Rob Borkowski
United Way hosts Medicare-enrollment help sessions
PROVIDENCE – Medicare open enrollment for 2018 coverage runs from Nov. 1 through Dec. 7 for individuals to choose and make changes to health...
State plans $2.5M move of Eleanor Slater patients to Benton Center
CRANSTON — The Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals will relocate Eleanor Slater Hospital’s psychiatric patients to the Roosevelt Benton Center to...
OHIC: Federal restoration of CSRs won’t guarantee rate reductions
PROVIDENCE —If a bipartisan, congressional restoration of Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies succeeds, a second revision of HealthSource RI’s silver-level health plan rates would require a...
Integra Community Care reports $8.3 million saved with accountable care approach
PROVIDENCE — The Integra Community Care Network reported an $8.3 million savings in 2016 under the Medicare Shared Savings Program with a simultaneous 95...
Kent Hospital, UNAP agree on equal terms for newly unionized workers,...
WARWICK - United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5008 and Kent Hospital reached a tentative agreement Sunday night, Oct. 22, on a first contract for...
Rosenberg pleads guilty to fraud, kickback conspiracy in Subsys prescription scam
PROVIDENCE - Jerrold N. Rosenberg, 62, of North Providence, indicted in U.S. District Court in February on health care fraud and conspiring to solicit and...
Southcoast Health reports 189 employee buyouts, $29M loss
FALL RIVER — Southcoast Health System Inc. reported that 189 employees have accepted voluntary early buyouts offered over the summer as the medical group...
Gov.: Lifespan, CharterCare vacancies can absorb Memorial staff
PROVIDENCE — Should Care New England’s filing to close Pawtucket’s Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island be approved by the R.I. Department of Health, there...
Estner Injury Center expands into Warwick with Post Road location
WARWICK – Chiropractor Dr. Stephen Estner, founder of Estner Injury Center, wasn’t planning to expand beyond his Cranston, Pawtucket and Providence offices, but his...
Five Questions With: Dr. Rachel Beard
Dr. Rachel Beard joined the Division of Surgical Oncology at University Surgical Associates Oct. 2, where she will provide state-of-the-art treatment for patients with...


















