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New England Cord Blood Bank starts grants
BOSTON – New England Cord Blood Bank Inc. (NECBB), a global cord blood processing and storage facility, last week launched a grant initiative for...
Care New England uses Web 2.0 technology
PROVIDENCE – Aiming to better meet the needs of patients, physicians and local residents who use or have an interest in its services, the...
Health care license verification to go paperless
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health last week said that effective Jan. 1, the state’s e-licensing process will go completely paperless, with no...
Five Questions With: Virginia Burke
For the first time in history, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week released quality ratings for the 15,800 nursing homes...
FTC approves Lifespan-CNE merger – again
PROVIDENCE – For the second time, the Federal Trade Commission has given a green light to the proposed merger between Lifespan and Care New...
More oversight urged for Medicare Advantage plans
The studies are of interest to anyone concerned about health care and public spending. But for Rhode Island, where Medicare Advantage plans cover a...
Miriam launches patient e-mail service
PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital has launched a service that allows friends and relatives of patients to send them personal greetings by e-mail, which...
HIV project wins Lifespan research award
PROVIDENCE – An emergency physician who has worked on improving HIV screening, exposure management, post-exposure prophylaxis and HIV-related screenings in the ER was recently...
R.I. is No. 2 for emergency medicine
PROVIDENCE – A new report card on emergency medicine ranks Rhode Island second in the nation, tied with the District of Columbia for a...
Medicare Advantage made extra profit<br> in 2006, GAO finds
WASHINGTON – Insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans made $1.3 billion more in profits in 2006 than their own bids projected, a new report from...
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