Tag: Providence VA Medical Center
7 hospitals in R.I. earn 4-star rating from federal health agency
PROVIDENCE – Seven hospitals in Rhode Island have earned four-star distinctions in the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' 2026 Overall Hospital Star...
Banks are looking to military veterans as a workforce pipeline
Inside the Johnston offices of Operation Stand Down Rhode Island, a nonprofit supporting homeless and at-risk military veterans with housing, job training and legal...
For some veterans, venturing out is what they want to do
Three years ago, a woman selling ornaments at a kiosk in the Providence VA Medical Center caught Raymond Sienko’s attention while he was waiting...
Transcranial magnetic stimulation treatments are helping patients with depression
Akos Antwi recalled the day when one of her clients who had been suffering with depression for more than 30 years came to her...
URI College of Pharmacy, Providence VA form research partnership
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island's College of Pharmacy is collaborating with the Providence VA Medical Center on a new research partnership.
The...
Five Questions With: Dr. Emily Ortega Goddard
Dr. Emily Ortega Goddard has joined Brown Surgical Associates in the practice’s Divisions of Bariatric Surgery and General Surgery. Goddard will step into her...
One Neighborhood Builders behind $2.2M modular home project in Providence
PROVIDENCE – They looked like children’s building blocks being stacked neatly together, as the prefabricated modular homes that make up the “Bowdoin Street Rowhouse”...
R.I. Hospital tightens visitation to 3-hour window amid COVID-19 surge
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp., the state's largest hospital system, announced on Wednesday that it's tightening visitation policies, limiting visitors for inpatients at Rhode Island...
Providence VA sticks with longer quarantine; not adopting new CDC guidance
PROVIDENCE – While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered updated guidance this week, dropping its recommended time for asymptomatic people to...
Patients at VA Providence now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine
PROVIDENCE – COVID-19 vaccinations are underway for patients at the VA Providence Healthcare System.
On Jan. 6, John Kirby, a veteran, was the first nonemployee...
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