Rhode Island news and information

A major healthcare workers' union filed suit Thursday seeking to bar the Rhode Island Health Department from carrying out new regulations requiring flu vaccination.
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Landmark Medical Center, Woonsocket, R.I., laid off 31 people on Tuesday. They included members of management, administrative and patient care staffs. Spokesman Bill Fischer said the cuts were needed "to protect the viability of the hospital in the long term."
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The pharmacy linked to the nation's deadly outbreak of meningitis is owned by two brothers-in-law who brought different but complementary skills to the venture: One's a pharmacist, the other a risk-taking businessman who made his mark recycling old computers, fishing rope and mattresses.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Flu vaccines are now mandatory for Rhode Island healthcare workers who have direct contact with patients in healthcare facilities in the state. The policy, proposed by the Rhode Island Department of Public Health, gained approval despite objections from the American...
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Prime Healthcare Services, Ontario, Calif., has received court approval to buy Landmark Medical Center, Woonsocket, R.I.
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Flu vaccines are now mandatory for Rhode Island healthcare workers who have direct contact with patients in healthcare facilities in the state.
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Prime Healthcare Services stepped in as a buyer for the Landmark Medical Center less than one day after Steward Health Care System walked away from a deal it has pursued with the struggling Rhode Island hospital since 2009.
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Prime Healthcare Services, a for-profit health system based in Ontario, Calif., has emerged as a new buyer for Landmark Medical Center, a financially distressed Rhode Island hospital that was set to be acquired by Steward Health Care System.
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Steward Health Care System said it has walked away from a deal to acquire Landmark Medical Center, ending its second bid to buy the financially struggling community hospital in Woonsocket, R.I.
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Steward Health Care System said that it's terminating its agreement to acquire Landmark Medical Center, the Woonsocket, R.I., hospital it had been seeking to buy for the past three years.
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