Tag: Memorial Hospital
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 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PAWTUCKET — The United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5082 has withdrawn its Superior Court suit seeking delay of Care New England’s closing of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...