Southcoast Health is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It includes the three hospitals that make up Southcoast Hospitals Group — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham; and Southcoast Behavioral Health in Dartmouth, a joint venture with Acadia Healthcare, an international leader in psychiatric and addiction care. Southcoast provides advanced clinical services, such as open heart surgery, angioplasty and heart rhythm services, comprehensive cancer care, neurosurgery, weight loss surgery, orthopedic surgery, advanced imaging services and is the only provider of maternity services in the region. Southcoast is a not-for-profit charitable organization that depends on the support of the community to provide services. More information is available online at www.southcoast.org. Connect to Southcoast through social media at www.southcoast.org/connect/.

Care New England Health System (CNE) and its member institutions—Butler Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital, Kent Hospital, VNA of Care New England, The Providence Center, and Care New England Wellness Center—are trusted organizations fueling the latest advances in medical research, attracting the nation’s top specialty-trained doctors, and honing renowned services and innovative programs to engage in the important discussions people need to have about their health. Backed by a broad range of services—primary care, surgery, cardiovascular care, oncology, psychiatry, behavioral health, newborn pediatrics and the full spectrum of women’s health services—CNE is reinventing the way health care is delivered, partnering with our patients to provide the best care possible while working to create a community of healthier people. To that end, we are committed to a culture of accountability, caring and teamwork. We called it ACT values. These values were not defined by senior management but through a comprehensive process with our employees who identified these values as tangible and important to the cohesiveness of the entire organization. They are embedded into everything we do, working with patients and their families, and with each other. Learn more about the services we provide and the team that’s making it happen at www.carenewengland.org.

Lifespan, Rhode Island's first health system, was founded in 1994 by Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. A comprehensive, integrated, academic health system, Lifespan’s present partners also include RI Hospital’s Hasbro Children's Hospital , Bradley Hospital, and Newport Hospital. A not-for-profit organization, Lifespan is overseen by a board of volunteer community leaders who are guided by its mission to improve the health status of the people it serves in Rhode Island and New England through the provision of customer friendly, geographically accessible and high value services. At Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest health system and private employer, our employees represent a broad spectrum of experience, occupations and cultural backgrounds. Throughout Lifespan’s network of nationally recognized hospitals, you’ll find a commitment to community wellbeing and world-class nursing and health care opportunities. If you share our commitment to community caring, we invite you to choose the hospital and the area that suits you best, whether it’s Providence, named one of the best places to live in the U.S., or beautiful Newport, the “city by the sea.” The American Heart Association has certified the Lifespan health system as a Gold Level Start! Fit-Friendly Company, an award that recognizes employers that go “above and beyond” in promoting their employees’ health. Lifespan is the only Rhode Island company with this certification.

Based in Middletown, Conn., Middlesex Health, a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, includes Middlesex Hospital, a not-for-profit magnet hospital with 275 beds, and two Middlesex Health Cancer Center locations. It also features three emergency departments and two urgent care centers, along with many other programs and services. Middlesex Health’s network of primary care physicians, medical and surgical specialists and other employees work to meet the needs of the Middlesex County and Connecticut shoreline communities. Using innovative technology, Middlesex Health’s vision is to be the clear, first choice for medical care, and its mission is to provide the safest, highest-quality care and best experience possible.

Lawrence + Memorial is a not-for-profit, general, acute care, private hospital that has been serving this region since 1912. We are licensed for 280 beds and provide patient care to medical, surgical, pediatric, rehab, psychiatric, and obstetrical patients. Our staff has more than 2,400 highly skilled professional, technical and support personnel representing virtually every diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative specialty. Specialty areas include: Critical care The region's only inpatient rehab unit The region's only Neonatal Intensive Care Unit CT scanning and magnetic resonance imaging Interventional radiology Nationally recognized cardiac rehabilitation program which supports acute and step-down coronary care units caring for people who have had heart attacks Sleep Center - located at Hilton Garden Inn, Groton Our primary service area includes 10 towns along the Connecticut shoreline between Rhode Island and the Connecticut River and as far inland as Montville. The hospital is an important health care provider for the residents of Fishers Island, New York, the area known as Washington County, Rhode Island, and other parts of eastern Connecticut. Our total service area population is approximately 180,000 people, expanding to 250,000 in the summer.

MinuteClinic is the retail medical clinic of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States. MinuteClinic launched the first retail medical clinics in the United States in 2000 and is the largest provider of retail clinics with more than 1,100 locations in 33 states and the District of Columbia. For more information, visit www.minuteclinic.com. About CVS Health CVS Health is a pharmacy innovation company helping people on their path to better health. Through its approximately 9,600 retail pharmacies, more than 1,100 walk-in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with more than 75 million plan members, a dedicated senior pharmacy care business serving more than one million patients per year, and expanding specialty pharmacy services, the Company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways. This unique integrated model increases access to quality care, delivers better health outcomes and lowers overall health care costs. Find more information about how CVS Health is shaping the future of health at https://www.cvshealth.com Please note: We reserve the right to delete any posts that contain personal health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), Sensitive Personal Information (SPI) or are approaching HIPAA violations. We reserve the right to remove comments that are discriminatory, harassing, bullying, threatening, defamatory, or unlawful.

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Integrated Anesthesia Associates, Inc. is a company based out of 99 East River Drive 5th Floor, East Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Sturdy Health is an integrated health system that offers hospital-based care, emergency and urgent care, primary care and a wide range of specialty care at 26 practice locations throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

For over 75 years Rhode Island Medical Imaging (RIMI) has provided world class care driving innovation, research and educational excellence. RIMI has a network of 18 private state-of-the-art medical diagnostic imaging facilities staffed by over 90 board certified radiologists with broad-based experience and subspecialty training. RIMI radiologists also perform and interpret imaging for eight Rhode Island hospitals and one Massachusetts hospital. RIMI is accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR) including being the first outpatient Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence in Rhode Island. RIMI is an ACR Breast Imaging Center of Excellence with two flagship comprehensive centers in Johnston and East Greenwich. RIMI is also a designated ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center. Most of RIMI’s radiologists are also faculty members at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Teachers, Healers, Innovators University Orthopedics in Providence, Rhode Island, is a regional referral center for patients with back and neck pain, joint pain, sports medicine problems, shoulder pain, hand problems, hip and knee pain, and foot and ankle injury. The orthopedic center includes more than 25 board-certified orthopedic surgeons who are fellowship-trained, the highest level of medical training in the U.S. These specialists are clinical professors on the faculty of Brown University’s medical school as teachers of other new physicians, and leading the way with clinical research of the latest advances in orthopedic surgery and injury prevention. Our affiliation with Brown Alpert Medical School enables new orthopaedic surgeons to learn the most advanced surgical techniques by working hand in hand with the experienced spine surgeons, hand surgeons, joint replacement surgeons, foot & ankle surgeons and sports medicine specialists at University Orthopedics.