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Butler to set up information kiosks
PROVIDENCE – Butler Hospital has received a $50,000 grant from the Rhode Island Foundation that will allow it to set up touch-screen computer kiosks...
Southcoast to open satellite oncology site
FALL RIVER – Southcoast Hospitals Group said last week that it will open a satellite oncology location at its Charlton Memorial Hospital site in...
Survey finds frustration among primary-care doctors
BOSTON – A survey released last week by The Physicians’ Foundation has found what the group called “widespread frustration and concern” among primary-care physicians...
Hospitals go tobacco free
CRANSTON – Using the annual Great American Smokeout, a national tobacco-awareness day, as a catalyst, hospitals throughout the state last Thursday implemented policies that...
CMS picks regional administrative contractor
BOSTON – The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week announced it has chosen the National Heritage Insurance Corporation (NHIC) to process...
Five Questions With: Gloria Rose
The Wal-Mart Foundation last week presented a $25,000 grant to the Chad Brown Health Center in Providence, in collaboration with the Rhode Island Quality...
Health program for uninsured is off to slow start
Do you have workers who don’t qualify for your company health plan, but for whom you’d like to provide affordable health care? Do you...
Tufts Health Plan net income down sharply
WATERTOWN, Mass. – Tufts Health Plan’s net income for the first nine months of this year has been half what it was for the...
Miriam cardiologist named top women’s doctor
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Barbara Roberts, a cardiologist at The Miriam Hospital and a nationally recognized expert on women’s heart health, was recently named one...
March of Dimes gives R.I. a ‘D’<br> for its pre-term birth...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – In the first of what it says will be an annual “Premature Birth Report Card,” the March of Dimes has...
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