Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’
CVS: $5 Million Health Care Career Scholarship Program for Black/Latinx students
Collaboration with UNCF is part of CVS Health’s commitment to social justice and racial equity The CVS Health Foundation today announced it has established a five-year, $5 million CVS Health Foundation Health Care Careers Scholarship program, in collaboration with UNCF (United Negro College Fund). Scholarships will be awarded to Black and Latinx students pursuing an…
Read MoreOrthoRI moves ahead with new facility opening in Warwick
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com – contributing writer, health Photo: OrthoRI, the new facility at 300 Crossings in Warwick will feature same-day ambulatory surgery. On March 1, 2021, Ortho RI is scheduled to open its new 66,000-square-foot facility at 300 Crossings, a major step forward for the non-hospital-centric orthopedic practice, the largest orthopedic group practice in…
Read MoreAre you OK? – by Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI – contributing writer, health Photo: Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, who wrote about her miscarriage in a recent op-ed in The New York Times. Are you OK? A simple question of empathy opens up a conversation about miscarriage and loss and shows us a path toward healing When Meghan Markle,…
Read MoreTelehealth is redefining the office visit and patient relationships
How the rapid adoption of telehealth as a platform in the delivery of health care is redefining the office visit and the future relationship between patients and providers Call it a moment of Zen, a serendipitous encounter, with profound resonance. Eight years ago, on May 22, 2012, a bevy of national experts came to Rhode…
Read MoreWe travel the spaceways, from crisis to crisis – by Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer Photo: The diversion of ambulances from Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket and Kent Hospital in Warwick has become “situation normal” at the Emergency Room at Miriam Hospital, according to nurses there, causing three-hour-long delays in patients being seen. How do we choose to be participants, not passive observers, in…
Read MoreI choose the VA Health System…every time
Many years ago, two good friends of mine, Jesse Jeselonis and Ron Camaioni, recommended becoming part of the VA Health System. I procrastinated but they none the less kept after me. I am very thankful they did. At the Providence VA you are treated like a person, not like a number, like a paycheck or…
Read MoreThe office visit is a dinosaur
The changes to the health care delivery landscape in Rhode Island keep occurring at a fast and furious pace, the result of constant disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. A fundamental tectonic shift has occurred, a sea change, in the way that providers and patients are talking to each other – and how providers are…
Read MoreWhat we have here is a failure to communicate
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer Neighborhood Health Plan of RI’s president and CEO sent letters to the House and Senate Finance committees opposing a telemedicine budget article, but apparently kept his board of directors in the dark about the content Photo: A portion of the letter sent by Peter Marino, president and CEO of…
Read MoreYour Coronavirus Update – Today, July 16, 2020
National & International Walmart (Sam’s Clubs) customers will have to wear masks. Other national stores are joining this call for mask wearing by customers, such as Kroger, Kohls – and all members of US Retailers Association are being asked to do so. California has closed all indoor establishments – restaurants, bars, gyms, hairdressers – have…
Read MoreUpdate of RI Nursing Homes, Group Homes: Approx. 79 new cases/50 deaths. Visitation questioned.
As Rhode Island opens up some visiting, it will be up to the individual facility whether or not to participate. One nursing home told us – “not until we have zero cases – not yet”. Here is the data that has been updated since last week. Note: current active cases in a facility are not…
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