Lynn Arditi
Health Reporter at The Public's Radio
Health reporter @ThePublicsRadio. 2022 National Fellow @USCAnnenberg. [email protected]. anonymous tips: [email protected]
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5 days ago |
thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi
The union representing more than 2,500 nurses and other health care workers at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital on Tuesday voted to authorize a strike, though the union stopped short of filing the mandatory 10-day strike notice. The United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5098 has been negotiating with the hospitals’ operator, Brown University Health, since their contract expired on March 31.
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6 days ago |
thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi
Temperatures in Rhode Island and southern New England have reached into the 90s and are forecast to climb to around 100 degrees on Tuesday, putting people living or working outdoors and those who are without access to air conditioning at high risk of heat-related health problems.
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6 days ago |
thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi
Temperatures in Rhode Island and southern New England have reached into the 90s and are forecast to climb to around 100 degrees on Tuesday, putting people living or working outdoors and those who are without access to air conditioning at high risk of heat-related health problems.
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3 weeks ago |
thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi
Butler Hospital has raised the stakes in its standoff with unionized employees, announcing plans to hire permanent replacements for about 800 workers in their third week of a strike. But filling all those open positions with permanent hires at the psychiatric hospital on Providence’s East Side will be tough, labor experts said, given hospital staffing shortages and competition for health care workers in neighboring states.
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1 month ago |
thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi
Butler Hospital and union negotiators returned to the bargaining table with federal mediators on Wednesday as the two sides try to end a strike at the psychiatric hospital that has stretched into its second week. The bargaining session, originally scheduled to conclude at 4 p.m., was still in progress as of Wednesday evening.
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