Rob Borkowski
Koch Eye Associates opens family eye care center in Warwick
WARWICK – Koch Eye Associates continued its 40-year history of growth in Warwick with a ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony for its new, 6,000-square-foot...
Workers picket Pawtucket Genesis Nursing Home, call for higher wage
PAWTUCKET – About 198 nursing home caregivers picketed in front of Pawtucket Genesis Nursing Home, Hopkins Manor Nursing Home in North Providence and Charlesgate...
URI dubs pharmacy building Paramaz Avedisian ’54 Hall in honor of...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island community dedicated its Kingston campus College of Pharmacy building to alumnus Paramaz Avedisian, ’54, whose lifetime...
Providence launches PVD Healthworks to boost health care, social assistance workforce
PROVIDENCE – Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and the city’s Economic Opportunity Director Brian Hull met with state officials and health industry representatives Friday...
First Healing Arts fundraiser generates more than financial support
Private donors have long fueled the bulk of the Rhode Island Hospital Healing Arts programs’ efforts to ease hospital and emergency room visits through...
Coastal Medical support system eases workload, attracts physicians
Rhode Island is a difficult market for recruiting primary care doctors, but Providence-based Coastal Medical, which added 10 new physicians Oct. 2, says its...
OHIC expects double-digit health insurance rate increases
PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner reported that preliminary estimates of individual market health insurance rates see insurance premiums increasing between...
CNE ends negotiations to sell Memorial, closing hospital’s emergency, inpatient services
PAWTUCKET - Care New England's board of directors terminated negotiations with Prime Healthcare Foundation to sell Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island Monday night and began...
R.I. Division of Elderly Affairs offers free Medicare advice as enrollment...
PROVIDENCE — If you’re not sure what to do now that Medicare Open Enrollment is under way, the R.I. Division of Elderly Affairs has...
OHIC works to limit health insurance subsidy cut’s effect on insured
PROVIDENCE — When President Donald Trump signed an executive order canceling Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies to 17,000 Rhode Islanders who depend on the program to afford...


















