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The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare has honored Hebrew SeniorLife’s Rabbi Lior Nevo with an Honorable Mention for the prestigious 2026 Schwartz Compassionate Caregiver Award. The annual...

Hebrew SeniorLife has received funding to support the development of 78 homes for older adults in Roslindale. The funding is part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ $278 million announcement of...

Hebrew SeniorLife has begun construction of Spruce Commons, a new affordable community at 338 Canton Street in Stoughton. The project will bring 96 permanently affordable apartments for adults aged 62...

The Gerontological Society of America has named Lewis Lipsitz, MD, to its board of directors. The Gerontological Society of America is the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to...

Boston Magazine has published its Top Doctors 2026 list, which includes Hebrew SeniorLife’s Lewis Lipsitz, MD, and Dae Hyun Kim, MD, MPH, ScD. The list features 2,511 peer-nominated physicians across...

Elizabeth (Lisa) Samelson, PhD, has received the 2026 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Gordon Strewler Mentorship Award. The award is named after Gordon “Buck” Strewler, the former BIDMC vice...

Six chaplain students from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain have graduated from Hebrew SeniorLife’s Clinical Pastoral Education Program, which provides geriatric-focused spiritual care...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has named Hebrew SeniorLife among the 14 health care systems recognized for Excellence in System-wide Spread, demonstrating care delivery through the 4Ms (What...

The Jewish Theological Seminary has awarded Rabbi Beth Naditch, Hebrew SeniorLife’s director of clinical pastoral education, an honorary doctorate degree celebrating her 27 years in the rabbinate. The...

Five nurses working at Hebrew SeniorLife’s Boston-area campuses were nominated by patients, families, and colleagues for the 2026 “Salute to Nurses” special report published in Boston Globe Magazine...