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The Miriam gains new accreditation for emergency senior care

PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital has been recognized as an advanced provider of emergency care for older adults. The hospital's emergency department recently received Level 2...
HEALTHY TALK: Dr. Edward McGookin, third from the left, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit: Shaping the Future of Care on Oct. 30. McGookin is chief of primary care at Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care. With him during the first of two panel discussions are, from left, Victoria Williams, assistant professor of health care administration at Rhode Island College; Dr. Roger Mitty, president and chief operating officer of Care New England Medical Group; and Sen. Pamela Lauria, a nurse practitioner. Moderating is PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN Health Summit panel: Could R.I. fix doctor shortage by looking...

Despite the state’s ongoing shortage of primary care providers, Rhode Island’s largest health system has seen success in recruiting doctors from surrounding states. However,...

Five Questions With: John Connor

John Connor is a principal at Vantage Builders Inc., a full-service commercial contractor specializing in preconstruction, construction management and design-build service. As one of...

Brown Health to offer free breast and cervical cancer screenings

PROVIDENCE – Brown University Health’s Cancer Institute and Community Health Institute are planning to host breast and cervical cancer screenings, as well as an...

Five Questions With: Dr. Jill O’Brien

Brown University Health recently announced that Dr. Jill O’Brien has been named chief medical officer and medical director of hospital medicine for Morton Hospital...

Brown Health launches unified adult partial hospital program

PROVIDENCE – Brown University Health recently announced it brought together its adult partial hospital programs at Newport and Rhode Island Hospitals to form the...

Five Questions With: Dr. Clark Chen

Rhode Island Hospital recently launched the nation’s first clinical trial looking into the use of non-invasive focused ultrasound in combination with immunotherapy to treat...
OVERSEER: The Miriam Hospital President Maria Ducharme talks about the construction planned at the hospital for the next few years. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

HOSPITAL MAKEOVERS: Health systems look for shot in the arm from...

The administrative wing of The Miriam Hospital on Providence’s East Side is a mess these days, and hospital President Maria Ducharme couldn’t be happier...
ALL IN: The administrative wing at The Miriam Hospital in Providence will be demolished to make way for a new emergency department and other facilities. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Hospitals make their bets on new projects to survive

State health care leaders for months have warned of a hospital system in financial crisis. Yet several local hospitals recently finished or are moving...

Rhode Islanders are slow to get the COVID-19 shot this year....

Nurse practitioner Michaela Maynard braced for a barrage of questions and concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine. But most patients at Open Door Health in Providence,...
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