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Brown University’s Technology Venture Office has reached an agreement with Lifespan to provide IP management and commercialization services to the health care system and has expanded its existing relationship with the Care New England hospital network, the university announced Monday.
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University of Rhode Island Professor Kerry L. LaPlante has been awarded a $703,000 grant from the Pfizer Medical Education Group.
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Lifespan, the state’s largest hospital network and the state’s largest private employer, has experienced a financial shortfall during the first five months of its fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2012.
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CharterCare announced Thursday that it had executed a letter of intent with Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., a national health care services company based in Santa Ana, Calif., to create a partnership.
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CVS Caremark Corp. has instituted a policy that requires employees using the company’s health insurance plan to undergo a health screening by May 1 in order to avoid being charged an additional $50 per month for their coverage, according to the Boston Herald.
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Care New England and The Providence Center have entered into an affiliation agreement that will integrate and strengthen behavioral health services across community- and hospital-based systems, the two entities announced Monday.
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Tunstall Americas, a division of U.K.-based Tunstall Healthcare Group, and a provider of health care communications services, has announced the opening of its new data and operations center in Pawtucket as April 16.
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Although fewer than 2 percent of available health plans satisfy all required health benefits under the federal Affordable Care Act, Massachusetts and Rhode Island plans covered the highest percentage of essential benefits in the country, according to an analysis from HealthPocket Inc.
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(Updated, 4 p.m.) A tentative five-year collective bargaining agreement has been reached between United Nurses & Allied Professionals, Local 5067, the union that represents nearly 600 employees at Landmark Medical Center and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island, and a potential new bidder for Landmark, according to union general counsel Christopher Callaci.
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State regulators reviewing the expedited application by Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island to join the Care New England hospital network have requested additional information, according to Amy Kempe, a spokeswoman with the R.I. Attorney General’s office.
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