Natalie Villacorta
Ferguson: Exchange can benefit small business
Christine Ferguson is so enthusiastic about the state’s new health-benefits exchange that she mistook a summit on its offerings co-sponsored by Providence Business News...
PBN Summit explores choice, cost for health plans in coming year
WARWICK – Choice was the word Wednesday morning at the Providence Business News Summit on the Health Benefits Exchange.
Christine Ferguson, executive director of...
Census data shows uninsured population remains the same
The number of uninsured children and people under the age of 65 in Rhode Island has remained steady over the past several years. According...
Landmark acquisition one step closer
The sale of Landmark Medical Center to California-based Prime Healthcare Services moved forward last week with the vote from a subcommittee the Rhode Island...
Pro-Change partners with McGraw-Hill on wellness
A Rhode Island company is now partnering with McGraw-Hill Higher Education to distribute an online program to help college students to “liveWell” — as...
Brown study recommends lead soil testing look deeper
What’s on the surface is often at odds with what’s buried beneath. That might seem pretty obvious, but the R.I. Department of Health does...
Five Questions With: State Rep. Deb Ruggiero
Rhode Island is preparing for the next phase of its gun-safety debate. Created by the General Assembly this past session, the Gun Safety Task...
Exchange affordability to get summit airing
While most large employers don’t intend to change their health-insurance plans with the opening of the health-benefits exchange Oct. 1, small businesses struggling with...
New recovery center to open at R.I. Department of Corrections
CRANSTON – Inmates suffering from substance abuse problems at the R.I. Department of Corrections women’s minimum facility now have additional support to help them...
International burn survivors convention to be held in Providence come October
PROVIDENCE – In a few weeks, hundreds of burn survivors will be walking around downtown, shopping in Providence Place mall, flying into T.F. Green...
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