Drug take-back day scheduled for April 28
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is supporting an effort to help clear homes of potentially dangerous, expired, unused and...
Steward seeks more changes in legislation
PROVIDENCE – Despite winning approval by the Rhode Island Senate for legislative changes in the Hospital Conversions Act that would allow it to purchase...
Providence Center, New Leaf join forces
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Center, Rhode Island’s largest behavioral health and recovery provider, has joined forces A New Leaf, a Providence florist with the...
Butler breaks ground on new Patient Care Center
PROVIDENCE – Butler Hospital hosted a ceremony to commence the building of its new $17 million Patient Care Center on Tuesday.
The new three-story, 49,000-square-foot...
Kent Hospital puts spotlight on drug overdoses, deaths
WARWICK – A spike in drug overdoses being treated at Kent Hospital –seven out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the past eight weeks have resulted in...
R.I. Hospital performs nonsurgical valve replacement
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island hospital completed its first aortic valve replacement using a catheter through a less-invasive procedure developed for patients with severe aortic...
United rolls out online incentive program
WARWICK – A new online incentive program to help pregnant women with prenatal and baby care, reinforcing healthy behaviors, has been rolled out by...
Hospital association joins 2013 budget fray
CRANSTON – The Hospital Association of Rhode Island says the state’s proposed budget for 2013 includes “more than $18 million in reduced payments for...
Newborn saved at Kent’s hyperbaric care center
WARWICK – An 11-day-old baby and his mother were successfully treated for carbon-monoxide poisoning at Kent Hospital’s Hyperbaric Medicine Center in January, hospital officials...
Stephanie Chafee named to nursing hall of fame
PROVIDENCE – At its third annual Nightingale Gala held on April 13, the Rhode Island State Nurses Association and the Rhode Island Institute for...
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