Tag: Robert Hackey
R.I. joining more licensing compacts, but will there be any difference?
Rhode Island is joining another interstate medical licensure compact that allows health care workers to practice in multiple states with an expedited licensing process,...
Where does Lifespan-Brown agreement leave Care New England?
As Rhode Island’s largest health system celebrates a new affiliation agreement with Brown University, the win for Lifespan Corp. and Brown could create a...
Not everybody sold on the proposed Centurion hospital transaction in R.I.
Some view the Centurion Foundation’s proposal to buy Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital from Prospect Medical Holdings as a...
City opens PILOT talks with Lifespan
While Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley has celebrated the passage of the latest payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements with Providence’s four colleges and universities, uncertainties remain about...
Kent’s financial woes linger, but what’s the solution?
WARWICK – Hospital systems in Rhode Island appear to be on the road toward financial recovery after both Lifespan Corp. and Care New England...
Labor unrest simmers at hospitals
Health care workers across the state are grappling with a mix of low pay and poor working conditions that is driving colleagues away from...
Bryant school will train students for science, business sides of health
BRAD CROUGH doesn’t bat an eye at the prospect of sorting through a dizzying tranche of numbers.
A skilled coder with degrees in accounting and...
Will R.I. legislation on hospital mergers, acquisitions scare off suitors?
The state review process for buying or selling hospitals in Rhode Island is going to get tougher under newly approved legislation.
Meanwhile, one of the...
CODE RED: Amid closures, nursing homes fight for survival
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, the staff at Cherry Hill Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Johnston...
Lifespan, CNE move toward merger, leaving many to wonder about side...
For decades, Rhode Island’s two largest hospital systems have been rivals, each enduring similar financial pressures on their own in a small but competitive...