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Healthy behaviors begin at work

UnitedHealthcare of New England wants healthy workforces throughout Rhode Island. So it's focusing its wellness efforts close to home – with its own employees....

Numbers nurture health for Fidelity

Known for helping its customers improve their financial numbers, Fidelity Investments encourages employees to know and improve their health numbers: blood pressure, cholesterol, body-mass...

Building one big heart-healthy nation

American Heart Association-Southern New England has participated in It Is All About Me, the organization's diverse package of online wellness programs, since its 2007...
PUMPED: Arpin Group opened its "green" wellness center about a year ago to support fitness efforts of its team members, including Taylor Arpin, foreground, a fifth-generation member of the family-owned business, and Mark Greene, senior vice president of the GSA division. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘Green’ gym ups participation

Arpin Group Inc., the West Warwick-based moving company, strives to keep its team members focused on adopting healthier lifestyles. With more than a century's...
BUILDING BLOCKS: UnitedHealthcare representative Kavita Patel, right, demonstrates mobile Web app Baby Blocks to Angelia Duran. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

There’s an app for that

(Updated, 5 p.m., Aug. 21) At 6.1 for every 1,000 live births, the infant mortality rate in the United States ranks No. 26 in the...
ON PATROL: Charles Fogarty, left, director of the R.I. Division of Elderly Affairs, speaks with Senior Medicare Patrol Manager Aleatha Dickerson, center, and Senior Medicare Patrol Volunteer Coordinator Gail Amitrano. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

Education key to Medicare fraud prevention

What can a senior citizen who had her toenails trimmed by a podiatrist do when she receives a Medicare billing statement with a charge...
TAKE CARE: Nurse practitioner Joan Walton, standing, and community health worker Anelle Diaz, right, work with Maria  Virella in  Virella's  Woonsocket home. / PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

NHP sees home-care program curbing costs

Remember house calls? Nurse practitioners and community health workers through Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island's Health@Home program are making house calls to some...
FAMILY AFFAIR: Navigant Credit Union CEO Gary Furtado has an "unbelievable commitment to family, to community and to work," according to Marketing Vice President Tim Draper. Furtado is pictured above with Pamela Malafronte, left,  and Deborah Drechnowicz. / COURTESY NAVIGANT

Focus on ‘family’ at Navigant

How many employees have bosses who value family above work? All 260 of Navigant Credit Union's employees do. President and CEO Gary Furtado "has...
MAKING A HOME: Karen A. Santilli, center, is the new CEO at Crossroads Rhode Island. Above, she speaks with co-workers Liz DeJesus, left, direct mail and database manager, and Pat Campellone, special-events and public relations manager. / PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

Santilli drawn to the mission

"There's a big misconception that people are homeless because they did something wrong or … if they would just get a job, they wouldn't...

A global perspective helps define better local results

Deborah M. Thomas, Hasbro Inc.'s executive vice president and chief financial officer, frequently uses "we," rather than "I." She called teamwork essential to address...
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