Care New England Health System and Massachusetts-based Partners HealthCare announced Wednesday that they have agreed to extend the deadline for reaching…
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Care New England Expected To Keep 200 Jobs In Pawtucket After Closure of Memorial Hospital
Care New England Health System will continue to employ as many as 200 people in Pawtucket after the planned closure of Memorial Hospital.
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Lifespan Reports $14.6M Operating Earnings In Fiscal 2017
Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest hospital system, reported it ended fiscal 2017 with operating earnings of $14.6 million.
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Medical Community Relieved Residents Have A Place To Go After Memorial Hospital Closure
Care New England’s plan to relocate Brown University’s medical residency program to Kent Hospital in Warwick has some in the medical community breathing…
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Could RI Law Have Disarmed A Domestic Abuser Like The Texas Church Shooter?
Rhode Island’s new gun laws aim to prevent shootings by domestic abusers like the gunman in Texas’s church massacre.
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In One Puerto Rican Mountain Town, Health Care Volunteers Frustrated By Logistics
Blanca Ortiz-Torres was sitting in a Puerto Rican oasis. She was at a working bakery in the tiny mountain town of Maricao that had both a generator and…
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To Keep Native Medicinal Knowledge Alive, Leaders Organize Plant Walks
To prevent their collective cultural knowledge about medicinal plants from disappearing, some Vermont tribal nations are sharing their expertise with…
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Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ Smithfield Plant Closure A Surprise To RI Officials
Pharmaceutical company Alexion announced Tuesday it will close its plant in Smithfield, taking 250 jobs with it. The Smithfield site made a drug known…
