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Rhode Island hospitals make merger move

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney May 14, 2008 10:47 AM

After years of intermittent talks, two Rhode Island hospitals have taken a step closer to merging.

St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island and Roger Williams Medical Center said yesterday they had signed a memorandum of understanding to form an affiliation, the Providence Journal reports today.

St. Joseph Health Services runs Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, a community hospital in North Providence, and St. Joseph Hospital for Specialty Care, which offers rehabilitation, psychiatric care, and primary care in Providence. The hospital typically has about 175 inpatients at Fatima and 70 in Providence, the story said. Roger Williams Medical Center, in Providence, is a teaching hospital affiliated with the Boston University School of Medicine. It an have as many as 170 patients.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.