Tag: Bradley Hospital
Communities implement MHFA training to address mental distress
Mental Health First Aid, a training program created in Australia in 2001 by Betty Kitchener, a nurse specializing in health education, and Anthony Jorm,...
Hospital demand falls, industry groups differ on whether to embrace trend
Officials and an expert analysis agree Rhode Island has a hospital-bed surplus coupled with a trend toward diminishing demand for inpatient services, but local...
Bradley Hospital offers course in mental health first aid
EAST PROVIDENCE – About one in five adults in the United States experiences mental illness, and less than half of those people seek help,...
NSF grant funds Hasbro-Brown robot-pet program to benefit elders
PROVIDENCE – A National Science Foundation grant of $1 million will fund work by Brown University’s Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative to design a smart-robot animal...
Bradley Hospital raises $477K at annual gala
EAST PROVIDENCE – More than 250 guests attended Bradley Hospital’s Bravo Bradley Gala “Putting on the Glitz,” which raised $477,200 in support of the...
Rhode Island Foundation awards $400K in medical research grants
PROVIDENCE - Seventeen Rhode Island medical research projects will share nearly $400,000 in seed funding from the Rhode Island Foundation, the organization announced Tuesday.
Together...
Four R.I. hospitals receive A grades in Leapfrog safety grade report
Four out of nine Rhode Island hospitals received the highest grade of A in the Leapfrog Spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade report released Wednesday.
Leapfrog...