Hospital workers applaud as state leaders announce the completed sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital at a press conference at Roger Williams in Providence on Friday, March 6, 2026. (Photo by Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current)
No one actually said directly that the sale of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital had been completed. They didn’t need to.
The throngs of hospital workers and state officials gathered Friday afternoon in Roger Williams’ first-floor lobby knew exactly what was being implied during the hastily announced press conference: The Centurion Foundation had closed the deal…