The union representing about 100 nursing assistants, maintenance workers and other staff at Bannister Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Providence began a three-day strike on Friday over demands for mandatory minimum staffing levels and pay increases.
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Masking up for Halloween: Rhode Island’s rules for trick-or-treating this year
Trick-or-treaters should travel in small groups, with people they know. And Halloween masks do not count as protection from the virus. Anyone trick-or-treating also must wear a surgical mask or a cloth face covering. And no Halloween parties.
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The vaccine Rhode Island residents don’t have to wait to get
R.I. health officials are urging residents to get their flu shots to head off more hospitalizations and deaths and limit strain on the state’s health care system during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Vaccine trials: Who Lifespan is hoping to recruit for a coronavirus trial and why
Dr. Karen Tashima, the infectious disease physician who will lead the vaccine trial at The Miriam Hospital, talks about the critical search for volunteers.
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URI instructs students in 2 Greek life houses to self-quarantine after several test positive for COVID-19
The University of Rhode Island has instructed 58 students in two on-campus Greek houses to self-quarantine or return home after three students tested positive for COVID-19.
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Lifespan recruiting volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trial
Lifespan is looking for 300 to 400 adults for a clinical trial that it has applied for approval to begin at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.
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She ran the nursing home. Then she ran out of staff to care for the residents.
The Eastgate Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in East Providence was so short-handed that its top administrator, Anna Zambrano, 41, and five of other support staff took turns feeding, bathing and providing other care for residents. One of the residents was Zambrano’s father.
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Not just numbers: Cutting through the noise about R.I. nursing homes
The pandemic has intensified chronic staffing shortages at Rhode Island nursing homes, which are bracing for more coronavirus outbreaks this fall.
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Lifespan and Care New England restart merger talks as pandemic-related losses mount
Lifespan and Care New England have announced plans for a merger that would include creating a nonprofit academic medical center with Brown University.
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URI testing thousands of students for the coronavirus, but not commuters
Just under one-quarter of the university’s roughly 17,000 students arriving on campus will be tested for the coronavirus. URI focused on students living on campus and in group housing who are considered at higher risk.