Local Healthcare System Wellforce Now Known As Tufts Medicine

BOSTON, MA — Wellforce is changing its name to Tufts Medicine in a change that further integrates the healthcare network with Tufts University.

The change will be reflected throughout the entire network, which includes MelroseWakefield Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, Lowell General Hospital, Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford, Home Health Foundation and more than 2,000 physicians. and a large integrated physician network.

Tufts Medicine will continue its relationship wit Tufts University, the entities having appointed Dr. Helen Boucher interim dean of Tufts University School of Medicine and chief academic officer of Tufts Medicine.

"Consumers have told us that they want more than the healthcare industry is currently delivering," Tufts Medicine CEO and President Michael Dandorph said in a releae. "They want an affordable, high-quality experience that anticipates and seamlessly orchestrates all their care needs no matter who or where they are. Our teams have embraced this challenge to reimagine healthcare and do it as one high quality, clinically integrated and digitally connected health system"