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As workmen busily labored on the construction of Tockwotton Home’s new $52.3 million, five-story facility along the edge of Narragansett Bay, Kevin McKay, Tockwotton’s executive director, led a tour of the facility on Aug. 13 for U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline and news media.
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Ninety-three teens, ages 16 to 19, graduated on Aug. 17 from the Lifespan Summer Youth Employment Program.
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The R.I. Business Group on Health, a coalition of more than 70 employers with more than 50,000 employees, has inserted itself into the ongoing conflict and negotiations between Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, Landmark Medical Center and its pending buyer, Steward Health Care.
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Lifespan’s annual report for 2011, published in late July, provides a thoughtful look backward at the previous year of Rhode Island’s largest private employer, with its workforce of more than 12,400.
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PROVIDENCE – Performance Physical Therapy recently announced the opening of its newest of six clinics, in the Smithfield Medical Center in Smithfield. A seventh clinic is scheduled to open later this month in Barrington at 310 Maple Ave.
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PROVIDENCE – Homefront Health Care, one of the largest providers of in-home health care in Rhode Island, recently invested $175,000 in upgrading its electronic medical-records system and its remote-patient monitoring.
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – Amazing Charts introduced a cloud-based version of its electronic health-records software targeted at small, independent medical practices, the company announced Aug. 3.
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PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital is taking part in a multisite clinical trial to measure the efficacy of a catheter-based treatment for uncontrolled hypertension. The principal investigator is Dr. Timothy P. Murphy, interventional radiologist and director of the Vascular Disease Research Center.
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“Healthier employees are happier employees,” said Dina Pescione, a benefits manager at Amica Mutual Insurance Co. And that happiness factor, she says, has a direct correlation with the positive manner in which customer service is delivered, a key focus of what Amica sees as its competitive edge in insurance.
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By Richard Asinof
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WOONSOCKET – MultiCell Technologies announced on Aug. 10 its updates on preclinical research results for MCT-465 and MCT-485, the first of a family of prospective cancer therapeutics based on the use of its patented signaling technology. MCT-465 and MCT-485 are being investigated as prospective treatments for primary liver cancer and triple-negative breast cancer.
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