Power plant regulations could reduce health costs
WASHINGTON – New coal-burning power plant regulations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, known as the Cross State Air Pollution Rule, to take effect...
Study: Medicaid improves overall health
WASHINGTON – A new study led by economists at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that people with Medicaid were 70 percent...
Hospitals open joint cardiovascular center
PAWTUCKET – The people of the Blackstone Valley now have a choice for cardiac care, one that is model for how to deliver efficient...
Kent Hospital, union reach 3-year pact
WARWICK – Kent Hospital and the Local 5008 of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5008 have reached a new, three-year contract. Union...
Will corps of R.I. health reporters shrink?
PROVIDENCE – Unconfirmed reports about plans by WJAR-TV Channel 10 to have Barbara Morse Silva join Frank Coletta as co-anchor as part of the...
Memorial Hospital wins Hospital Cup at Heart Walk
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island recently garnered the Hospital Cup at the Southern New England Heart Walk for being the top fundraising hospital in...
Kent breast-health center adds oncologist
WARWICK – Dr. Bachir J. Sakr has joined The Breast Health Center at Kent Hospital.
Dr. Sakr also serves as an attending medical oncologist...
W&I research links with networks renewed
PROVIDENCE – The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has renewed the membership of Women & Infants Hospital in...
Stepping Up at Epoch mentors job seekers
PROVIDENCE – In an effort to place interested workers in jobs in the health care field, EPOCH Senior Living on Blackstone Boulevard has teamed...
Imaging company gets ACR accreditation
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Medical Imaging was awarded a gold-seal, three-year term of accreditation in breast magnetic-resonance imaging by the American College of Radiology....
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