Thursday, March 28, 2024

TOPICS

Health Services

HOME AWAY FROM HOME: Residents participate in activities at West View Health Care Center, which received five stars in CMS rankings. /

New nursing home ratings criticized as incomplete

Bunny Placco searched “far and wide” before picking a nursing home for her mother, Barbara Holmes, when she became too frail to live with...
 /

Real ‘change’ is necessary in primary care

For real “change” to be more than a political sound bite, the new administration will need vision and courage to provide a better health...
KENNETH H. BELCHER, president and CEO of Roger Williams Medical Center, and Dr. N. Joseph Espat, interim director of the hospital’s cancer center, pose inside the facility. /

$1.9M center consolidates <br>Roger Williams’ cancer services

Roger Williams Medical Center has completed a $1.9 million, 7,000-square-foot building addition that allows it to consolidate all its cancer services under a single...
BRIARCLIFFE MANOR’S new 20,000-square-foot Briarcliffe Gardens will be one floor, a design intended to accommodate its memory-loss patients. /

Developers see need for more Alzheimer&rsquo;s units

When Briarcliffe Manor owner Akshay K. Talwar decided to build a new Alzheimer’s-care facility on his 20-acre Johnston assisted living campus, he decided to...

NIH awards $10.7M to research center at Women & Infants

PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island has been awarded a five-year, $10.7 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant from the...

Shape Up RI seeks teams for 4th annual campaign

PROVIDENCE – Registration has begun for the fourth annual Shape Up RI, the statewide exercise and weight-loss challenge that to date has inspired nearly...

R.I. Hospital operation first of its kind in U.S.

PROVIDENCE – A doctor at Rhode Island Hospital has performed the nation’s first kidney tumor ablation using a NanoKnife, a new image-guided device that...

Survey finds health reform among top public priorities

WASHINGTON – A new survey released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health has found health care reform is...

House approves SCHIP renewal, expansion

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives last week approved a bill that will renew the State Children’s Health Insurance Program – an...

R.I. Hospital ultrasound accreditation renewed

The department of diagnostic imaging at Rhode Island Hospital has been reaccredited for three years as an ultrasound provider by the American College of...
- Featured Event -

Latest News