There were 12 Covid-19 patients in Rhode Island s new field hospital here in Cranston, and the small staff was preparing for nine more on this rainy, gloomy Monday. Just three miles away, at Kent Hospital, it was much worse. On one of the worst days of the current Covid-19 surge, the acute care facility in Warwick was nearly overrun. Patients in the emergency department were waiting two and three days for one of Kent s 359 beds. With so many patients in so many beds for so many hours, the emergency room was functioning as another inpatient unit of the hospital that has served this community since 1951.
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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