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July 9, 2020
Lifespan understands that visitor restrictions has been a great hardship for both patients and families. Lifespan is actively working to put processes in place to liberalize visitation restrictions,...
June 23, 2020
After an extensive national search, Kenneth E. Wood, D.O., has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest health system. Dr. Wood is a...
June 18, 2020
Lifespan’s newest medical facility – the Lifespan Ambulatory Care Clinic at 180 Corliss St. – is open to the public for services including The Men’s Health Center, , and a Lifespan Pharmacy. Lifespan...
June 18, 2020
Adam Rohrig, Environmental Services and Laundry supervisor, demonstrates Newport Hospital's new disinfecting electrostatic sprayer. Newport Hospital announced today that it has acquired two...
June 2, 2020
Today, Lifespan leadership is issuing the following statement calling for zero tolerance of racial and social injustice: Our nation’s unrest came home to our capital city of Providence last night. So...
May 13, 2020
JAMA Network published earlier today a study co-authored by Rhode Island Hospital Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Control and Brown University Professor of Medicine Leonard A. Mermel,...
May 11, 2020
Access is expanded with new health and safety protocols in place during coronavirus.
May 5, 2020
In an effort to support health care workers throughout Rhode Island and its neighboring communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s two largest health care systems have come together to...
April 22, 2020
On Monday April 20th, Lifespan reported an operating loss of $23.8 million for the month of March related to the COVID-19 crisis. The losses were primarily due to the canceling of elective surgeries...
April 17, 2020
A study led by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital suggests that that one strategy for addressing opioid overdoses and deaths may involve the relationships between people who...