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Feds postpone innovation-grants deadline
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s efforts to put together its plans for a State Innovation Model grant proposal are still moving ahead at full steam...
CVS details drug-abuse efforts
WOONSOCKET – In a “perspective” piece published online in the Aug. 21 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Abusive Prescribing of...
Blood Center ends cord blood program
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Blood Center announced that it would be closing down its four-year-old cord blood program on Sept. 15, according to...
Blackstone Valley achieves<br> recognition in analytics
PAWTUCKET – A national health IT organization has recognized Blackstone Valley Community Health Care for achieving Stage 6 in its use of analytics in...
Hittner jumps back into reform fray
Dr. Kathleen C. Hittner was retired, and she and her husband were building a retirement home in Hilton Head, S.C., when Gov. Lincoln D....
Better way to shop for insurance?
Rhode Island took the first step in its goal to make health-insurance costs and services more transparent with the Aug. 20 release of data...
Care New England, Memorial Hospital deal closing on Sept. 3
PAWTUCKET – Care New England and Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island will mark their new partnership agreement with a signing ceremony on Tuesday afternoon,...
Five Questions With: Lauren Capizzo
Patient-centered medical homes are rapidly becoming the sine qua non of health care delivery – and health care reform implementation – in Rhode Island,...
Lead exposure correlated with suspensions
PROVIDENCE – A new study published online Aug. 21 in the journal Environmental Research has found that children in the Milwaukee public schools with...
Women & Infants offers virtually scarless gynecological surgery
PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital became the first hospital in the region to offer women virtually scarless gynecologic surgery with the use of...
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