Tag: Butler Hospital
BCBSRI: Addiction recovery better at home
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is working to change common opinion that recovery must happen at far-away locales, sharing...
Parity seen lacking in mental, physical care
By law, mental or behavioral health and physical health should be treated with parity by insurers but Rhode Island lawmakers and insurance professionals say...
Alzheimers’ Association to host Caregiver’s Journey conference
WARWICK – About 23,000 Rhode Islanders are living with Alzheimer’s disease, cared for by roughly 53,000 unpaid caregivers, whose quality of life will be...
Report: Providence VA Medical Center R.I.’s leader in LGBTQ health care...
PROVIDENCE – Providence VA Medical Center earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index 2018, the only hospital in the...
Top Doctors List names 279 local physicians to ranks for 2017-18
PROVIDENCE – About 279 physicians in Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass., have been named by their peers to the Top Doctors List for...
State making strides curbing opioid abuse
A 9 percent decline in opioid-overdose deaths during the first eight months of 2017 compared with the same period the previous year shows Rhode...
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...
Butler Hospital, Rhode Island Mood & Memory Research Institute join Alzheimer’s...
PROVIDENCE — Butler Hospital’s Memory and Aging Program and the Rhode Island Mood & Memory Research Institute are participating in Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ international Alzheimer’s disease prevention...
R.I. hospitals’ dilemma: Nurture innovation or be downsized by it
Medical innovation saves and improves otherwise desperate lives and lends prestige to the hospitals nurturing it, while attracting new patients, funding, and top researchers...
Butler treating opioid addiction as disease
Rhode Island added a fourth center of excellence for opioid-addiction treatment at Providence’s Butler Hospital in November, part of a statewide effort to focus...