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Five Questions With: Dr. Micaela Weaver

Health Services 10/30/2022

Dr. Micaela Weaver is a fellowship-trained breast surgeon at Women & Infants Hospital and Kent County Memorial Hospital and a clinical instructor of surgery...

Bierman Autism Centers opens third location in Rhode Island

Health Services 10/30/2022

WARWICK – Bierman Autism Centers opened a location in Warwick last month. The new center, located at 487 Jefferson Blvd., joins two other Bierman locations...

Rhode Island kicks off flu vaccination campaign

Government 10/30/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island kicked off this year’s flu vaccination campaign in October, with health leaders encouraging all Rhode Islanders older than 6 months...

Caregivers at Women & Infants to host informational picket asking hospital...

Health Services 10/30/2022

PROVIDENCE – Unionized caregivers at Women & Infants Hospital will gather for an informational picket on Tuesday to ask the hospital management to address...

MACHINE AIDED: Dr. Daniel Philbin, a cardiac electrophysiologist and director of the arrhythmia service at the Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, in the operating room with Volta Medical Inc.’s VX1 monitor that assists in ablation surgeries.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

AI put to the test during cardiac procedures in R.I.

Health Matters 10/28/2022

A new artificial intelligence technology is helping physicians perform ablations – minimally invasive surgeries used to treat certain heart conditions – more efficiently, and...

ON COURSE: Daniel Costa, Port of Galilee manager for the R.I. Department of Environmental Management, examines the improvements being made along the commercial waterfront at the port.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Galilee port overhaul drawing new business

Focus 10/28/2022

Jon Williams knew the moment he visited the Port of Galilee that this was a “logistically perfect” location for his crab business. The owner of...

Do limits on student renters ease housing dilemma?

Economy 10/28/2022

A proposal to limit the number of student renters per apartment in Providence has sparked fears that such a move would exacerbate the severe...

DR. CLAIRE LEVESQUE, second from right, chief medical officer for commercial products at Point 32Health, the parent company of Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, speaks during one of two panel discussions at PBN's Fall Health Care Summit on Thursday at Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick. Also on the panel are, from left, Dr. Kirsten Anderson, medical director at CVS Health Corp./Aetna; Dr. Louanne Giangreco, senior medical director at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Dr. Peter Hollmann, chief medical officer at Brown Medicine; Dr. Alexis Kearney, consultant medical director for Project Firstline RI, Center for Acute Infectious Disease Epidemiology, R.I. Department of Health; and Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Centr at Brown University's School of Public Health. PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN Summit: R.I.’s health care sector struggling to reverse worker shortage

Health Services 10/27/2022

WARWICK – A workforce shortage continues to plague Rhode Island's health care sector as residents find access to primary care limited while practices struggle...

Eleanor Slater facility receives new license to operate as standalone psychiatric...

Health Services 10/25/2022

CRANSTON – The psychiatric facility within Eleanor Slater Hospital will now be operating as a standalone psychiatric hospital, announced Gov. Daniel J. McKee on...