Marion Davis
Bill would have hospitals report infection data
How do you judge a hospital’s quality: By how caring the nurses are? By the doctors’ credentials? By the technologies it offers?
How about by...
Noted training system, Six Sigma, offered at Bryant
The figures are daunting: Motorola credits it for $17 billion in savings since 1986. General Electric estimates it saved $10 billion in the first...
Roger Williams bets on specialty care, technology
Robert A. Urciuoli
Position: President and CEO, Roger Williams Medical
Center
Background: A 31-year veteran at Roger Williams, which first hired him as budget director, Urciuoli...
Study calls for big changes in behavioral health
Could Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island transform the state’s mental-health landscape by changing how it pays providers – not just by...
Making way for child-care centers
Statewide partnership offers funds, expertise to renovate facilities
An old nursing home. An empty warehouse. Inner-city apartments.
In the last three years, LISC Rhode Island has...
Commercial insurance rates soften
Commercial property and casualty insurance rates have stabilized and even dropped in the last quarter of 2004, with more than 80 percent of premiums...
DBR approves hospital experience rating change
The state Department of Business Regulation has approved a change in a major malpractice insurer’s experience rating system that will immediately boost three hospitals’...
Blue Cross gets A- rating, best of insurers in R.I.
The nation’s health insurers are getting financially stronger, with 50 percent of HMOs and related companies rated A (excellent) or B (good) in a...
Neighborhood Health Plan names Balasco as interim CEO
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island has named Ernest A. Balasco, chair of its board and executive director of Wood River Health Services, as...
Supreme Court upholds United contract
The state Supreme Court has upheld the state’s award of its health insurance contract to UnitedHealthcare of New England, reversing a Superior Court judge’s...
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