Jacquelyn Voghel
East Bay Community Action Program opens health center for students, academic staff
EAST PROVIDENCE – A partnership between city and school officials and the East Bay Community Action Program recently established a new community health center for students and academic staff.
The East Bay...
PACE-RI earns Pioneer Navigator distinction amid nationwide system
EAST PROVIDENCE – The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, or PACE, health care and insurance system, which includes more than 194 programs throughout the U.S.,...
State, regional health officials urge continued vaccination amid federal guideline change
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health and Northeast Public Health Collaborative last week released a statement dismissing a change to federal guidelines surrounding vaccines and...
Centurion: State negotiations with Prime Health interfere with ability to close...
PROVIDENCE – A second suitor's interest in the financially precarious Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital has stoked new friction...
Leapfrog: 4 of 9 R.I. acute care hospitals earn an ‘A’...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that assigns hospital safety ratings, has given an “A” grade to four out of nine acute...
Meet the Makers: An ice factory that refuses to melt away
(Editor’s note: This is the 39th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
Meet the Makers: Warren shipyard has navigated the waters of boat-building...
Sisters Marcia and Julie Blount grew up watching their father, Luther Blount, sketch boat designs on napkins. Those sketches became real vessels at Blount...
Meet the Makers: Determination pays off for pet apparel designer, with...
When Alice Nichols launched her pet apparel company, Up Country, she knew her creatively designed collars would sell. More than 40 years later, that...
Blackstone Valley Community Health Care reopens primary care office
PAWTUCKET – In a health care landscape marked by a dire shortage of primary care providers and facilities closing, or at risk of closure,...
Roger Williams, Our Lady of Fatima hospitals to remain open through...
PROVIDENCE – An agreement to keep Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital open through November has been extended to the...
