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Meals on Wheels teams with Point32Health to support expectant mothers at...

Health Services 10/29/2023

PROVIDENCE – Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island and Point32Health Services Inc. are collaborating to increase access to nutritious meals for pregnant women who...

CCA Health R.I. partners with West Bay Community Action to improve...

Health Services 10/29/2023

PROVIDENCE – Commonwealth Care Alliance Rhode Island LLC, doing business as CCA Health Rhode Island, has announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with West Bay Community...

Women & Infants Hospital opens new 21-bed medical/surgical care unit

Health Services 10/27/2023

PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital recently opened a new inpatient service enhancement unit meant to provide patients with comprehensive post-surgical and medical care. Overall,...

TALKING MODE: Lifespan Corp. CEO and President John Fernandez says the hospital group is in negotiations with the city of Providence over its payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement, but he’s unwilling to detail the progress of the talks in the press.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A healing touch? Lifespan’s new CEO aims to cure what ails...

Cover Story 10/27/2023

It’s been almost a year since John Fernandez was named CEO and president of Lifespan Corp., so he’s had plenty of time to develop...

BIO-BONES: Carol Dancer, president of Absorbent Specialty Products LLC in Pawtucket, visits the manufacturing floor, where a fake skeleton, known as Ling Ling, is covered with the company’s Bio-Bone prosthetics, used to fill cadavers for funerals after organs and bones have been donated. PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Meet the Makers: A manufacturer with a super absorbing history

Economy 10/27/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the 14th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

COMFORTABLE SURROUNDINGS: This is a rendering of what the 25-bed short-stay unit at Butler Hospital will look like when completed. The unit is expected to ease the demand on emergency departments at local hospitals that are treating people with behavioral health care needs.  COURTESY BUTLER HOSPITAL

Short-stay unit at Butler to ease burden at ERs

Health Matters 10/27/2023

Normally, the auditorium at Butler Hospital in Providence is a gathering spot for conferences and panel discussions on behavioral health issues. But in early...

RISING UP: Developer Pennrose LLC recently broke ground on a 127-unit apartment building on Parcel 9, located next to Our Lady of The Rosary Church in the I-195 Redevelopment District. This is a rendering of the completed building as planned.  COURTESY THE ARCHITECTURAL TEAM INC.

Long-awaited projects in I-195 district awaited no longer

Economy 10/27/2023

When it comes to new construction, the I-195 Redevelopment District in Providence has been quiet for a while. It’s been about a year since work...

Wickenden St. project raises a question of character

Government 10/27/2023

Does a single building have the power to alter the nature of a neighborhood? Opponents of a proposed 75-unit apartment building on Wickenden Street in...

COLLECTING SCRAPS: Leo Pollock, left, and Nat Harris, co-founders of organic waste collector ReMix Organics Co. in Providence, use these yellow bins to gather food waste, which either goes to farms for compost or is turned into energy such as electricity or a renewable gas.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

ReMix Organics shaking up food waste industry

Entrepreneurship 10/27/2023

After moving to Providence in 2007 from the Netherlands, where he studied environmental policy and sustainable development, Leo Pollock noticed gaps in local food...