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HELP ON THE WAY? Nurses Leah Kosteva, foreground, and Mary O’Reilly prep a room at Rhode Island Hospital. The state has reentered the Nurse Licensure Compact, which would allow nurses to work in multiple states without obtaining a new nursing license in each of those states. Joining the compact may assist the recruitment of nurses to Rhode Island. 
COURTESY ­LIFESPAN CORP./WILLIAM MURPHY

R.I. reenters Nurse Licensure Compact to stave off potential hospital staff...

After seeing what the shortage of health care workers did to Rhode Island hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state decided to reenter the...

The best use for pandemic aid?

Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s $13.7 billion fiscal 2025 budget recommends “reprogramming” $51.7 million of the roughly $700 million in unspent State Fiscal Recovery Funds...

Lists: Health Care Educators

Total number of health care students enrolled: 19,183 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make...

Lists: College Technology Programs

Total number of undergraduate technology students: 4,672 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions...

Lists: Physician Group Practices

Total number of local physicians: 2,695 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or...
LOOKING AHEAD: The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce will hold its 2024 Legislative Leadership Luncheon featuring leaders in the R.I. General Assembly on Feb. 15 at the R.I. Convention Center. Pictured is the R.I. Statehouse. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

Editor’s Choice: Providence Chamber to host legislative leadership luncheon

EDITOR’S CHOICE Providence Chamber to host legislative leadership luncheon THE GREATER PROVIDENCE Chamber of Commerce will hold its 2024 Legislative Leadership Luncheon event, hosted...
READY MODE: Kolby Gomes went through pipefitter training through the partnership program operated by General Dynamics Electric Boat and the Community College of Rhode Island as he prepares to start a career with the submarine builder. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Class of their own: More employers partnering with local colleges

Although he had some experience working in construction, Kolby Gomes says learning the ins and outs of pipefitting was like studying a foreign language. But...
PLETHORA OF PALLETS: ­Atlas Barrel and Pallet Inc. President Heather Ross says there are hundreds of different kinds of pallets built at the Burrillville company to meet whatever the customer needs.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: A history of helping with the heavy lifting

(Editor’s note: This is the 17th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

Is this the year for an inspector general?

House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi insists he is keeping an “open mind” on the push from some state lawmakers to create an office of...
FINDING FUNDS: RIHub Managing Director Annette Tonti, third from left, speaks with, from left, Natalie Hogan, chief operating officer at DataRobot; Lindsay Kuhn, founder at Wingspans; and Trisha Ballakur, co-founder and chief technology officer of Pointz, at RIHub in Providence. Tonti says it’s especially difficult for women entrepreneurs to raise funding.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Funding tough to access for women, minorities

Throughout her more than 30 years as a Rhode Island-based entrepreneur and innovator, Annette Tonti has started multiple businesses and raised tens of millions...
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