first to get vaccinated for COVID-19 in a landmark day soaked with emotion and optimism at MelroseWakefield.

“I’m absolutely going to get it, yes!,” said Dr. Steven Sbardella, the chief medical officer at MelroseWakefield Hospital. “I hope to be one of the first ones to get it.”

Fedex dropped off a small box full of big hopes at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital Tuesday morning.“This is truly the answer we’ve been waiting for,” said Dr. Steven Sbardella, the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer.

Frontline workers at Tufts Medical Center are among the first people in Boston to get the coronavirus vaccine.

Caregivers at Tufts, as well as colleagues at two sister community hospitals, MelroseWakefield Hospital and Lowell General Hospital, were selected to be vaccinated Tuesday as hospitals start providing the first of the two shots required for the vaccine.

The MelroseWakefield Hospital surgery team recently performed their 1,000th robotic-assisted surgery.

Local residents receiving care for heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at MelroseWakefield Hospital are receiving the highest levels of care in the region according to the latest hospital rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.

Rheumatologist Isaac Kasper, MD, has joined Tufts Medical Center Community Care in Reading.

There is no time to waste when an individual might be experiencing heart attack symptoms. For the past 27 years, Melrosians and residents of surrounding communities have been coming to MelroseWakefield Hospital (MWH) to receive cardiac services close to home.

What seemed like a simple decision at the time may have ended up saving Melissa Shirtcliff’s life.

Jonathan D. Rothberg, MD, a primary care physician, has joined Tufts Medical Center Community Care’s internal medicine practice at 101 Main St., in Medford.

Face masks help slow the spread of COVID-19 and local and even national mask makers have donated thousands of the face coverings to MelroseWakefield Hospital.

The MelroseWakefield Hospital emergency room has seen a significant decrease in patients, which hospital officials attribute to people afraid of coming in contact with COVID-19. Frontline workers now are urging those who need routine work to come in as well as those who need medical attention.

MelroseWakefield Hospital is finding that people who need care are putting off visits due to coronavirus-related anxieties.