Posts Tagged ‘Miriam Hospital’
Out & About in RI: Miriam Hospital Gala raises over $890,000
The Miriam Hospital Raises $893,640 during Annual Gala Event’s auctions and fund-a-need support additional surgical technology for the hospital’s spine center More than 500 donors, friends, and supporters of The Miriam Hospital filled the Wildcat Center on the Harborside Campus of Johnson & Wales University on Friday, May 30 for the hospital’s annual Gala &…
Read MoreThe Miriam Hospital to replace 100+ year old building. New emergency dept, inpatient units.
The Miriam Hospital Secures Approval for Renovation Project The Miriam Hospital will update both the emergency department (ED) and the hospital’s inpatient units with critical upgrades to meet the growing needs of our community. The Hospital has received Certificate of Need (CoN) approval based on a recommendation of the Health Services Council to the Department…
Read MoreThe Miriam Hospital: 1984 – David Brussat
by David Brussat, contributing writer, Architecture Here and There Photo: The Miriam Hospital, David Brussat I was planning such a takedown of Miriam Hospital, known as The Miriam Hospital, or, now, Brown University Health. My hospital system was until recently called Lifespan. Lifespan is now out. It is now Brown University Health. Well, this was…
Read MoreDr. Jeffrey Borkan steps down as chair, Family Medicine, Brown Medical School – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI After 21 years, Dr. Jeffrey Borkan is stepping down as chair of the Family Medicine Department at the Alpert Medical School at Brown Photo (R. Asinof) – Dr. Jeffrey Borkan, outgoing chair of the Family Medicine Department at the Alpert Medical School at Brown, in his office, standing in front of…
Read MoreUPDATED: Lifespan to close its Centers for Weight & Wellness. Patients react.
This story has been updated, see below The Center for Weight Loss and Wellness at Lifespan’s Miriam Hospital location is shutting its doors. The program, portions of which are associated with the Optifast product, is honoring contracts as they wind their way down, depending on pre-payment schedules. No new patients are being accepted. Approximately 1,000…
Read MoreVisiting loved ones in hospitals/care facilities easier – not uniform
In what was a bit of a surprise, the RI Department of Health briefing on Thursday including a loosening of hospital and nursing home visitation. As much as it was a surprise to the general public, it also took the two major hospital groups by surprise as their website policies haven’t been completely updated, to…
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 MoreReport: Closing of Memorial Hospital will have long-term impacts
The Rhode Island Department of Health Community Health and Health Systems Impact Assessment Related to the Closure of Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island Report, February 2020 was released yesterday. The report looked at the impact of the closure of Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket on area hospitals, on the immediate service community of Pawtucket, Central Falls,…
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