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For former professional runner Bob Bischoff, it’s all about the shoes. Specifically running shoes – and the co-owner of Rhode Runner in Providence, along with his wife, Colleen, has been focused since 2001 on helping Ocean State runners and walkers find their correct footing.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he doesn’t want his state to be “an appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.”
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Guest Column: Elena Marks
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8/27/12
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The pending sale of Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket to Steward Health Care of Boston took another strange twist on Monday with the leak of private correspondence between Dr. Ralph de la Torres, chairman and CEO of Steward, and R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin.
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By Richard Asinof |
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As workmen busily labored on the construction of Tockwotton Home’s new $52.3 million, five-story facility along the edge of Narragansett Bay, Kevin McKay, Tockwotton’s executive director, led a tour of the facility on Aug. 13 for U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline and news media.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Ninety-three teens, ages 16 to 19, graduated on Aug. 17 from the Lifespan Summer Youth Employment Program.
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By Richard Asinof |
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The R.I. Business Group on Health, a coalition of more than 70 employers with more than 50,000 employees, has inserted itself into the ongoing conflict and negotiations between Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, Landmark Medical Center and its pending buyer, Steward Health Care.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Lifespan’s annual report for 2011, published in late July, provides a thoughtful look backward at the previous year of Rhode Island’s largest private employer, with its workforce of more than 12,400.
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By Richard Asinof |
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PROVIDENCE – Performance Physical Therapy recently announced the opening of its newest of six clinics, in the Smithfield Medical Center in Smithfield. A seventh clinic is scheduled to open later this month in Barrington at 310 Maple Ave.
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8/20/12
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PROVIDENCE – Homefront Health Care, one of the largest providers of in-home health care in Rhode Island, recently invested $175,000 in upgrading its electronic medical-records system and its remote-patient monitoring.
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8/20/12
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – Amazing Charts introduced a cloud-based version of its electronic health-records software targeted at small, independent medical practices, the company announced Aug. 3.
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8/20/12
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