Tag: Rhode Island Hospital
COVID-19 deaths increase by 26 in R.I.; Raimondo unveils tracking app
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo on May 19 announced the rollout of a state COVID-19 phone application that will digitally track users’ locations.
The...
Chiropractor sentenced to 3 years probation, fined $75K for tax evasion
PROVIDENCE – Leonard Marino, president of Chiropractic Associates LLC in Providence, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to three years probation and fined $75,000...
4 R.I. hospitals get ‘A’ grade, 3 earn ‘C’ from national...
PROVIDENCE – Four Rhode Island hospitals have received “A” grades in The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade spring ratings.
Leapfrog, a national nonprofit, monitors quality...
Stepping Up: OSJL Charitable Foundation, Encore Restaurant Group serving up meals...
PROVIDENCE – When Gov. Gina M. Raimondo offered restaurants the opportunity to allow take-out in order to stay in operation during the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Five Questions With: Dr. Athena Poppas
Dr. Athena Poppas is director of the Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute at Rhode Island, The Miriam and Newport hospitals and a professor of medicine at...
Study: Respiratory viruses tend to infect young children before adults
PROVIDENCE – Some types of respiratory viruses, including human coronaviruses, may infect young children before moving to older people, according to a recently published...
Hospital workers getting own brand of aid
Music performed by the group Healing Through Harmony, made up of students from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, plays softly in...
A side effect of the pandemic: Emptier emergency rooms
Dr. Laura Forman, chief of emergency medicine at Kent County Memorial Hospital, is used to seeing about 200 patients a day come through the...
Additional $1.4M issued to nonprofits from COVID-19 Response Fund
PROVIDENCE – An additional $1.4 million was issued to 51 local nonprofit organizations through the United Way of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island...
Researchers learn from drug users about dealers’ efforts to curb overdoses...
PROVIDENCE – One way to address opioid overdoses and deaths may be to examine the relationship with drug users and their dealers, researchers from...
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