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GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE said Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, that Rhode Island will soon require employees at health care facilities to get the COVID-19 vaccine. / AP FILE PHOTO/STEVEN SENNE

McKee mandates vaccines for Rhode Island health care workers

PROVIDENCE – As cases of the delta variant of COVID-19 continue to rise across the country, Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced a new mandate...
TRAINING HUB: Jennifer Menard, left, interim vice president of economic and business development at Bristol Community College, and Laura Douglas, college president, stand outside the future home of the school’s National Offshore Wind Institute on the New Bedford waterfront. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Unchartered training: How does region build workforce for new wind sector?

Toiling hundreds of feet above the open ocean, sometimes amid stormy weather and battering waves, technicians in the offshore wind industry need not only...
The outgoing chief medical officer for Eleanor Slater Hospital, Dr. Brian Daly, wrote a 16-page letter on Saturday, July 31, 2021, against a recently released report commissioned by the R.I. Office of Health and Human Services, disputing its conclusions that the facility was poorly managed, decrying "overt falsehoods" and claiming the authors were biased. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND HOSPITALS

Former Slater CMO blasts ‘biased’ hospital study

PROVIDENCE – He's not leaving quietly. The outgoing chief medical officer for Eleanor Slater Hospital, Dr. Brian Daly, is sounding off against a recently released report...
THE R.I. DEPARTMENT of Health says there have been 65.8 new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 Rhode Island residents in the previous seven days, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines as “substantial transmission.”

R.I. COVID-19 cases increase by 145; no new deaths reported

PROVIDENCE – New confirmed cases of COVID-19 jumped by 145 in Rhode Island, with no new deaths reported, the R.I. Department of Health said...
THE PROVIDENCE-BASED Care New England Health System and Lifespan Corp. hospital system both announced vaccine mandates for employees starting September 2021. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE VIA AP

Lifespan, CNE announce COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees, volunteers

PROVIDENCE – The state's two largest hospital systems on Tuesday said that they will soon be mandating thousands of employees to get a COVID-19...
With the end coming soon for a federal moratorium on evictions – a measure put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic – more than a quarter of Rhode Island renters may be at risk of losing their homes, according to a new study. AP FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL DWYER

Study: More than 25% of R.I. renters at risk of losing...

PROVIDENCE – With the end coming soon for a federal moratorium on evictions – a measure put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic –...

U.S. News rates The Miriam Hospital best in Providence metro

PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital is once again leading the pack in the region, according to new rankings released by U.S. News & World...
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