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Westerly Hospital Foundation nets $1M in support

Health Services 05/23/2021

WESTERLY – The Westerly Hospital Foundation has received recent contributions totaling $1 million. The support comes from the Alfred M. Roberts Jr. Charitable Foundation and...

Westerly Hospital staff focuses on fresh food for pantry donations

Health Services 03/07/2021

WESTERLY – Over the past two months, Westerly Hospital employees have collected 1,579 pounds of fresh, healthy food for donation to the Pantry on...

LEADING THE CHARGE: Dr. Susan Duffy, left, and Susan Korber, associate chief nursing officer, both with Lifespan, are working to implement telemedicine for the long term. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Hospitals see benefits of adding telemedicine

Coronavirus 07/17/2020

Christopher Cowan has left his house only twice since COVID-19 hit the U.S. in March. The North Stonington, Conn., resident has serious underlying conditions that...

UNEXPECTED SIDE EFFECT: Dr. Laura Forman, chief of emergency medicine at Kent County Memorial Hospital, says visits to the hospital’s emergency room have dropped by nearly half since the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in Rhode Island. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

A side effect of the pandemic: Emptier emergency rooms

Coronavirus 05/08/2020

Dr. Laura Forman, chief of emergency medicine at Kent County Memorial Hospital, is used to seeing about 200 patients a day come through the...

WESTERLY HOSPITAL and United Nurses & Allied Professionals, a union group, have reached agreement on a three-year contract extension. / COURTESY WESTERLY HOSPITAL

Westerly Hospital, employee union agree on 3-year contract extension

Health Services 10/21/2019

WESTERLY – Westerly Hospital and its United Nurses & Allied Professionals unionized workers have agreed on a three-year extension to an existing collective bargaining...

SOLE FACILITY: Above, from right, parents Garcel Felisor, father, and Yanida Awlvarado, mother, are pictured with their son, Giovanni E. Felisor, and a nurse at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. Hasbro is the only hospital in New England to perform in-utero surgery and other complex fetal procedures.  / COURTESY HASBRO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL/RICHARD SCHULTZ PHOTOGRAPHY

Hospital affiliations boost business and care

Cover Story 05/03/2019

Last spring, a team of doctors at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence performed surgery on a fetus diagnosed with spina bifida. Surgeons covered the unborn...