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Preliminary apartment plan approved despite lingering concerns

PROVIDENCE – The Providence City Plan Commission Tuesday night approved the preliminary plan for a five-story, mixed-use apartment building at 116 Waterman St., despite...

Five Questions With: Dr. Jeffrey Jacques

Dr. Jeffrey Jacques is the new chief medical officer of Virgin Pulse Inc. Former CVS Health Corp. and Aetna Inc. clinical leader, in his...

University Orthopedics partners with high schools to connect young women to...

EAST PROVIDENCE – University Orthopedics is partnering with Lincoln School on a program aimed at exposing more women to a career in orthopedics surgery...

Two R.I. nonprofits receive grant from Anthony F. Cordeiro Charitable Foundation

PROVIDENCE – Two Rhode Island and three Massachusetts nonprofit organizations have received grants from the Anthony F. Cordeiro Charitable Foundation, for a total of...

Bradley Hospital names new chief nursing officer

EAST PROVIDENCE – Bradley Hospital has appointed Kristen Kichefski as its new chief nursing officer. Kichefski previously served as director of nursing at the Mass....
NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE: Olin Thompson, a ­Jewelry District resident and amateur historian, points to the architectural features on a stone building at 110 Elm St. that was once a foundry and is now leased by Brown University for administrative and medical offices. 
PBN PHOTO/CLAUDIA CHIAPPA

Brown’s land of opportunity: University’s expansion is welcomed but is school...

Olin Thompson’s Jewelry District walking tour begins at the corner of Richmond and Ship streets in Providence, on a plaza covered in stepped, wooden...
EARLY ­SUPPORT: New England Medical Innovation Center co-founder Lydia Shin Schroter, right, leads an international team at the organization’s Providence headquarters. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH ­GRAHAM

NEMIC programs helping draw global startups to Providence, break into U.S....

John Cho was not very familiar with ­Providence a few months ago. As a South Korean entrepreneur in the health care sector, he never...

Department of Human Services to open new Providence location

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Human Services is opening a new office space in Providence this summer. The new office, located at 125 Holden...

I-195 commission to consider another extension for Fane Tower

PROVIDENCE – The long-winded saga of the controversial Fane Tower project might be far from approaching its finish line, as the I-195 Redevelopment District...

Health care leaders, Magaziner address workforce shortages

WARWICK – Drastic workforce shortages are rippling through every area of the health care sector and continuing to impact patient care across the state,...
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