Posts Tagged ‘rhode island hospital’
Expanded Virtual, Intensive, Short-Term Mental Health Care for RI, MA adults at Brown University Health
Blended Program Offers More Specialized, Expanded Services Brown University Health has brought together its adult partial hospital programs at Newport and Rhode Island Hospitals to form the Brown University Health Partial Hospital Program. Fully virtual, the evidence-based treatment delivers intensive, short-term mental health care to adults across Southeastern New England. A partial hospital program (PHP)…
Read MoreProvidence Biopharma, Ocean Biomedical, Notified of Termination of License Agreements with Brown University, RI Hospital
Ocean Biomedical, a Providence company founded in 2019 and associated with Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital Technologies, received a termination notice for several technology licenses from Elkurt, Inc. The termination was due to alleged breaches, including payment failures and unmet development milestones. On June 9, 2025, Ocean Biomedical, Inc. received a termination notice from…
Read MoreWhen protests against terrorizing communities, terrorize communities
In Providence, there seems to be no concern about loud demonstrations happening at locations that have nothing to do with the issue being demonstrated about. They wear their First Amendment rights as a steel shield. Anything goes. Or does it? One such event happened on Thursday when a group identifying themselves as the RI Party…
Read MoreA devoted family meets a ‘broken’ system of care for Alzheimer’s – Ocean State Stories
This story is published in partnership between RINewsToday.com and Ocean State Stories, a journalism initiative at Salve Regina University. by G Wayne Miller Photo, top: Roger Begin, left, and brother Richard – Submitted photo As the incurable disease moves him toward inevitable death, the stress on him and his devoted family becomes overwhelming. A story…
Read MoreR.I.H., a place for healing? – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo: Rhode Island Hospital’s Southwest Pavilion, 1900, Stone, Carpenter & Willson. (PPS) Editor’s note: Two days ago I received a pacemaker at Rhode Island Hospital. I was discharged yesterday, and just by chance I happened upon this old post from 2016 about the proposed demolition of…
Read MoreCOVID. I trusted the science and public health and it nearly killed me – Michael Morse
by Michael Morse, contributing writer I trusted the science, and public health and it nearly killed me “Trust the science,” they said. So I got their vaccine. I masked in public. I socially distanced. “Your doctor understands Covid far more than Google,” they said. So I called my doctor when I tested positive with Covid. …
Read MoreSupplies of contrast dye used in medical scans and procedures critically low. Non-emergency use paused.
Two anecdotal stories came to us this week about people seeking medical care in Rhode Island – one at Rhode Island Hospital and one at Women & Infants Hospital. Both told of tests not being able to be done because of lack of contrast dye. At Rhode Island Hospital, the case involved a CT Scan…
Read MoreCOVID Recovery – Michael Morse
by Michael Morse, contributing writer Easter Sunday, noon. In bed. COVID positive. Fever. Exhausted. Same day, a few hours later, sitting on edge of bed, uncontrolled coughing. Throat on fire. Can’t swallow, airway closing. “Don’t wait too long” echoes in my head. My doctor is out – obviously. Doctor on call can’t do anything without seeing…
Read MoreMerger fever – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer The RI Foundation weighs in with its assessment of the proposed merger of Care New England, Brown and Lifespan — but what is missing? It was big week for news around mergers of health systems in Rhode Island. R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha announced that application under the Hospital…
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