A remodeled Rite Aid Wellness Store at 1080 Bald Hill Road held its grand opening event on July 14, part of national effort by national drug store chain to promote wellness services and products more

PROVIDENCE – Brown University is launching its first executive-education program, an executive master of health care leadership, to begin in August 2013. more

PAWTUCKET – Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, in the midst of talks with Care New England to discuss a potential merger, has named two new members to its business team. Thomas Gough has been appointed senior vice president of business development, administration and practice operations. more

PROVIDENCE – On July 8, Coastal Medical Inc., Rhode Island’s largest primary-care group practice, initiated seven-day-a-week, 365-days-a-year coverage for its 105,000 patients. more

PROVIDENCE – Elena Tenenbaum, a researcher with Women & Infants Hospitals’ Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, was awarded a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in translational autism research, to help turn scientific discoveries into clinical treatments. more

FOXBORO, Mass. – Gillette Stadium is now a fully smoke-free facility. more

WARWICK – Kent Hospital announced on July 9 that it will serve as the corporate sponsor of a series of road races and walks during the next two years. more

In honor of its 100th anniversary celebration, Liberty Mutual Insurance has donated $10,000 to Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island. more

Officials in the Obama administration confidently predict that few, if any, states will opt out of the expansion of Medicaid that health care reform allows. Opponents say most of them will. more

R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller issued a notice of new proposed conditions relating to the rate factor decision for the 2012 rate requests by Rhode Island’s commercial health insurers. more