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PAWTUCKET – Nutritional consultant Joy Feldman is offering a free monthly workshop designed to help those living with breast cancer. The workshops will be held at the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation offices.
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1/21/13
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PROVIDENCE – A new 66-unit facility for assisted-living and dementia-care apartments, The Highlands on the East Side, has officially opened its doors. The new facility has been reconstructed from its former use as an apartment building.
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1/21/13
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President and CEO of the VNA of Care New England and the executive vice president of care management at Care New England talks about how her work fits within the changing health care landscape for Rhode Island and its aging population.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Kent Hospital is expanding its cardiology care services with a new affiliation with Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Boston, hospital officials announced Tuesday.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Nearly a year-and-a-half since Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee created the R.I. Health Benefits Exchange by executive order, the Ocean State has yet to see any tangible evidence of what will become the centerpiece in the state of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
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1/28/13
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In her commentary published in the journal, “Resuscitation,” Dr. Megan Ramsey, an emergency room physician at Rhode Island Hospital, challenged a recently published study lauding the use of Twitter to disseminate public health information.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Coastal Medical has launched a pilot medication reconciliation training program for medical assistants in partnership with the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, and the Center for Workforce Training at CCRI.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Director of the R.I. Department of Health talks about the Primary Care Trust Initiative.
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By Richard Asinof |
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A three-year, $105 million contract to build a new IT platform connecting the state of Rhode Island’s health care technology infrastructure has been awarded to Deloitte Consulting, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee announced Thursday.
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By Richard Asinof |
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Included in Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s budget proposal was $500,000 earmarked for designs of a joint Rhode Island College and University of Rhode Island advanced nursing center in Providence’s Knowledge District. It follows a failed attempt to get a $65 million bond question on last fall’s ballot and comes three years after URI President David M. Dooley first floated the idea.
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2/4/13
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