Virginia Iacono stood at the podium, a hospital bracelet around her wrist. She is 73 and undergoing cancer treatment at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket. …
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Pawtucket, Central Falls Mayors Expected At Public Hearing On Plans To Close Hospital
The Rhode Island Department of Health is seeking public input at a meeting Monday evening on Care New England Health System’s plan to close Memorial…
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Memorial Hospital Shuts Intensive Care Unit
Care New England Health System closed Memorial Hospital’s intensive care unit Monday, prompting accusations by the hospital’s union that it violated…
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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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Majority Of RI, MA Coastal Sites Are Vulnerable To Effects Of Climate Change
A new study recently released by The Nature Conservancy, a global wildlife conservation group, has found the majority of coastal sites, such as wetlands…
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RI Fines Prime $1M For Illegally Converting Hospitals To Nonprofits
Rhode Island’s health department has fined Prime Healthcare Services $1 million for violating state law by failing to get permission to move its two…
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Hospital Workers’ Pension Plan On Life Support
Across the country, millions of employees have entrusted their retirement savings to unregulated pension plans known as church plans. Many of these…
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Is The National Anthem Really Necessary Before Every Game?
Why does Sports World wrap itself in the American flag? I wondered about that last weekend as President Trump strained his thumbs firing off more than a…
