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PBN Award Winners

ALL TOGETHER NOW: Coastal Medical’s team approach brings together a physician, an RN, a pharmacy practice resident and a medical assistant to manage a patients care. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

Forging bonds to deliver better care, cost savings

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, the state’s largest health insurer with more than 600,000 members, signed a two-year, shared-savings contract in...
MAKING CONNECTIONS: Middle schoolers at Providence’s Nathan Bishop School, from middle left, Alondra Gomes, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jasmin Fields and Lauren Thornton take part in a PASA AfterZone recruitment fair. In charge of the “Conservation Station” part of the program is Becca Buckler, at left. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Building community through its children

Innovation, for Providence After School Alliance, comprises the core of the organization and extends right through all aspects of the group. Its AfterZone Program,...
TEAM EFFORT: Using a prototype designed by a metallurgical engineer Howard Schachter, in black shirt, Petro-Cycle Solutions looks to make gas and oil drilling more sustainable. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Dad helps firm make environmental inroads

Howard Schachter is a water guy. For 50 years, he worked as a metallurgical engineer concentrating on recycling wastewater and solid waste, then...

Social networking big factor in firm’s success

Gurnet Consulting, a project- management-solutions firm that enables clients to deliver on successful IT initiatives, does not have a sales or marketing arm. Instead,...

Location no barrier to getting the best hires

The secret behind the rapid growth of Drupal Connect, a Web-development firm headquartered in Newport, is “the willingness to hire the best talent, the...

Relationships spur growth after industry setbacks

Robert E. Nickerson, president of commercial real estate firm Stone Tower Properties, appreciates the designation of one of the fastest-growing companies in Rhode Island,...

Matching people with positions, done right

The staff-recruitment agency – based in Providence but serving all of southern New England – is one of the fastest-growing companies in Rhode Island....
NICE VIEW: Peregrine Property Management principals Jeffrey P. Spratt, left, and Brendan C. Kane sit atop the tallest building at Rumford Center in East Providence, one of the many properties the firm manages. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Market niche, talent driving firms growth

If you were to ask Jeffrey P. Spratt of Peregrine Property Management to describe his ideal business climate, today’s economy would not be on...

Flexibility wins the day for design-build firm

Partners Peter Crump and Matt Dempsey have watched their company, Site Specific LLC, grow by leaps and bounds since they first launched the venture...

Reputation, planning help this IT firm soar

Focused on information technology staffing, both permanent and contract, Bridge Technical Solutions is among the Top 15 Fastest-Growing Companies in the state. James Wright...
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