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NEW WHEELS: Salve Regina University has launched a new health and mobile outreach program that includes a 40-foot vehicle staffed by nursing students and professors, who will be making the rounds to local organizations for health education. 
COURTESY SALVE REGINA ­UNIVERSITY

Salve nursing students take detour from classroom

After several semesters of delivering presentations and listening to them in a humdrum classroom, Salve Regina University senior Taylor Barnaby is hitting the road. And...

Rhode Island Blood Center launches 4th annual Pint for a Pint...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Blood Center recently announced it has begun its fourth annual Pint for a Pint campaign, meant to boost blood...

Five Questions With: Dr. Thomas Wold

January is recognized as National Blood Donor Month, but across the country and in Rhode Island, there is an urgent need for blood donors....
GIVING SPIRIT: Jonathan Migliori, right, of Providence, completes a platelets donation at the Rhode Island Blood Center’s Providence location on Promenade Street. Supervisor Ilda Dasilva-Rocha attends to Migliori. The center says blood donations are down for a variety of reasons. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Blood supplies under strain at hospitals in R.I.

For most, longer days and rising temperatures in the spring and summer offer a welcome relief from the cold. But some health care workers...

R.I. Blood Center says supply at emergency low, urges donations

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Blood Center is stepping up efforts to increase donations this summer amid a current blood shortage emergency. The nonprofit said...

R.I. faces blood shortage emergency, reduced donations cutting into hospital supplies

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island remains in a blood emergency this month, with about 200 fewer donation pints collected each week, according to the Rhode...
IN NEED: Andre Gill donates blood at the Rhode Island Blood Center. The center says donations are decreasing as people become more active as the economy reopens and COVID-19 infections decline. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

R.I. blood donations trickle in as economy starts to reopen

Blood collections often wane during months when people become busier. And by that guide, 2021 is shaping up to be a difficult spring and...

Westerly Hospital treats 3 COVID-19 patients with donated plasma

WESTERLY – Three COVID-19 patients at Westerly Hospital have received a plasma infusion through donations from the New York Blood Center. The treatment, which was...
SCOTT J. ASADORIAN was recently named executive director of the Rhode Island Blood Center. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND BLOOD CENTER

Asadorian named executive director of Rhode Island Blood Center

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Blood Center has named Scott J. Asadorian as its new executive director. Asadorian started his career with RIBC’s former parent...
RHODE ISLAND BLOOD CENTER announced it has entered into an affiliation with New York Blood Center.

Rhode Island Blood Center enters affiliation with NYBC

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Blood Center has entered into an affiliation with the New York Blood Center, the nonprofit blood supplier announced Tuesday. “Our partnership...
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