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BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH saw charity care expenses increase 50% year over year in the quarter that ended June 30. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH

Surge in charity care puts hospitals under more strain

Cash-strapped hospitals in Rhode Island are seeing the cost of charity care surge amid disruptions in the health insurance market, and some in the...

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

Brown University Health is back in the black, but its financial forecast remains grim as costs associated with uncompensated care, insurance denials and federal...
TURNAROUND TIME? Brown University Health has recently made leadership changes at Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, which lost $8.9 million in fiscal 2025. The losses have continued in 2026. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Cross-border toll: Brown Health’s Mass. facilities have lost millions; will it...

When state Rep. Lauren H. Carson saw Brown University Health’s financial performance earlier this year, she was fuming. Rhode Island’s largest health system reported a...

Brown University Health restructures leadership at 2 Massachusetts hospitals

PROVIDENCE – Brown University Health has named new presidents and chief financial officers at its two Massachusetts hospitals that is part of a leadership...

As Brown Health operating losses deepen, pressure mounts to save Newport...

Staring down another quarter of operating losses, Brown University Health executives are unwilling to contribute a share of the $4.9 million needed to keep...
OVERSEER: The Miriam Hospital President Maria Ducharme talks about the construction planned at the hospital for the next few years. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

HOSPITAL MAKEOVERS: Health systems look for shot in the arm from...

The administrative wing of The Miriam Hospital on Providence’s East Side is a mess these days, and hospital President Maria Ducharme couldn’t be happier...
ALL IN: The administrative wing at The Miriam Hospital in Providence will be demolished to make way for a new emergency department and other facilities. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Hospitals make their bets on new projects to survive

State health care leaders for months have warned of a hospital system in financial crisis. Yet several local hospitals recently finished or are moving...

Brown Health CFO disappointed in Mass. hospitals’ performance, but optimistic for...

PROVIDENCE – Despite being disappointed by the Massachusetts hospitals' fiscal performances in the third quarter, Brown University Health Chief Financial Officer Peter Markell is...

What does merger of large R.I. physician groups mean for cost,...

Brown University Health is preparing to absorb one of the state’s largest physician groups, putting more than 1,500 doctors under one entity – a...

$175M acquisition is worth it for Lifespan

Despite facing financial challenges in the recent fiscal year, Lifespan Corp. is confident its $175 million purchase of two cash-strapped hospitals in Massachusetts will...
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