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CONTROLLING THE FLOW: CVS Caremark’s Carol DeNale plays a key role in managing cash for the pharmacy retail and benefits-management giant. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Buoyed by good examples, supportive workplace

The only person in control of your success is you. So says Carol DeNale, senior vice president and corporate treasurer of CVS Caremark Corp....
CUTTING THEIR TEETH: Kathryn Shanley, center, has worked in her 30-year career to help young employees, college students and even high school students. She's pictured above with Delta Dental Administrative Services Manager Linda Pichette, left, and Assistant Vice President Ellen Henrix. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

A corporate mentor, Shanley’s door always open

For a college student with little experience in the world of business, career networking with corporate executives can be an intimidating task. Fortunately, at most...
A REAL GEM: Maria Gemma, executive director of the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation, transitioned from her family’s real estate business to the foundation in 2009. / PBN FILE PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Grief fueled Gemma’s passion promoting cancer awareness

When Maria Gemma officially stepped from behind the desk as property manager of her family’s real estate business in 2009, she firmly planted her...
GIVING HOPE: From left: Clínica Esperanza/Hope Clinic Vida Sana Director Lavinia Velazquez, Medical Assistance Program Center case manager Luz Betancur and Together We Insure A Safer Tomorrow Assistant Program Manager Angela Amaral. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Helping others a calling she always answers

Lavinia “Vinnie” Velazquez has spent a career in the human-services field working with the homeless who might have chronic mental-health issues, working with those...
CARE NEW ENGLAND and CharterCARE Health Partners have agreed to pay $1 million and $300,000, respectively, to the city of Providence in a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement, Mayor Angel Taveras announced Friday.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/FRANK MULLIN

Providence reaches agreement with Care New England, CharterCare

PROVIDENCE – Care New England and CharterCare Health Partners have agreed to pay $1 million and $300,000, respectively, to the city of Providence in...

CVS Caremark Charitable Trust opens 2012 grant application process

WOONSOCKET – CVS Caremark Charitable Trust – a private foundation founded by CVS Caremark Corp. – has opened the 2012 grant application process to...
THE RHODE ISLAND Foundation awarded $1.8 million in grants to seven health care organizations at its 2012 Annual Meeting.  Dr. Kathleen Hittner, Lifespan; Providence Mayor Angel Taveras; Rhode Island Foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg and Merrill Thomas, CEO, Providence Community Health Centers were all in attendance. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION/STEW MILNE

R.I. Foundation awards $1.8M from Fund for a Healthy Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has awarded $1.8 million in grants to seven organizations across the state from its Fund for a Healthy...

Kent Hospital, South County Hospital land HealthGrades awards

WARWICK – Kent Hospital landed the 2012 HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award and and South County Hospital landed the advocacy group’s Outstanding Patient Experience...

Health insurance rate increases held in check for 2013

PROVIDENCE – All three of Rhode Island’s health insurers filed rate increase requests for both small and large groups for 2013 well below their...

Firms earn awards for healthy employees

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, together with the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, handed out Worksite Health Awards on...
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