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Five Questions With: Taryn Sylvia

Taryn Sylvia is the new director of nursing at Grace Barker Health, a skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, assisted living and adult day health provider...

Kent names new senior VP for patient care services and chief...

WARWICK – Sherri L. Sprague is the new senior vice president for patient care services and chief nursing officer at Kent County Memorial Hospital. Sprague,...

Sturdy Memorial Hospital, its urgent care facilities and medical practices unified...

ATTLEBORO – Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro is rebranding. The hospital, its urgent care facilities and its 26 medical practices are being unified under...
BETTER OPTIONS: After discovering food allergies in her dogs and wanting better options for them, Christine Karouz opened Power Pup Treats LLC, a dog bakery business in East Providence.
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Karouz finds calling baking healthy treats for dogs

For years, Christine Karouz did not know her dogs had food allergies. The proud owner of Zeus and Foxy, two bulldog and pit bull...
WAVE OF GROWTH: Since buying Allegra, a full-service printing, mailing and marketing company in Providence, in 2017, Bud and Karen McCann have quadrupled the revenue and tripled the size of the staff of the more than 50-year-old shop. 
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Pumping up a print shop

Bud and Karen McCann bought Allegra on ­­­Valentine’s Day in 2017. The date is a fun coincidence for the long-married couple, who were looking for...

Three R.I. hospitals earn ‘A’ grade, 4 others get ‘B’ from...

PROVIDENCE – Three hospitals in Rhode Island have earned an “A” grade, while four others received a “B” and two more a “C” from...

Union asks state to stop closure of Charlesgate Nursing Center

PROVIDENCE – Unionized caregivers at Charlesgate Nursing Center in Providence held a press conference on May 4 to urge the state to intervene in...

Five Questions With: Dr. Julia Katarincic and Anabel Schiller

University Orthopedics recently partnered with Lincoln School on a program aimed at exposing more women to a career in orthopedics surgery and reducing gender...

Brown Surgical Associates hires 2 more surgeons

PROVIDENCE – Brown Surgical Associates announced it has added two new surgeons to its pediatric surgery team. Dr. Artur Chernoguz and Dr. Carl-Christian Jackson are...

Construction at Metacomet development to start this summer

EAST PROVIDENCE – Plans for the redevelopment of the former Metacomet Golf Club are moving forward. Developer Marshall Properties Inc. has partnered with Northeast Golf...
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