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PRECHECKS: Dr. Ana Tuya Fulton, right, Care New England Health System executive chief of geriatrics and palliative care, and Ruth Scott, senior director of population health for Integra Community Care Network LLC, review their plans before the hospital-at-home program goes live at Kent Hospital in Warwick. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM/RYAN PICKERING

Kent offers state’s first ‘hospital-at-home’ acute care program

Call it home sweet hospital. Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick recently received a waiver from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and...
CLOSE WATCH: Registered nurse Jessica Pace, left, who works in the Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, checks the intravenous line of Dolce Contreras, 32, of Central Falls, who is receiving convalescent plasma therapy as part of a clinical trial on its effectiveness against COVID-19. / COURTESY LIFESPAN CORP./WILLIAM MURPHY

Clinical trial on plasma makes headway in R.I.

Rhode Island Hospital is one of 30 medical facilities nationwide testing whether a plasma-based treatment for COVID-19 that has been approved for emergency use...
THE PAPER TRAIL: Melissa Szymanski sits with some of her medical bills at home in Glastonbury, Conn. Szymanski got sick earlier this year and wound up with a $3,200 bill because she wasn’t diagnosed initially with COVID-19. Later, tests showed she had it, and she is fighting to have her bills reduced. / AP PHOTO/JESSICA HILL

Coverage safety net has plenty of holes

COVID-19 can do more than torment patients physically. It also clobbers some financially. Even though many insurers and the U.S. government have offered to pick...

R.I. added to N.Y., N.J. and Conn. travel advisory lists

PROVIDENCE – After nearly a month of Rhode Island being removed from a New York-Connecticut-New Jersey travel advisory list, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced...

Rhode Island Hospital part of national trial weighing benefits of COVID-19...

PROVIDENCE – A clinical trial aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of treating COVID-19 patients with antibodies from others who have had or been exposed...
INDEPENDENT TRACKING WEBSITES, including The COVID Tracking Project by The Atlantic, are now aligning themselves with data reported by the R.I. Department of Health. / PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

COVID-19 tracking websites change testing calculations to align with RIDOH

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's daily percentage of positive coronavirus tests have varied widely for weeks, depending on who is tracking the data and how...

R.I. to be removed from travel advisories in N.Y., N.J., Conn.

PROVIDENCE – Travelers from Rhode Island were removed from travel advisories in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the states confirmed to PBN on...

COVID-19 fight far from won

Rhode Island continues to do better than many other states in limiting major outbreaks of COVID-19. But such success can be fleeting, as we’ve...

Virus testing data raises questions

Rhode Island’s coronavirus cases have been on the rise for several weeks, but an inconsistency in the way testing data is being interpreted has...

R.I. residents added to travel advisories in Mass., N.Y., N.J., Conn.

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has been added to travel advisory lists in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York as of Tuesday. Rhode Islanders traveling...
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