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Commonwealth Care Alliance opens Rhode Island headquarters

PROVIDENCE - Commonwealth Care Alliance officially opened its Health Rhode Island headquarters on Thursday morning, the organization’s first office in the state, located in...

Providence City Plan Commission approves 44-unit affordable housing proposal

PROVIDENCE – The Providence City Plan Commission approved the preliminary plan for a five-story building of 44 affordable apartments in Upper South Providence on...

Care New England reports quarterly $26.5M net loss

PROVIDENCE – Care New England Health System reported a $26.5 million net loss in the third quarter ending on June 30, as the hospital...

Blue Cross certifies 21 new health care sites as LGBTQ Safe...

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has designated 21 new health care sites as LGBTQ Safe Zones, a certification that...

CVS Health appoints VUMC CEO to serve on board of directors

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. has appointed Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser, CEO and president of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to its board of directors. A...

Report: Providence ranks 58th most-challenging city for people with asthma

PROVIDENCE – The city was ranked the 58th most-challenging city to live in the United States if you suffer from asthma, according to a...

Rhode Island to start administering updated COVID-19 booster shot

PROVIDENCE – A new and more comprehensive booster shot for COVID-19 is now available to Rhode Islanders, the R.I. Department of Health recently announced. The...
SIGN OF THE TIMES: Gary Wallace is the owner of Hall of GraFX, a printing shop in Providence that has produced campaign materials for candidates, such as this banner for Gonzalo Cuervo, who finished second in the Providence mayoral primary on Sept. 13.
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THE CAMPAIGN ECONOMY: Election season provides stimulus for many businesses

Forget summer vacation, Gary Wallace hasn’t even had a day off in the last six weeks. That’s what happens when you own a print shop...
BABY STEPS: Maey Petrie, left, director of programs and business developent at New England Medical Innovation Center, and Robert Cooper, SmölTap CEO, with the product designed to hold infants still while undergoing a spinal tap. It will launch this fall. 
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Pediatrics pain point may be soothed by design solution

When Dr. Ravi D’Cruz asked his former mentor Dr. Brian Alverson if he could think of any problems in health care that could be...
DIFFICULT DECISION: Yifei “Jerry” Hu has made the tough choice to remain in the U.S. and continue studying cognitive science at Brown University rather than return home to China, where strict COVID-19 policies and lockdowns are still in effect.
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On some campuses, Chinese students are fewer

When Yifei “Jerry” Hu arrived at Brown University last year, he knew he wasn’t going to return home – at least not for a...
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