R.I. advisory panel frowns on emergency medical center proposal

A Texas company that envisions bringing to Rhode Island a chain of freestanding, 24/7 emergency departments — with services nearly comparable to those of traditional hospital EDs — got an unwelcome diagnosis from the first state panel to review its proposal.Despite the strenuous assertion by Neighbors Emergency Center that it had met all of the legal requirements to open one of its medical centers in West Warwick, an advisory panel of the Health Services Council took a [...]