Tag: Dr. Michael Fine
Newport Hospital birthing center advocate wins Community Hero Award
NEWPORT – Healthcare access nonprofit Primary Care for All Americans has recognized Cassie Voll with a 2026 Community Hero Award for her efforts to save Newport Hospital’s Noreen Stonor Drexel...
Could Scituate primary care safety net be an answer for R.I.?
Dr. Michael Fine says he walked into the emergency department at The Miriam Hospital in Providence and saw “people spilling into the halls all...
Neronha’s proposed rule takes aim at private equity in health care
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is looking to expand his office’s oversight of health care transactions with the aim of limiting private equity acquisitions...
Addressing doctor shortage could be a primary challenge for lawmakers
State legislators might consider a host of potential prescriptions to ease Rhode Island’s worsening shortage of primary care doctors when they convene in January,...
No quick Rx for primary care
Dr. Michael Fine, a family physician and former state health director, says as many as 400,000 Rhode Island residents don’t have a primary care...
Public health leaders concerned as McKee searches for new RIDOH chief
PROVIDENCE – In the wake of the resignation of the R.I. Department of Health’s widely respected director, Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, the office of Gov....
R.I. Department of Health investigating vaccination ‘cold spots’
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island public health officials are trying to determine why certain areas of the state are taking fewer vaccinations than their population...
Tiny Central Falls, battered by the virus, tells its stories
CENTRAL FALLS (AP) — The beleaguered people of this tiny city moved quickly through the high school gym’s injection stations and then to rest...
As vaccine demand cools, some warm to idea of new messaging...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has reached a point where it has more vaccine supply than demand for it. And the population that has yet...
Calling the shots on a new COVID-19 vaccine
A task force of state lawmakers has started meeting to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine and its distribution in Rhode Island, but House leaders say...
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