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Under financial pressure, Brown University Health mum on Newport Hospital birthing...

Economic Activity 08/24/2026

Brown University Health is back in the black, but its financial forecast remains grim as costs associated with uncompensated care, insurance denials and federal...

KEEPING WATCH: Cassie Voll, left, and Brooke Cure, both of Newport, are founders of Moms over Margins, an advocacy group fighting to prevent the closure of Newport Hospital’s Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center. Voll and Cure are standing outside the hospital.  PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Birthing center’s future still a source of worry

Print Edition 12/19/2025

When Cassie Voll was first seen at Newport Hospital’s Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center, she arrived on the heels of “a really bad experience...

GETTING TESTED: A member of the medical staff conducts an examination on a patient at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England’s Providence Health Center recently. Officials and patients are concerned that Medicaid funding changes could alter access to routine health care services.  COURTESY PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND/ALLISON TULK PHOTOGRAPHY

Fight over Medicaid alarms OB-GYN patients

Government 08/15/2025

Planned Parenthood patients are worried. Many patients in Rhode Island and elsewhere who rely on the nonprofit for OB-GYN services could lose that assistance under...

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