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CARE NEW ENGLAND has pledged to continue funding Memorial Hospital's pensions as it waits for approval to close the facility. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

CNE Pledges continued Memorial Hospital pension funding

PAWTUCKET — Care New England’s Board of Directors voted unanimously Thursday night to withdraw Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island from the obligated group for...
CARE NEW ENGLAND announced 200 jobs will stay at the Memorial Hospital site after the hospital closes. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

Care New England to keep 200 jobs, primary care, walk-in clinic...

PAWTUCKET — The United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5082 has withdrawn its Superior Court suit seeking delay of Care New England’s closing of...
SURPLUS: With most Rhode Island hospitals experiencing a decline in patients since 2006, and falling demand for inpatient services, the state has a surplus of hospital beds. Shown above is a patient room from The Miriam Hospital in Providence. / COURTESY ­LIFESPAN CORP.

Hospital demand falls, industry groups differ on whether to embrace trend

Officials and an expert analysis agree Rhode Island has a hospital-bed surplus coupled with a trend toward diminishing demand for inpatient services, but local...

Don’t delay Memorial closing

A lawsuit filed earlier this month by the United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5082 seeking a special master to oversee Care New England’s...
UNITED NURSES AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS Local 5082 has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court seeking a delay of the Memorial Hospital closure process pending a review of the filing of the reverse certificate of need as required by the Hospital Conversions Act. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

UNAP lawsuit seeks to halt Memorial closure, appoint special master

PROVIDENCE – United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5082 filed a lawsuit in Superior Court Dec. 7 seeking a special master to oversee Care New...
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R.I. hospitals’ dilemma: Nurture innovation or be downsized by it

Medical innovation saves and improves otherwise desperate lives and lends prestige to the hospitals nurturing it, while attracting new patients, funding, and top researchers...

Innovation’s cost is real: disruption

Innovation is a requirement of commerce. And right now, one of the industries being most stressed by innovation is health care. Surgery by robot...
CARE NEW ENGLAND is closing Memorial Hospital, with some services remaining long term. A second public-comment meeting will be held Dec. 4 to allow the community to voice concerns on the impact of the closure. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

RIDOH schedules public-comment meeting on Memorial Hospital closure

PAWTUCKET – The R.I. Department of Health tonight is hosting a second meeting to hear public comment on Care New England’s planned shuttering of...

Management is a service job

Dr. Louis B. Rice | University Medicine Foundation CEO, ­president and physician-in-chief Leading a group of physicians is a complex endeavor that requires honesty and...
THE R.I. DEPARTMENT of Health has ordered that Memorial Hospital take no new patients, halt surgeries and emergency medical services until Care New England's application to continue services is reviewed. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

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...
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