Claudia Chiappa
Smiley announces his administration’s department directors
PROVIDENCE – Mayor-elect Brett Smiley has announced several more key appointments to his new administration, which will begin work when he takes office on...
PBN’s most-read stories of 2022
From developments with the potential to reshape the landscape of Providence and a steady stream of million-dollar home sales across Rhode Island, to ongoing...
Lifespan chief financial officer leaves company amid financial losses
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. Chief Financial Officer David Kirshner has left the company after a little over a year in the role.
Kirshner left the...
R.I. Department of State reaches settlement with voting machine vendor
PROVIDENCE - The R.I. Department of State has reached a settlement with the state’s voting machine vendor over a series of programming errors that...
Rhode Island Community Food Bank receives $100K grant from Point32Health
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Community Food Bank received a $100,000 grant from the Point32Health Foundation to increase its capacity in response to a growing...
Five Questions With: Suzan Menihan
Johnson & Wales University announced the launch of a new Bachelor of Science in nursing degree earlier this year, an accelerated, four-semester program that...
Bergmann appointed new VP and chief people officer at Blue Cross
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has appointed Anastasia Bergmann as vice president and chief people officer.
A Massachusetts resident, Bergmann...
Pareek appointed chief of urology for Lifespan hospitals
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. has appointed Dr. Gyan Pareek as chief of urology in the department of surgery at Lifespan hospitals and president of...
Five Questions With: Dr. Joseph Renzulli, Dr. Sanjay Aneja and Dr....
Westerly Hospital recently launched its first multidisciplinary genitourinary oncology clinic, which brings together the expertise of urologic oncology, medical oncology and radiation oncology to...
In many ways, these tattoos restore what’s lost to breast cancer
For the first year after her double mastectomy, all Debra Turilli could think about was how happy she was to be alive.
She had been...


















