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Visiting Nurse Services providing GoSafe medical alert service

PORTSMOUTH – Visiting Nurse Services of Newport and Bristol Counties is now a certified Philips Lifeline GoSafe provider. GoSafe, a leading mobile medical alert...
A Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island doula program has completed complimentary in-home visits for more than 225 new mothers who gave birth at Women & Infants Hospital .

BCBSRI initiative provides free in-home doula visit to new mothers

PROVIDENCE – A new doula program has completed complimentary in-home visits for more than 225 new mothers. The program, which launched exclusively for Blue...

Five Questions With: E. Paul Larrat

E. Paul Larrat, a respected professor, epidemiologist, and health policy and health economics analyst, has been named dean of the University of Rhode Island’s...

Kent Rehabilitation Center receives three-year accreditation for excellence

WARWICK – The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International has accredited the Rehabilitation Center at Kent Hospital for three years for its inpatient...

Men’s Cancer Wellness Group to meet at Miriam

PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital Men’s Cancer Wellness Group will meet tonight from 6-7:30 p.m. at the hospital’s Comprehensive Care Center in the Fain...

Southcoast Health’s 2014 investment in community health: $22M

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – Working with hundreds of community partners across the region, Southcoast Health invested $22 million in community benefits in its fiscal...
HELP FOR PAIN: Dr. Alexios Carayannopoulos, director of the new Comprehensive Spine Center at Rhode Island Hospital,  displays diagnostic equipment at the Lifespan facility. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Spine center offers continuum of care

More than merely a "pain in the neck," back pain, which costs Americans $50 billion annually, will affect 80 percent of us at some...
Cedric J. Priebe, M.D., brings a wealth of IT experience to his new position at Lifespan as senior vice president and CIO.

Five Questions With: Dr. Cedric J. Priebe

Dr. Cedric J. Priebe joined Lifespan as senior vice president and chief information officer after serving as CIO for Partners HealthCare – Massachusetts’ largest...
WORDS MATTER: Rhode Island Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg speaks to a Johnson & Wales University class on fundraising and philanthropy, potentially inspiring the next generation of donors and advocates. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Taking rhetoric to action

Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, the largest and most comprehensive funder of nonprofits in Rhode Island, is no...

Delta flies high investing in wellness

Evaluating data and tracking outcomes are second nature for airlines, especially in the service of employee health. From CEO Richard Anderson on down, Delta...
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