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FOR THE FIRST EIGHT months of 2017, Rhode Island officials reported a 9 percent decrease in overdose deaths in the state. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/DHIRAJ SINGH

R.I. reports 9% drop in overdose deaths from January – August...

Health Services 12/21/2017

PROVIDENCE — As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report showing the 2016 national number of overdose deaths at 63,600, 21...

DiPalma critical of DCYF 12.5% reimbursement cut for child-housing agencies

Government 12/20/2017

PROVIDENCE — The state Department of Children, Youth and Families’s proposed 12.5 percent rate reduction for state-contracted child residential housing agencies, the result of...

LANDMARK MEDICAL Center in Woonsocket. /PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVID LEVESQUE

RIDOH approves Prime Healthcare’s conversion of Landmark, Rehabilitation Hospital to nonprofits

Health Services 12/19/2017

WOONSOCKET — The R.I. Department of Health has approved Prime Healthcare’s conversion of Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket and Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island...

CARE NEW ENGLAND announced 200 jobs will stay at the Memorial Hospital site after the hospital closes. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND

Care New England to keep 200 jobs, primary care, walk-in clinic...

Health Services 12/18/2017

PAWTUCKET — The United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5082 has withdrawn its Superior Court suit seeking delay of Care New England’s closing of...

CUTTING THE RED RIBBON at the opening of the Youth Trauma Program’s new SMART Room are, from left: Hallie Riggs and Megan Tavares of the Youth Trauma Program; Deidre Donaldson, chief clinical officer, The May Institute; Jennifer Salem-Russo, clinical coordinator, Youth Trauma Program; Julie Gagliardi, vice president of corporate giving and community relations, BayCoast Bank; and Stephanie Sayles, of the Youth Trauma Program. / COURTESY BAYCOAST BANK

BayCoast Bank donates $5K to SMART Therapy Room at FCCF

Health Services 12/18/2017

PROVIDENCE – BayCoast Bank has donated $5,000 to furnish and equip the new Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment, or SMART, Therapy Room at the...

ANNE ACHILLE is manager of the Providence Center’s Adolescent Partial Hospital and Intensive Outpatient Treatment programs. / COURTESY THE PROVIDENCE CENTER

Five Questions With: Ann Achille

Health Services 12/18/2017

Ann Achille, manager of The Providence Center’s Adolescent Partial Hospital and Intensive Outpatient Treatment programs, is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed chemical...

MEMBERS OF THE winning “Copacabana” team at Grace Barker Health include, back row from left: Deb Whitmore, Cheryl Brickach, Liz Costa, Jose Melo, Mary Beth Lescault, Mark Lescault, Clem Rocha, Ethan Lescault and Jayne Jamiel. Front row from left: Joan Alfano, Aline Melo, Karen Borges, Paula Lage, Kelly Borges and Maria Hiotelis. / COURTESY GRACE BARKER HEALTH

Grace Barker Health takes 1st place in 2017 Lip Sync Battle...

Health Services 12/18/2017

CRANSTON – Grace Barker Health, a skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, assisted living and adult day health provider located in Warren, took first prize at...

DR. ROBERT CALDAS, chief medical officer of Southcoast Health, says St. Luke’s, Charlton Memorial and Tobey hospitals have diagnosed more than 40 cases of flu so far and the peak of the season is still ahead. / COURTESY SOUTHCOAST HEALTH

Doctors urge vaccinations as flu season begins

Health Services 12/18/2017

NEW BEDFORD – The annual peak for flu season is still ahead, but already doctors at Southcoast Health are seeing an increase in the...

JEAN MARIE ROCHA, vice president of clinical affairs at the Hospital Association of Rhode Island, was named “Nurse of the Year in a Nontraditional Setting” earlier this year by the Rhode Island State Nurses Association and Rhode Island Monthly. / COURTESY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION OF RHODE ISLAND

Rocha named ‘Nurse of the Year in a Nontraditional Setting’

Health Services 12/18/2017

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island State Nurses Association and Rhode Island Monthly named Jean Marie Rocha “Nurse of the Year in a Nontraditional Setting”...