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Lifespan, Care New England seek regulators’ approval to merge

Lifespan and Care New England have filed a formal application with state regulators to combine their hospital systems into one academic medical center with Brown University.  The filings were submitted to state health officials late Monday but had not yet been publicly posted, Joseph Wendelken, a Health Department spokesman, said.  Rhode Island’s largest and second-largest […]

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Nurses Union Opposes Fast-Track Regulatory Review Of Care New England-Partners Deal

The union representing nurses at Care New England is asking state health regulators to deny the hospital system’s request for a fast-track review of its proposed takeover by Massachusetts-based Partners HealthCare. The United Nurses and Allied Professionals Union – which represents about 1,200 of the hospital system’s employees – said in a Sept. 5, 2018 letter to […]

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