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CNE required to maintain Memorial Hospital building as part of closure...
PROVIDENCE — Care New England’s plan to board up the former Memorial Hospital with 750 sheets of plywood and shut off power to the...
Public comment open for OHIC’s proposed health insurance network regulation
PROVIDENCE — In 2017, The Health Care Accessibility and Quality Assurance Act switched jurisdiction for health insurance network plans from the R.I. Department of...
OHIC: BCBSRI to contribute $5M to Behavioral Health Fund
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner, in the middle of a market conduct examination of the state’s four major insurers’...
Salko named president of Rhode Island Academy of Family Physicians
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Academy of Family Physicians recently chose Dr. Philip Salko to take the reins of the chapter as president during...
Five Questions With: Dr. Jeffrey D. Nadelson
Dr. Jeffrey D. Nadelson joined University Gastroenterology Aug. 1. He is fellowship-trained in gastroenterology, hepatology and transplant hepatology, and specializes in the treatment of inflammatory bowel...
Lokich joins women’s oncology program at Women & Infants Hospital
PROVIDENCE – Care New England Medical Group has announced the addition of gynecologic oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Lokich to the hospital system’s team, practicing at...
Patterson presented with Charles ‘Bud’ Kahn, M.D., Lifetime Leadership Award
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Robert Patterson, a vascular surgeon affiliated with The Miriam Hospital and a clinical professor of surgery at the Warren Alpert Medical...
South County Health names Rameaka medical affairs VP, chief medical officer
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Lisa Rameaka, South County Health’s chief of OB-GYN, was recently named vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer at...
Advocates to distribute street drug tests for fentanyl throughout R.I. Friday
PROVIDENCE — Public health advocates, including representatives of Preventing Overdose and Naloxone Intervention at The Miriam Hospital, will distribute street drug test strips for...
Report: R.I. teen immunization rates drop, remain among highest in nation
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s immunization rates for teenagers remain among the highest in the nation, the R.I. Department of Health and the Centers for...



















