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“FOUR LEGS TO STAND ON” arrives at the Jane Pickens Theater May 9 as part of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare’s celebration of 40 years of service in Newport County. The play’s showing coincides with the launch of the Newport Hope Recovery Center nearby. / COURTESY CODAC

CODAC, Parent Support Network to open Newport Hope Recovery Center

NEWPORT – CODAC Behavioral Healthcare and the Parent Support Network of Rhode Island will celebrate the opening of the Newport Hope Recovery Center at...
SOUTH COUNTY HEALTH SYSTEM’S board of trustees has elected Dennis F. Lynch as its chairman. / COURTESY SOUTH COUNTY HEALTH SYSTEM

Lynch elected chairman of South County Health System’s board of trustees

PROVIDENCE – Dennis F. Lynch was elected chairman of the South County Health System’s board of trustees at its May 1 meeting. Lynch has served...
PARTNERS HEALTHCARE is holding “very preliminary” exploratory merger talks with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. / COURTESY PARTNERS HEALTHCARE

Partners HealthCare, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, in early merger talks

PROVIDENCE — Partners HealthCare of Massachusetts is holding “very preliminary” exploratory merger talks with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care about how the two companies could...
PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS has named 52 honorees in its 2018 Best Places To Work competition.

PBN names 2018 Best Places To Work honorees

PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has announced the awardees of its 2018 edition of the Best Places To Work competition. Fifty-two companies were judged...
UNITED WAY of Rhode Island 211 operators, from left, Tina Donate and Aura Sanabia field calls at their Providence call center. / COURTESY UWRI

CVS Health Foundation grants $56K for 211 call center substance use...

PROVIDENCE — The United Way’s 211 call center will soon be able to bring in Anchor Recovery peer counselors on opioid and other substance...
PEOPLE IN RHODE ISLAND are more likely to report unmet need for behavioral health care services than in any other New England state, according to data from the Truven Health Analytics report commissioned by the state in 2014. / COURTESY TRUVEN HEALTH ANALYTICS

BCBSRI levels behaviorial health copays with primary care, lifts approval rule

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is making behavioral health doctor visit copays the same cost as primary care and...
INFLUENZA IS NO longer widespread in Rhode Island, the R.I. Department of Health reports. / COURTESY RIDOH

RIDOH: Flu no longer widespread in Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has announced flu is no longer widespread in the state, relieving unvaccinated medical personnel from the requirement...
DR. JASON RAFFERTY is trained in pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. / COURTESY NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND COLLABORATIVE

Five Questions With: Dr. Jason Rafferty

Dr. Jason Rafferty, an attending psychiatrist and pediatrician at Thundermist Health Center, Hasbro Children’s Hospital and Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, provides comprehensive behavioral health...
ARTHUR TAYLOR, director of nursing at the Comprehensive Community Action Program in Cranston, has been named the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Childhood Immunization Champion for Rhode Island. / COURTESY CCAP

Taylor named R.I. CDC Child Immunization Champion

CRANSTON – Arthur Taylor, a registered nurse and director of nursing for the Comprehensive Community Action Program, has been awarded the Centers for Disease Control...
DR. PENELOPE DENNEHY, director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases division at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, received the 2017 Hamolsky Outstanding Physician Award from Rhode Island Hospital medical staff. / COURTESY HASBRO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Dennehy receives 2017 Hamolsky Outstanding Physician Award

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Penelope Dennehy, director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases division at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, can count the respect of her colleagues a certainty...
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