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SCIENCE OF SUCCESS: Engineer Carl Carlson is seen in the Quality Control Sample Management Lab at Amgen in West Greenwich. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Purposeful engagement around a noble cause

The West Greenwich offices of Amgen Inc. may have a more genuine core of employee satisfaction than other businesses, just based on what it...
MAKING CONNECTIONS: Jill Pfitzenmayer, left, vice president for the Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence at the Rhode Island Foundation, works with Stephanie V. Huckel, senior diversity and inclusion consultant at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, to help connect Blue Cross staffers with nonprofit service opportunities. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. Foundation a matchmaker

As the biggest funder of the state's nonprofits, the Rhode Island Foundation serves an important role – and has done so since 1916. Now,...
A NEW SURGICAL PATH: Raynham-based Medrobotics' flexible robotic surgical device, being demonstrated by mechanical engineer Ian Darisse, left, and biomedical engineer Rich Kuenzler, allows surgeons better access to body parts. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Flexible tool to boost recovery

Medrobotics Corp.'s accomplishment in developing the first flexible robotic device for surgery has been packed with a healthy dose of not only innovation, but...

Frontrunner in employee wellness

The fact that employee health and wellness efforts are worth the investment is not news to Toray Plastics (America) Inc. The Japanese manufacturer, with...
IN THE PROGRAM: With a background in programming,  Freedom National Bank CFO Trad Campbell says that part of banking's appeal for him is developing processes and efficiencies. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL S. GORDON

From the start Campbell made Freedom work

Trad Campbell, chief financial officer of Freedom National Bank in Smithfield and senior vice president and treasurer of Berkshire Financial Services and Lee Bank...
A Healthy Thought:
“Understanding health of employees can have myriad  returns to the organization.”
Laura Walmsley
Preventure, chief business development officer

Practicing what it preaches to its clients

A company that makes workplace wellness its business should reflect those principles in its own office. For Preventure in Coventry, which helps other companies...

Connected wellness efforts boost impact

If you had to find one word to describe South County Hospital Healthcare System’s employee wellness program, that word would be “comprehensive.” The following...
A Healthy Thought:
“Patience and creativity absolutely grow a program.”
Lydia Greene
Vice president of human resources and diversity

For Tufts’ wellness, continuous improvement

Employee health initiatives at Tufts Health Plan – through the company’s WorkingWell program – were not so much a one-time, all-out effort, but more...
MAKING CONNECTIONS: Middle schoolers at Providence’s Nathan Bishop School, from middle left, Alondra Gomes, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jasmin Fields and Lauren Thornton take part in a PASA AfterZone recruitment fair. In charge of the “Conservation Station” part of the program is Becca Buckler, at left. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Building community through its children

Innovation, for Providence After School Alliance, comprises the core of the organization and extends right through all aspects of the group. Its AfterZone Program,...
SOCIALLY SPEAKING: Turino Group President David Giardino, holding his daughter Sienna, funds pizza, wings and beer gatherings every Friday as a way to help the team communicate and stay close to one another. / Courtesy Turino Group

Regular, informal events help keep firm connected

Providing project management and systems consulting is busy work, full of deadlines and unforeseen circumstances. For Turino Group of Providence, which has been serving...
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