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Wrong Site Surgeries Draw Fine for Rhode Island (RI) Teaching Hospital

Five wrong-site surgeries in two years have provoked a $150,000 fine from the Rhode Island (RI) Department of Health against Rhode Island Hospital. The hospital serves as the training facility for students, interns and residents at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, which makes repeated documented failures to follow safety procedures such as completing a presurgery…

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Norfolk’s Harbor Walk condos, built with Chinese drywall, to get new developer

The beleaguered Harbor Walk condo project in Norfolk’s Ocean View neighborhood is being taken over by new developer Franciscus Co., months after it was revealed that the old developer – Henin Group of Florida – had been using defective Chinese drywall, The Virginian-Pilot reported. Residents began to discover earlier this year that their luxury condominiums…

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