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Researchers Develop New Scale to Measure Anxiety Outcomes

(posted March 9, 2010)

A new questionnaire and outcomes measurement scale developed by the department of psychiatry (Read more…)

Merger Update

(posted March 9, 2010)

I am writing to provide a few updates on The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital merger process. A tremendous amount of work has taken place over the past several months and a tremendous amount of work lies ahead. Our goal remains the same—creating one academic medical center on two campuses that leverages the best each hospital has to offer. (Read more…)

Patient Safety Award

(posted March 5, 2010)

Patient safety is a priority at The Miriam Hospital. While we pride ourselves on our commitment to safety, we recognize that improvements can always be made, and on November 20, we took steps to make those improvements.
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Quality Improvement Indicators

(posted March 3, 2010)

We have many ways of judging our success as a hospital. The satisfaction of employees and patients, the number of patients we see, the number of surgeries we perform, our Magnet status and the support of our generous donors. These are all excellent ways to measure our many successes, but we also need other, more detailed ways to gauge our improvements. (Read more…)

Samuels Sinclair Dental Center at Rhode Island Hospital Helps “Give Kids A Smile”

(posted March 2, 2010)

The eighth annual national “Give Kids a Smile Day” (GKAS) was celebrated locally with nearly 100 underserved, (Read more…)

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