It will take a massive effort, with all hands-on-deck, to address the Rhode Island primary care shortage.
© 2026 by Michael Fine
Some friends and colleagues from Brown University Health are arguing that Rhode Island doesn’t need a new medical school at URI – and that such a new medical school won’t help address Rhode Island’s primary care physician supply crisis.
One part of that is true. If you dropped a medical school from outer space into Rhode Island, that by itself won’t change the number of primary care physicians in Rhode Island.
But my colleagues from Brown University Health, which just noodled around with the idea of killing off the Birthing Center of Newport Hospital, are missing the point, which is sometimes what folks who run virtual monopolies sometimes do, as they hold up the rest of us for more and more money.
Click here to read the rest of this article, originally published on What's Up Newport on April 3, 2026.
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