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University Orthopedics surgeon performs first R.I. thumb joint replacement with new FDA-approved...

PROVIDENCE – A University Orthopedics Inc. surgeon has become the first in Rhode Island to perform a thumb joint replacement using TOUCH CMC 1, a prothesis...

R.I. Senate golf tournament raises $30K for Hasbro Children’s

PROVIDENCE – Hasbro Children's, the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital, has received $30,000 from funds raised during the R.I. Senate’s fifth annual charity...

Brown Health critical care transport program earns national accreditation

PROVIDENCE – LifePACT, the critical care transport team at Brown University Health, has become the country’s third ground-only medical transport program to receive accreditation...
HANGING HANDS: Roger Williams Medical Center was one of two troubled Rhode Island hospitals – the other was Our Lady of Fatima – purchased by the nonprofit Centurion Foundation in 2026 after taking several years trying to line up financing and obtain approvals. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. healthcare system struggles to make recovery

Massive cuts to insurance, persistent staffing shortages and widespread financial woes continue to vex Rhode Island’s healthcare system in 2026, though the Ocean State...

4 Brown University Health hospitals receive American Health Association awards

PROVIDENCE – The American Heart Association has bestowed four Brown University Health hospitals with awards for their care of stroke and diabetes patients. Rhode Island Hospital, Newport Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Saint Anne’s Hospital each...
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...
PROGRAM ­SUCCESS: Amy Grzybowski, vice president of workforce development and ­community relations at New ­England Institute of Technology, says the success of its surgical technologist pilot program allowed it to become a registered ­apprenticeship. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Surgical technologist pilot turned apprenticeship helping hospitals fill vacancies

In the operating rooms of Rhode Island hospitals, the work moves fast. Scalpels are handed off, instrument trays are counted and procedures unfold with...
INTERNS AND RESIDENTS represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents rallied outside Rhode Island Hospital on June 5 as the union attempts to negotiate its first contract with Brown University Health. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

At hospitals, both management and residents feeling financial woes

While lawmakers on Smith Hill were busy putting the final touches on the state’s fiscal 2027 $15.2 billion budget, a first-of-its-kind labor action was...

Rhode Island federal court weighs possible disciplinary action against DOJ lawyers...

Rhode Island’s federal judiciary will consider a possible disciplinary proceeding for the U.S. Department of Justice lawyers assigned to an ongoing court fight over...

Rhode Island Hospital resident physicians, fellows rally for new labor contract

PROVIDENCE – Approximately 70 residents and fellow physicians rallied outside Rhode Island Hospital on Friday, demanding that their employer, Brown University Health, agree to...
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