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Small business takes the cautious route; wary response to economy
Over the past few weeks, U.S. policymakers, economists and financial publications seemed ready to declare an end to the country’s latest recession.
And they built...
Premiums for RIte Care test health care system
With some RIte Care recipients now forced to pay monthly premiums, it appears likely that thousands of individuals will be dropped next month from...
Budget to challenge medical industry’s skills
The budget proposed by President Bush Feb. 4th would cut federal payments to teaching hospitals and home-health agencies.
However, the Bush budget does not...
Enrollment at R.I. nursing schools continues to fall
Despite the health-care industry’s earnest efforts, enrollment in Rhode Island’s nursing schools in 2001 slipped for the sixth straight year.
The state’s five nursing schools...
Nurses unions to press legislature for work, staffing rules
Rhode Island nurses’ unions plan to lobby lawmakers this year for regulation
of temporary-staffing agencies, public disclosure of hospital staffing levels...
Miriam’s automated lab saves time, makes money
The new automated biochemistry laboratory at The Miriam Hospital is more than just gee-whiz technology that saves time and money – which, by...
Nursing homes to seek help with Medicaid
Rhode Island’s nursing home industry plans to press lawmakers this legislative
session to change the system the state uses to dole...
Soaring liability insurance reaches R.I.
A national trend that began two years ago of huge increases in liability insurance for nursing homes has finally reached the Rhode Island marketplace,...
Once a jewelry plant, now Biomed research
Staff Writer Women and Infants Hos-pital has transformed the former Excel Jewelry Manufacturing building in Providence’s jewelry district from a 20th century industrial relic...
Legislator pushing laws to combat medical errors
Rep. H. Norman Knickle, D-Warwick, plans to sponsor several bills this month aimed at preventing medical errors in the state’s hospitals, because the state...
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