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Bill to place moratorium on for-profit hospital ownership transactions clears R.I....
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Senate Thursday approved legislation that would amend the Hospital Conversion Act to impose a one-year moratorium on hospital ownership transactions...
Care New England CEO Fanale to step down in early 2023
PROVIDENCE – In the wake of a failed hospital merger that could have changed the health care landscape in Rhode Island, and less than...
Brown’s prescription: Will latest failed merger end the university’s bid for...
The dream, as Brown University leaders described it, included Providence’s Jewelry District filled with biotech companies spun off from discoveries made by an “integrated...
Did Attorney General Peter F. Neronha make the right decision denying...
Attorney General Peter F. Neronha on Feb. 17 denied a proposed merger between Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System due to concerns...
Lifespan, CNE withdraw merger application, won’t contest challenges
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's two major hospital systems, Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System, announced on Wednesday that they are withdrawing their...
Mixed reactions: Anger, relief over Lifespan-CNE merger denial
PROVIDENCE – Reactions to the denial of a merger between Rhode Island’s major nonprofit hospital systems were mixed on Thursday, as stakeholders and critics...
Monopoly concerns dominate second Lifespan-CNE public comment meeting
PROVIDENCE – Throughout a two-hour meeting held on Wednesday on the proposed Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System merger, many attendees raised...
Lifespan-CNE merger draws concerns, support at first public comment meeting
PROVIDENCE – Providers, health care executives, union representatives and members of the public weighed in on the proposed merger between Lifespan Corp. and Care...
Study finds Lifespan-CNE merger would boost R.I. academic medicine industry
PROVIDENCE – An independent study commissioned by Brown University found that Rhode Island trails most of its neighboring states in the academic medicine industry.
According...
R.I. ranked ‘fraud hot spot’ for overall reports, business fraud
PROVIDENCE – Fraud-prevention company SEON has noted Rhode Island as a “business fraud hot spot.”
SEON, a fraud monitoring and prevention company with offices in...