Tag: Dr. Michael Wagner
PBN Health Care Summit: Collaboration needed in light of federal cutbacks
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s already challenged health care system could face even more obstacles depending on federal policy shifts, according to Dr. Michael Wagner,...
Women & Infants set to open spacious new labor and delivery...
PROVIDENCE – Soon, expecting mothers in Rhode Island will have a whole new unit dedicated to labor and delivery.
Next week, Women & Infants Hospital...
Brown Medicine’s Caliendo PBN’s Health Care Heroes career achiever
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Angela Caliendo, executive vice chairperson of medicine in Brown Medicine’s division of infectious diseases, has been chosen as the Career Achiever...
Commentary: To save R.I. health care, invest more in Medicaid
Rhode Island’s health care system is in crisis, and it cannot be ignored any longer.
As many Rhode Islanders can attest, booking a doctor’s appointment...
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...
Alarms sounded on health care crisis
In August, Attorney General Peter F. Neronha publicly renewed his calls for broad health care reforms.
“We have a system that is broken,” he said...
The collapse of primary care in Rhode Island and how we...
Primary care in Rhode Island is facing an immediate and unprecedented crisis, and the gravity of the situation is not entirely understood. Across the...
PBN Health Care Summit: R.I.’s fragile system is now in ‘crisis’
WARWICK – Six months ago, Dr. Michael Wagner said Rhode Island’s health care was fragile. Now he says it’s in a state of crisis.
Among...
Education, compensation key to addressing staffing shortages in health care
Now that American Rescue Plan Act funds have expired, the next six to eight months will be telling of what challenges remain in addressing...
PBN health summit: R.I.’s system gaining strength, but much more needs...
PROVIDENCE – Fragile. That’s the word that comes to Dr. Michael Wagner’s mind when he thinks of Rhode Island’s health care landscape.
“As we ...
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