Tag: R.I. Department of Health
City seeks waiver to direct rescue runs to local clinics in...
CharterCARE Health Partners remains hopeful of its bid to restore the recently shuttered Memorial Hospital emergency room, but Pawtucket officials may try for a...
RWU, RIDOH partnership aids health education, research
BRISTOL – Roger Williams University’s growing public health program is getting a boost from a new partnership with the R.I. Department of Health that will...
The state is only the latest to eye profits from Rhode...
Elaine Keevin took morphine for eight years to battle what was later diagnosed as complex regional pain syndrome, a chronic condition the McGill Pain...
RIDOH: Flu no longer widespread in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has announced flu is no longer widespread in the state, relieving unvaccinated medical personnel from the requirement...
R.I. delegation announces second round of $2.1M to fight opioid epidemic
PROVIDENCE - A second round of $2.1 million in federal funds has been awarded to the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and...
DOH: Opioid deaths decline 5% in 2017
PROVIDENCE – Opioid deaths in Rhode Island decreased 5.1 percent year over year in 2017, according to the R.I. Department of Health Monday.
There were...
CDC: Rhode Island among five states showing decline in opioid emergency...
PROVIDENCE – A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows Rhode Island is one of the five states in the United States...
Women & Infants seeks new spot as medical office lease expires...
WOONSOCKET — Women & Infants Hospital’s lease on its Woonsocket Medical Office at 2168 Diamond Hill Road expires July 1, and the hospital, which is...
State making strides curbing opioid abuse
A 9 percent decline in opioid-overdose deaths during the first eight months of 2017 compared with the same period the previous year shows Rhode...
City fire stations help combat drug addiction
Between 2009 and 2016, more than 1,700 Rhode Islanders died from drug overdoses.
This sobering statistic is from the Prevent Overdose Rhode Island action plan...
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