A crucial crossroads for R.I.’s hospitals Rhode Island’s health care system is on the cusp of unprecedented changes in 2021. COVID-19 buffeted the financial health of the state’s not-for-profit hospitals. Care New England Health System, the state’s second-largest nonprofit hospital system that includes Butler Hospital, Kent County Memorial Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital, reported a $13 million net loss and…
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RIDOH: Nursing home staff should be vaccinated in phases
STATE LEADERS are still working on a final plan for distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to the general population. After health care workers and the elderly, who deserves priority?/ AP PHOTO/TED S. WARREN PROVIDENCE – In the coming days, staff from Woonsocket-based CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens will soon be traveling to Rhode Island s long-term care facilities to begin vaccinating staff and residents, who include some of the hardest-hit individuals throughout the pandemic so far. Each facility in Rhode Island has opted into a federal program with the…
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