Caritas looks to buy RI hospital

System awaiting OK on its own sale. Robert Weisman, Boston Globe, August 28, 2010 Caritas Christi Health Care, the Boston hospital system that is awaiting state approval of its agreement to be purchased by a New York buyout firm, wants to move forward with an acquisition of its own - the first of what could be many deals under a new owner. Reaching across state lines, Caritas asked a Rhode Island judge yesterday to allow it to buy Landmark Medical Center, a 214-bed community hospital in Woonsocket, RI, for an undisclosed sum. Caritas, a chain of six Catholic hospitals in eastern Massachusetts, hopes to use the financial muscle of its proposed acquirer ... Caritas