Tag: The Miriam Hospital
University Orthopedics names new spine surgery division chief
EAST PROVIDENCE – A longtime University Orthopedics surgeon has been appointed as the practice’s chief of spine surgery.
Dr. Alan Daniels has been serving as...
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...
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...
R.I. hospitals to resume elective surgeries
PROVIDENCE - Hospitals across the state on Monday once again began scheduling some elective surgical procedures.
Lifespan Corp., the state's largest hospital group, is now...
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...
Coronavirus preparations at R.I. hospitals kick into high gear
Normally more than 90% full, Rhode Island Hospital’s occupancy rate in late March dipped to about 75%. The 247-bed The Miriam Hospital had more...
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