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Thundermist Health Center earns AMA Joy in Medicine recognition

PROVIDENCE – Thundermist Health Center has earned distinction as one of the American Medical Association’s 2025 Joy in Medicine organizations, achieving the Bronze level...
HOUSE CALL: Dr. Tyler Weisberger, left, who works for Kent County Memorial Hospital’s Hospital at Home program, examines Doris Witt at her Warwick home. Witt was admitted to Kent in early March after experiencing symptoms from her congestive heart failure. The Hospital at Home program allowed her to be discharged early but still receive hospital-level care. 
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Hospitals see benefits to bringing care home

When 90-year-old Doris Witt was taken to the hospital a few weeks ago because she was having trouble breathing, the elderly Warwick resident wasn’t...

Are nurse practitioners taking on too much responsibility in Rhode Island’s...

Over a five-year period the number of nurse practitioners in Rhode Island grew by 34%, to 1,475 in 2024. That growth comes as doctors willing...
EASING THE BURDEN: Erica Ogni, right, an adult-gerontology nurse practitioner, gives a checkup to patient Lexi Palumbo at South County Health in East Greenwich. As the number of local doctors declines, nurse practitioners are increasingly seeing more patients.
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Nurse practitioners fill gap in R.I. primary care

The difficulty too many Rhode Islanders have finding new doctors would be even more of a crisis if not for the growth in nurse...
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A legacy of inequality in medical education

Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have advanced their own...
THE PRESCRIPTION? Kerry LaPlante, dean of the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy, says pharmacists are underutilized in the health care system and should be allowed to play a bigger part. 
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R.I. pharmacists looking for a bigger role in care

Pharmacist Ginger Lemay noticed something was off when one of her regular customers approached the counter several weeks ago at the chain pharmacy where...

Thundermist earns national recognition for efforts to reduce provider burnout

WOONSOCKET – Thundermist Health Center has earned the Joy in Medicine Health System recognition from the American Medical Association. The health system is the first...
THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION announced that it is opposed to the CVS Aetna merger on the grounds that the deal would have anti-competitive effects on the health care industry, driving up patients' costs and reducing access to health care. CVS disagreed with the AMA's conclusions. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER LEE

AMA opposes CVS-Aetna merger

PROVIDENCE – The American Medical Association has concluded the merger between CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc. would be detrimental to the health care...
A 2016 PROGRAM screening state inmates for opioid use disorder and medication-assisted treatment has been linked to a 61 percent decrease in inmate overdose deaths. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Study: ACI addiction-treatment program linked to 61% fewer inmate overdose deaths

PROVIDENCE – A $2 million launch in 2016 of the nation's first program screening all of a state’s inmates for opioid use disorder to...
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