Karen Hazard

Mar 24, 2025 | yahoo.com | Patrick Crowley |Karen Hazard

Dozens of Lifespan employees gather for the announcement of the health system's name change to Brown university Health during a press conference in the lobby of Hasbro Children’s Hospital on June 20, 2024. Rhode Island has nearly 15,000 unionized health care workers. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)The Rhode Island health care system faces a number of significant threats to its viability.