Marion Davis
Five Questions With: Marie Ghazal and Lori J. Hurley
For more than three decades, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) has helped ensure that pregnant women, nursing mothers...
Westerly Hospital offers free educational programs
The Westerly Hospital last week launched its Healthy For Life community education series, free programs for lay audiences covering everything from tips on sustaining...
‘Access for All Abilities’ grants available
The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities at Rhode Island College is accepting applications for grants of up to $2,500 to support social, recreational,...
Flu Day participants receive awards
The R.I. Department of Health last week presented awards to 11 health care providers that participated in the state’s first Flu Vaccination Day in...
Quality Improvement Fair to be held Wednesday
Quality Partners of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Health Care Association are hosting a daylong Quality Improvement Fair this Wednesday at Rhodes on...
Whitehouse seeks to close ‘doughnut hole’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and two colleagues have introduced legislation to shrink the Medicare prescription drug “doughnut hole,” the gap...
New nursing home ratings criticized as incomplete
Bunny Placco searched “far and wide” before picking a nursing home for her mother, Barbara Holmes, when she became too frail to live with...
$1.9M center consolidates <br>Roger Williams’ cancer services
Roger Williams Medical Center has completed a $1.9 million, 7,000-square-foot building addition that allows it to consolidate all its cancer services under a single...
Survey finds health reform among top public priorities
WASHINGTON – A new survey released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health has found health care reform is...
House approves SCHIP renewal, expansion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved a bill that will renew the State Children’s Health Insurance Program – an...
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