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TURNAROUND TIME: New Care New England Health System CEO and President Dr. Michael Wagner says he’s focused on improving the financial health of the state’s second-largest health care system.  PBN FILE PHOTO/ DAVID HANSEN

New CNE chief’s focus is on margins, not mergers

Cover Story 04/14/2023

Less than six months into his tenure at Care New England Health System, Dr. Michael Wagner has clear ideas on how he wants to...

MONEY MOVES: Brett Berard, a junior forward for Providence College this past hockey season, made some cash under new rules on student-athletes profiting from their names, images and likenesses. By season’s end, Berard had signed a pro hockey contract and left school.  COURTESY PROVIDENCE COLLEGE

A piece of the action: Local college athletes trying to make a buck after...

Economy 04/14/2023

During the hockey season, Providence College player Brett Berard was a busy man. Not only did he power through a grueling 36-game Division I schedule,...

WORKING TOGETHER: Panelist Dr. Claire Levesque of Point32Health Services Inc., third from left, speaks during the PBN Spring 2023 Health Care Summit and Health Care Heroes Awards on April 6 at the Providence Marriott Downtown. Also on the panel, from left, are Eric Swain of United HealthCare of New England Inc.; Kirsten Hokeness of Bryant University; Peter Marino of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island; Dr. Methodius Tuuli of Women & Infants Hospital; and Martha Wofford of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.  PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Panel: Collaboration needed across the board to resolve health inequities in R.I.

Health Services 04/14/2023

Inequities within the health care system are not only proving to be persistent, but they are getting worse. Panelists at the Providence Business News Spring...

REPEAT CUSTOMER: Joseph Becton, owner of F.I.N.A.O. Tattoo Ink in North Providence, designs an extension for Donna Ruggieri of West Warwick, who said Becton took very good care of her previous tattoo.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s Business: Determined to leave his mark on community

People 04/14/2023

(Editor’s note: This is the 32nd installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...

EASING OUTLOOK: Panelists discuss the official end to the COVID-19 national emergency at PBN’s Spring 2023 Health Care Summit on April 6. On the panel, from left, are Kristine Campagna of the R.I. Department of Health; Jane Hayward of the Rhode Island Foundation’s Long-Term Health Planning Committee; Corey McCarty of CCA Health Rhode Island; and Dr. G. Dean Roye of Rhode Island Hospital.  PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN health summit: A ‘welcome milestone’ in pandemic

Coronavirus 04/14/2023

Dr. G. Dean Roye is a self-declared pessimist, always concerned about everything. But when thinking about the next few months and the state of...

Dr. Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie

Health Services 04/14/2023

Health Care Heroes Awards 2023: Physician Dr. Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie The Miriam Hospital director of the Division of Hospitalist Medicine What led you to choose health care as your...

WANTING A WORLD VIEW: Christian F. Wilwohl, dean of global education at Providence College, says the school’s study abroad program was suspended from spring 2020 until fall 2021, but student participation has been on the increase in recent semesters.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Studying abroad makes rebound after COVID-19

Education 04/14/2023

While her classmates were at the wintry University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus awaiting spring’s arrival, Amy Nickerson, a third-year biology major, was earning college...

Dr. Pablo Rodriguez

Health Services 04/14/2023

Health Care Heroes Awards 2023: Career Achievement Dr. Pablo Rodriguez Nuestra Salud Productions LLC founder and CEO WANTING TO DO THE RIGHT THING became Dr. Pablo...

Jennie Johnson / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Five Questions With: Jennie Johnson

5Q 04/14/2023

Jennie Johnson | Vice president, Community College of Rhode Island Division of Workforce Partnerships 1What are your priorities as the new vice president of CCRI’s Division...

Dr. Jennifer Ritzau

Health Services 04/14/2023

Health Care Heroes Awards 2023: Health Care Administrator Jennifer Ritzau HopeHealth vice president, medical staff What led you to choose health care as your profession? I fell...

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