Demand for health care jobs rising
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Occupational therapists are in big demand. The 2011 Compensation Data Healthcare survey results found the average base salary for occupational...
Providence a pilot city for Script Your Future
PROVIDENCE – Script Your Future, a national awareness campaign to promote medication adherence, kicked off on May 23, in an effort to improve outcomes...
Steward Health Care emerges as Landmark buyer
PROVIDENCE – In a surprising twist, Steward Health Care System emerged as the buyer of the financially troubled Landmark Medical Center, after Superior Court...
$1.2M in AmeriCorps grants for R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Five Rhode Island AmeriCorps programs have been selected to receive more than $1.2 million in federal funding.
“AmeriCorps is a great federal...
Report: URI, RIC should share nursing facility
WARWICK – The University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College should share a nursing building in the Providence Jewelry District, education officials have...
IPIC awards $110K to Knowledge Economy projects
PROVIDENCE – Seven projects related to growing the local “knowledge economy” have been selected to receive $110,000 in grants.
The projects - ranging from health...
R.I. health insurance enrollment declines
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island commercial health insurance enrollment declined 10 percent in 2010 from 2005, according to the R.I. Office of the Health Insurance...
R.I. gets $5.2M to create health insurance exchange
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has been awarded a $5.2 million grant to establish a health insurance exchange, as mandated by the Affordable Care Act.
Rhode...
89 local companies honored for employee health focus
WARWICK – Eighty-nine local companies were honored by the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island Tuesday...
Treasurer analyzes R.I.’s pension problem
PROVIDENCE – General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo released a report Monday analyzing the historical causes of Rhode Island’s pension problem, estimated between $6.8 billion...
