Tag: Rhode Island Hospital
Designers try to devise better safe-injection sites
In Providence and Pawtucket, harm-reduction organization Project Weber/RENEW regularly hands out test strips that can detect whether a drug sample contains fentanyl, a highly...
Lifespan ER doctor named to Epic national advisory board
PROVIDENCE – An emergency medicine physician who practices at Lifespan Corp.’s Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals has been named to a national advisory...
Spine surgeons from University Orthopedics, The Miriam first in R.I. to...
EAST PROVIDENCE – Surgeons from University Orthopedics Inc. and The Miriam Hospital say they are the first in Rhode Island to perform minimally invasive...
Hasbro Children’s Hospital honors 2021 Brite Lite winners
PROVIDENCE – Hasbro Children’s Hospital 2021 Brite Lite winners were recognized this month for their work serving young patients.
Nominated by patients and their families,...
Digital health risk platform wins inaugural Brown-Lifespan pitch competition
PROVIDENCE – A digital health platform that helps doctors identify and mitigate social risk factors rose to the top at an inaugural Brown University-Lifespan...
R.I. Foundation awards $360K in medical research grants
PROVIDENCE – Fifteen medical research projects have been awarded more than $360,000 in seed funding from the Rhode Island Foundation to help with various...
Spirit Halloween’s ‘Spirit of Children’ campaign nets Hasbro Children’s Hospital $166K
PROVIDENCE – Spirit Halloween’s “Spirit of Children” fundraising campaign raised $166,175 for Hasbro Children’s Hospital to help benefit the hospital’s Child Life program, as...
Five Questions With: Nie Bohlen
Nie Bohlen is a registered nurse and the director of trauma, burn and children’s surgery verification at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital....
3 R.I. hospitals earn ‘A’ safety grade, 4 others get ‘C’...
PROVIDENCE – Three hospitals in Rhode Island have earned an “A” grade, while four others received a “C” from a national watchdog organization that...
Care New England CEO Fanale to step down in early 2023
PROVIDENCE – In the wake of a failed hospital merger that could have changed the health care landscape in Rhode Island, and less than...