As the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 trends downward in Rhode Island, the state’s largest hospital group has announced plans to lift restrictions on elective surgeries.
Lifespan suspended those procedures for the last six weeks and only performed emergency surgeries. Brown Surgical Associates’ Dr. William Cioffi, the surgeon-in-chief at Rhode Island and The Miriam Hospitals, said the hospitals will now start performing semi-urgent procedures.
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