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Care New England graduates 23 from advanced nursing degree program

PROVIDENCE – Twenty-three nurses from across Care New England Health System graduated from the University of Rhode Island’s College of Nursing in the last...
BIGGER IMPACT: Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, a former cancer surgeon, said he used to care for patients one at a time, but now as president and CEO of Lifespan, “I take care of them 10,000 at a time.”
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Babineau: ‘Health care is local’

Dr. Timothy J. Babineau misses seeing patients, but as Lifespan Corp.’s president and CEO for the past seven years, the former cancer surgeon has...
A SIMPLER TIME: Lifespan President and CEO Dr. Timothy J. Babineau keeps a Norman Rockwell print of a country doctor in his office in memory of his father, a solo practitioner for years. That reality is far from the current controversy over the proposed Care New England-Partners HealthCare merger.
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Health care merger is complex, but effects should be made clear

Before they’re allowed to merge, however, we hope that public officials do exactly what they’ve promised: Evaluate this deal thoroughly and make sure Rhode...

Lifespan claims it can block Partners’ proposed acquisition of Care New...

PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. says it can block the pending acquisition of Care New England Health System by Boston-based Partners HealthCare because it owns...
CARE NEW ENGLAND and Brigham Health have launched a website refuting claims that a proposed merger will drain Rhode Island of medical resources.

CNE, Brigham Health launch website touting proposed merger

PROVIDENCE - Care New England and Brigham Health are publicly promising to keep health care local and affordable, and reiterating that a merger between...

Care New England launches Physician Leadership Academy

PROVIDENCE – A dozen Care New England Health System doctors are members of CNE’s new Physician Leadership Academy inaugural class. The yearlong academy, which started...

Lifespan announces opposition campaign aimed at Partners’ CNE acquisition

Updated, 10:50 a.m., April 25 and 8:40 p.m., April 24 PROVIDENCE - Citing a list of worries ranging from higher health care costs to patients,...

Public in the middle on merger dispute

Updated at 9:41 a.m., April 12 The state hasn’t even begun its formal review of the proposed merger between Care New England Health System and...
PROPOSED CHANGES: Panelists at the 2019 PBN Spring Health Care Summit discuss efforts of President Donald Trump’s administration to undermine or replace the Affordable Care Act, as well as Trump’s proposed changes in regulations for accountable care organizations and the cost of prescription drugs. From left: Dr. Marylou Buyse, chief medical officer of Neighborhood Health Plan of R.I.; Dr. James E. Fanale, CEO of Care New England; Chris Ferraro, chief financial officer at Coastal Medical; Marie L. Ganim, R.I. health insurance commissioner; Stephen Kogut, professor of pharmacy practice at URI; and Zachary W. Sherman, director of HealthSource RI.
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Undermining of ACA could reverse R.I. gains

If repeated attempts by President Donald Trump’s administration to undermine or replace the Affordable Care Act aren’t thwarted, consequences in Rhode Island could be...

Majzun leaves Women & Infants Hospital

PROVIDENCE – The president and chief operating officer of Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island has resigned after serving in the role for...
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