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URI College of Nursing names new associate dean of graduate programs

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Katherine Hutchinson will join the University of Rhode Island’s College of Nursing as associate dean of graduate programs and research this...
FIRST STEP: Rhode Island Business Group on Health Executive Director Al Charbonneau says a federal rule requiring hospitals to post pricing data online is the first of many steps to price transparency. Next to Charbonneau is Hospital Association of Rhode Island President Teresa Paiva Weed.
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New CMS rule requires hospitals to post pricing data online

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires hospitals’ pricing data to be posted to their websites, billed as the first step toward a...

St. Luke’s Brain & Spine Surgery program adopts new image-guided technology

NEW BEDFORD – The Brain & Spine Surgery program at St. Luke’s Hospital is now using 7D Surgical’s Machine-vision Image Guided Surgery technology, which...

Five Questions With: Tom Boucher

Tom Boucher recently began as chief of marketing and development at PACE Organization of Rhode Island. The health plan, which serves older adults interested...

CVS offers ‘Know Your Numbers’ heart-health screenings in February

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. is offering “Know Your Numbers” heart-health screenings at no cost at the company’s retail MinuteClinics every Thursday in February,...

Kent Hospital Stroke Center earns Joint Commission certification

WARWICK – The Advanced Primary Stroke Center at Kent Hospital has earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the American Heart Association/American...

Hayes joins Delta Dental of Rhode Island board of directors

PROVIDENCE – Peter Hayes, founder and partner of Hayes & Sherry Real Estate Services in Providence, has joined the board of directors at Delta...

House Committee on Oversight: MTM, EOHHS have until Feb. 28 to...

PROVIDENCE — Medical Transportation Management Inc., is one month and hundreds of complaints into their three-and-a-half-year, $115 million contract with the Executive Office of...
THE OPIOID SPOON PROJECT visited Rhodes Technologies, Inc. Thursday, protesting its involvement in opioid manufacturing and marketing, along with that of its parent company, Purdue Pharma L.P. / COURTESY THE OPIOID SPOON PROJECT

Opioid Spoon Project visits Coventry Purdue Pharma subsidiary

COVENTRY — The R.I. Attorney General’s Office has a civil suit against Purdue Pharma L.P. for alleged fraudulent marketing of opioids in Rhode Island,...
OHIC's posted timeline showing the steps moving toward the state's goal capping health care spending increases at 3.2 percent per year. /COURTESY OFFICE OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

Raimondo executive order caps annual medical cost increase at 3.2%

PROVIDENCE — Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and the Office of Health Insurance Commissioner pledged to hold health care spending per capita increases for consumers,...
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