State rejects hospital bid for bone-marrow transplant unit
BOSTON—State regulators are rejecting a bid by Rhode Island Hospital to build a bone-marrow transplant unit to treat cancer patients.
The decision means children who need bone-marrow transplants must continue to travel to Boston hospitals.
It also stymies Rhode Island Hospital's efforts to become a major academic medical center.
The Providence Journal reports the proposal ran into trouble because Roger Williams Medical Center already runs an adults-only transplant unit which has never operated at capacity.
The medical center argued it would be wasteful to build a new unit when one already exists, underused, just three miles away.
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Information from: The Providence Journal, http://www.projo.com/
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