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MANAGED CARE: Dr. Kevin Baill is unit chief of intensive inpatient adult treatment services in the ambulatory detox clinic at Butler Hospital, which recently added a center of excellence for opioid-addiction treatment. / PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE EWENS

Butler treating opioid addiction as disease

Health Services 12/08/2017

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...

BUTLER HOSPITAL will be the site of a new 24-hour opioid treatment center, funded through the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals using a federal grant. / COURTESY BUTLER HOSPITAL

Raimondo, Butler officials detail $242K opioid-treatment program

Health Services 11/13/2017

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and Care New England representatives, along with officials from Butler Hospital, The Providence Center, and Continuum Behavioral Health, announced...

BROWN UNIVERSITY'S Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative is partnering with Hasbro to add artificial intelligence to the toy maker's Joy For All Companion Pets interactive toy cats and dogs to help senior citizens with medication reminders and other tasks. / COURTESY HASBRO INC.

NSF grant funds Hasbro-Brown robot-pet program to benefit elders

Technology 11/08/2017

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...

PICTURED FROM LEFT: Brian Goldner, chairman and CEO of Hasbro; Barbara Goldner; Dennis D. Keefe, president and CEO of Care New England; Rhoda Perry; Margaret D. "Peggy" Farrell, partner at Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP; Mary Marran; Patricia Thompson; and John Sinnott, vice president, Rhode Island District manager, Gilbane Building Co., at A Gallery Affair II at the Providence Art Club, which raised $88,000 for the Butler Hospital Foundation. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

Butler Hospital Foundation’s annual fundraiser collects $88,000

Health Services 10/02/2017

PROVIDENCE – Butler Hospital Foundation’s fundraiser, A Gallery Affair II, raised more than $88,000 to benefit research at the Providence Art Club Sept. 19. More...

Care New England CEO ‘confident’ Partners takeover deal will happen

Health Services 09/01/2017

PROVIDENCE – A week after Partners HealthCare said it was halting a potential merger with Care New England due to concerns with its finances,...

CARE NEW ENGLAND reported a $6.5 million loss int he company's fiscal third quarter ending in June. Above, one of the hospitals the organization operates, Memorial Hospital. /COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

Care New England posts operating loss of $6.5M in fiscal Q3,...

Health Services 08/04/2017

PROVIDENCE – Care New England reported a $6.5 million operating loss for its fiscal third quarter through June, with the health care provider reporting...

Study shows benefits of hatha yoga in treating depression

Health Services 05/15/2017

PROVIDENCE – Research recently conducted at Butler Hospital, a Care New England facility, evaluated whether treatment outcomes for depressed patients would be improved by...

Five Questions With: Heather Schatten

Health Services 05/01/2017

Heather Schatten is one of three principal investigators on a five-year research study that uses innovative smartphone technology as a suicide-risk assessment tool. The...

WOMEN & INFANTS Hospital of Rhode Island is one of the Care New England facilities that will be affected by layoffs. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Care New England announces layoffs, cites financial challenges

Economy 04/26/2017

Updated 2:06 and 3:23 p.m. PROVIDENCE – A week after it announced it signed a letter of intent to join Boston-based Partners HealthCare of Massachusetts,...