Tag: Women & Infants Hospital
Providence launches PVD Healthworks to boost health care, social assistance workforce
PROVIDENCE – Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and the city’s Economic Opportunity Director Brian Hull met with state officials and health industry representatives Friday...
Five Questions With: Dr. Maureen Phipps
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released new draft recommendations for cervical cancer screening that would allow women 30-65 to use a Pap...
Women & Infants adds 3 doctors, nurse midwife to OB-GYN department
PROVIDENCE – Three doctors and a certified nurse midwife have joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode...
RIEMA unveils emergency power preservation plan for critical health care facilities
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency’s playbook to safeguard electricity supplies for critical health care facilities during disasters, “Protecting Patients When Disaster Strikes,”...
Women & Infants Presents Nurse With Daisy Award
PROVIDENCE - Women & Infants Hospital presented Kathy Falaguerra of Warwick, a nurse on the Mother/Baby Unit, with the Daisy Award, in conjunction with the...
Care New England CEO ‘confident’ Partners takeover deal will happen
PROVIDENCE – A week after Partners HealthCare said it was halting a potential merger with Care New England due to concerns with its finances,...
Struggling R.I. hospitals welcome $16 million Medicaid boost
Rhode Island hospitals will see a $16 million increase to Medicaid reimbursements in the state budget this year, marking the first year-over-year increase in...
R.I. first state to require fertility-preservation coverage for care that could...
PROVIDENCE – When Kim Lyons of Warwick was diagnosed with leukemia March 1, her doctors told her the best chance for survival was stem...
Care New England posts operating loss of $6.5M in fiscal Q3,...
PROVIDENCE – Care New England reported a $6.5 million operating loss for its fiscal third quarter through June, with the health care provider reporting...
ProThera and WIH receive $1.95M in grant money
Updated at 3:08 p.m.
PROVIDENCE - ProThera Biologics and Women & Infants Hospital were awarded a $1.95 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant...
