Tag: Rhode Island Hospital
Providence Safe Stations program sees 100th visitor, city issues $375K in...
PROVIDENCE – Providence Safe Stations, a service that allows people with substance use disorders to seek help at any of the city’s fire stations,...
Rhode Island Hospital honors emergency center director
PROVIDENCE – Dr. David Portelli has been honored with the Service to Hospital Award from the Rhode Island Hospital Medical Staff Association.
Portelli has served...
BCBSRI takes aim at adverse drug reactions for seniors
PROVIDENCE – A pilot program launched by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Brown Emergency Medicine aims to cut down on the...
Five Questions With: Dr. Megan L. Ranney
Dr. Megan L. Ranney, an attending emergency physician at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, founded and directs the Emergency Digital Health Innovation...
How safe is your workplace?
In March 2018, an employee of SMM New England Corp., doing business as Sims Metal Management in Providence, was erecting a sign in the...
Babineau: ‘Health care is local’
Dr. Timothy J. Babineau misses seeing patients, but as Lifespan Corp.’s president and CEO for the past seven years, the former cancer surgeon has...
Lifespan claims it can block Partners’ proposed acquisition of Care New...
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. says it can block the pending acquisition of Care New England Health System by Boston-based Partners HealthCare because it owns...
Study looks at effectiveness of pharmacist-delivered MAT to treat opioid use...
Efforts to curb the opioid epidemic include increasing access to care and reducing stigma, goals officials say a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health-funded,...
R.I. Hospital, Teamsters union agree to 5-year contract agreement
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital and Teamsters Local 251 have reached a five-year contract agreement that became effective April 1, the hospital announced.
According to...
Rhode Island Hospital receives $1.6M to study opioid treatment and care...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital has received $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the effectiveness of providing medication and care...
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