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Christopher Koller, the president and CEO of Milbank Memorial Fund, revisits the behind-the-scenes story about how Rhode Island narrowly escaped efforts by the private equity forces of Steward Health Care to purchase Landmark Medical Center, in an essay entitled: "Outrunning the Beasts of Hell: How One Community Hospital Avoided the Fallout of Private Equity's Investments in Health Care."
Outrunning the beasts of hell
WOONSOCKET – Landmark Medical Center sits not far from the Blackstone River and its waterfalls’ “thundering mists,” which translates in Algonquian to “Woonsocket,” … more
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Senate President Dominick Ruggerio introduced 25 health care bills on Tuesday, Mach 5.
A Rhode Island tune, with rewritten lyrics
PROVIDENCE – Paul Simon rewrote the lyrics for his 1973 song, “American Tune,” which he performed as a duet with Rhiannon Giddens at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival. Just as … more
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Dr. Michael Wagner, MD, the president and CEO of Care New England, provides an illuminating vision of the future of Rhode Island's second largest health system in an exclusive interview with ConvergenceRI.
When convergence works, and silos get broken down
PROVIDENCE – ConvergenceRI had an epiphany while covering the Providence Business News native advertising event on Thursday morning, April 4, at the Marriott, which combined a “Health … more
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Four women leaders, Dr. Beata Nelken, Carol Ventura, Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera, and Barbara Papitto, have come together to create 30 units of affordable housing as health care in Central Falls, the first such project of its kind focused on women and children at risk of homelessness.
Changing the lives of women and children in real time
CENTRAL FALLS – In the state’s smallest city, the most recognizable logo is a cartoon emblem of a smiling ladybug wearing a stethoscope and carrying a doctor’s bag, emblazoned on a … more
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A graph from the appendix of the in-depth study by the RI Foundation, produced by Manatt.
What it means to be a barometer of truth
PROVIDENCE – It is two weeks since the Rhode Island Foundation released its study of health care costs conducted by Manatt. But, after the initial burst of interest from news media in Rhode … more
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Dr. Beata Nelken, MD, president and CEO of Jenks Park Pediatrics in Central Falls, receives her "Health Care Hero" award at the PBN event held on April 4, 2024, one of 16 honorees. This week, she will be part of a ribbon-cutting that will reveal a public-private partnership to address homelessness and health care in Central Falls.
Show me the data – and the money!
PROVIDENCE – The conversations over rising health care costs keep getting lost and found and lost again in the growing traffic jam around data trends and costs. The latest salvo fired is a … more
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