Regional health system operating five specialty hospitals across New England
Care New England operates a five-hospital system (Butler, Women & Infants, Kent, VNA, Providence Center) across Rhode Island with 5,001–10,000 employees. The tech stack is dominated by clinical and administrative tools—Cerner, Epic, PACS, Workday, HubSpot—with Epic adoption currently underway. Hiring velocity is accelerating, heavily skewed toward clinical roles (1,078 of 1,245 open positions), but the active pain-point list reveals operational friction: payer compliance, claim denials, charge-capture accuracy, and insurance verification gaps suggest the organization is wrestling with revenue-cycle efficiency rather than pure clinical scaling.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Pulmonary Critical Care, Director of Nursing, Information Security Director, Nurse Director, Security Director
Care New England Health System is a nonprofit health system headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, operating since 1996. The organization spans five member institutions—Butler Hospital (psychiatry and behavioral health), Women & Infants Hospital (obstetrics and women's health), Kent Hospital (general acute care), VNA of Care New England (home and community health), and The Providence Center (mental health and substance use)—offering cardiology, oncology, primary care, surgery, emergency medicine, and palliative care. Current initiatives include an innovative hospital-at-home program, age-friendly care models, and substance-use programming expansion. The organization actively manages multiple revenue-cycle and operational challenges including bed availability, readmission reduction, and collections turnaround.
Care New England operates Cerner and Epic Systems for EHR and clinical workflows, plus PACS for medical imaging and IDX for practice management. The organization is currently in active Epic adoption across its system.
Primary pain points include payer compliance, reducing claim denials and readmissions, improving charge capture accuracy, verifying patient insurance online, and accelerating collections turnaround.
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