Six startups given R.I. innovation credit
In 2005, Rajiv Kumar founded a company to market a team-based, employee-wellness program, based on a model and software platform he pioneered with his...
Doctors’ offices making the mind-body connection
Dr. Ellen Hight knows how much healthier many of her patients could be if only they changed their behavior: if they quit smoking, ate...
R.I. Hospital fined in 3rd wrong-site surgery this year
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health said last week that it has issued a reprimand to Rhode Island Hospital and fined the facility...
R.I. Hospital receives research grant
A Rhode Island Hospital doctor and a senior investigator, who ordinarily wouldn’t have the chance to work together, think they have found a way...
W&I project faces $13M overrun
Women & Infants Hospital’s largest construction project in two decades, a five-story addition that is to include a new neonatal intensive-care unit and more...
Art curative in health care setting
A group of mothers battling postpartum depression worked through a range of painful, complicated emotions by expressing them in a mural that was recently...
Mass. reform may have large impact on Southcoast
Community hospitals in the Fall River and New Bedford areas are worried that Massachusetts’ health care reform could ultimately prove costly to them.
And that,...
Health council asks rehab hospital for more details
The 40-bed specialty hospital proposed for the second floor of the Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island in North Smithfield would be the first Long...
Rhode Island among most depressed, least suicidal states
Rhode Island is one of the most emotionally depressed yet least suicidal states, according to a report released last week that links depression and...
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