Tag: Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott
R.I. Department of Health to host free opioid-addiction speaker seminar
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health and the organization Creating Outreach About Addiction Support Together will host a free speaker seminar on the...
RIDOH orders masks for health workers as widespread flu cases mount
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has announced that cases of flu in Rhode Island are widespread, triggering the requirement that unvaccinated health...
RIDOH announces R.I. HIV benchmark on World AIDS Day
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health announced Rhode Island has met the first target of the 90-90-90 initiative, a global effort at ensuring...
RIDOH halts emergency, surgery, new patient services at Memorial Hospital
PROVIDENCE - The R.I. Department of Health has ordered Memorial Hospital to stop taking new patients, surgeries and emergency services, effective Dec. 1, until...
Rhode Island Medical Imaging donates $10K to RIDOH to expand breast...
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo accepted a $10,000 check Nov. 8 from Rhode Island Medical Imaging providing financial assistance for access to breast...
DOH chief named president-elect of National Health Directors Group
PROVIDENCE – State health directors across the nation have elected Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, director of the R.I. Department of Health, as president-elect of the...
Butler Hospital Foundation’s annual fundraiser collects $88,000
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.
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RIEMA unveils emergency power preservation plan for critical health care facilities
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency’s playbook to safeguard electricity supplies for critical health care facilities during disasters, “Protecting Patients When Disaster Strikes,”...
DOH: Providence youth turning away from tobacco use
PROVIDENCE – Fewer Providence teenagers report using e-cigarettes and flavored-tobacco products than do their peers from other Rhode Island cities following Providence’s 2013 tobacco...
March of Dimes recognizes R.I. for reduction in preterm birth rates
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island received the March of Dimes Virginia Apgar Prematurity Campaign Leadership Award on May 1 for the state’s dramatic reduction in...
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