Health Services

PROVIDENCE — Brown University's School of Public Health researchers report fentanyl test strips are effective in preventing opioid overdoses and that community-based organizations would...

PROVIDENCE – Continuing its slow and steady decline, the Rhode Island seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage points to 3.9 percent in September,...

PROVIDENCE – Delta Dental of Rhode Island has gifted more than $1.5 million to support programs, clinics and professionals working to provide oral health...

PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Department of Health and Women & Infants Hospital will partner in a $3.2 million grant-funded initiative providing prepartum and postpartum...

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. will add four members to its 12-person board of directors, including Mark T. Bertolini, chairman and CEO of Aetna...

Gynecologic oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Lokich joined Women & Infants Hospital’s program in women’s oncology in September, bringing her back to the institution where she...

PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital recently presented Pawtucket resident Julie Ziegelmayer, a nurse on the Antenatal Care Unit, with the DAISY Award, presented...

NEW BEDFORD – Southcoast Health will use Orb Health’s collaborative care platform and care delivery services to extend and expand its services into chronic...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Kerry E. Evers and Sara S. Johnson, co-presidents and CEOs of Pro-Change Behavior Systems Inc., are the 2018 co-recipients of the...

With the Justice Department’s approval of the CVS Health Corp.-Aetna Inc. merger, the nation is embarking on a new road in health care.The potential...