Monday, November 10, 2025

TOPICS

Home Industries Health Services

Health Services

Brown Surgical Associates adds 7 new surgeons

PROVIDENCE – Brown Surgical Associates, which was part of Brown Physicians Inc. and is now part of Brown Health Medical Group after Brown Physicians...

Southcoast Health donates $112K to New Bedford Community Health’s primary care...

NEW BEDFORD – Leaders of Southcoast Health and New Bedford Community Health recently gathered to celebrate Southcoast’s donation to the NBCH campaign to expand...

The Miriam gains new accreditation for emergency senior care

PROVIDENCE – The Miriam Hospital has been recognized as an advanced provider of emergency care for older adults. The hospital's emergency department recently received Level 2...

R.I. Department of Health launches Rhode Island Responsible cannabis education campaign

PROVIDENCE – With recreational cannabis use nearly doubling among adult Rhode Islanders since 2017, the R.I. Department of Health is launching a public health education...

Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals to remain open through November

PROVIDENCE – Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital have received a temporary lifeline under a new agreement reached by hospital...

As premiums spike, HealthSource RI focuses on medical necessity versus low...

The open enrollment campaign for Rhode Island’s health insurance marketplace usually promotes affordability. Not this year. “In the past we’ve been saying, ‘Health care is more...

Are you concerned that rising health insurance costs will affect staffing...

HealthSource RI recently announced that enrollees in health and dental insurance will on average see monthly costs double by about $111 per person if...

Five Questions With: Dr. Sandra Rao

Dr. Sandra Rao, director of breast imaging at Rhode Island Medical Imaging, spoke recently with Providence Business News about her role and breast imaging...
HEALTHY TALK: Dr. Edward McGookin, third from the left, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit: Shaping the Future of Care on Oct. 30. McGookin is chief of primary care at Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care. With him during the first of two panel discussions are, from left, Victoria Williams, assistant professor of health care administration at Rhode Island College; Dr. Roger Mitty, president and chief operating officer of Care New England Medical Group; and Sen. Pamela Lauria, a nurse practitioner. Moderating is PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN Health Summit panel: Could R.I. fix doctor shortage by looking...

Despite the state’s ongoing shortage of primary care providers, Rhode Island’s largest health system has seen success in recruiting doctors from surrounding states. However,...
IN TROUBLE: Linda Hurley, right, CEO of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, talks about the difficulties experienced by Rhode ­Island health care providers at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit on Oct. 30. With her on the panel are, from left, Martha Wofford, CEO and president of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Dr. Philip Rizzuto, owner of Rizzuto Eyelid and Facial ­Plastic Surgery; Adam Martignetti, a vice president at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England Inc.; and R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Cory King. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Panel: Health care sector coping by ‘doing balancing acts’

Asked to define the state of health care in Rhode Island, those at the forefront of the sector provided a dismal outlook at Providence...
- Featured Event -

Latest News