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 &…

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The Miriam Hospital: 1984 – David Brussat

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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…

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UPDATED: Lifespan to close its Centers for Weight & Wellness. Patients react.

A black and white photo of the center for weight and wellness.

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…

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Visiting loved ones in hospitals/care facilities easier – not uniform

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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…

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We travel the spaceways, from crisis to crisis – by Richard Asinof

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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…

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Report: Closing of Memorial Hospital will have long-term impacts

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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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