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Does your company provide on-the-job training? Yes: 100% No: 0% Is on-the-job training a requirement for employment for new hires? Yes: 80% No: 20% Depends on the position: 0% No, because...

Lists: Intellectual Property Lawyers

Ranked by total lawyers: 1. Adler Pollock & Sheehan PC | Total lawyers: 66 2. Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP | Total lawyers: 52 3. Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP...

Lists: Veteran Employers

Ranked by local employees: 1. Lifespan Corp. | Total no. of local employees: 17,401 2. CVS Health Corp. | Total no. of local employees: 6,255 3. Community College of Rhode...

Lists: Payroll Companies

Total local employees: 151 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or corrections, call...
NOT SOLD: Lynn Blais, a nurse at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence and president of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals, is skeptical of The Centurion Foundation Inc.’s acquisition plan. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Handle with care: Fate of hospitals in balance as regulators review...

Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. was seen as a hero a decade ago, swooping in to prop up the struggling Roger Williams Medical Center in...
A HEALTHY PLACE: Dr. Pablo Rodriguez has created what he calls a social venture, Nuestra Salud Productions LLC, to provide health information to the Latino community in Rhode Island. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s Business: The doctor’s dishing out doses of health facts to...

(Editor’s note: This is the 45th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
Chris Federico last July became president of the 150-year-old Rhode Island Pharmacists Association for the second time. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Run your own race

Chris Federico | Rhode Island Pharmacists Association president It’s a Friday evening and your family is getting ready to travel across the country for a...
CAREER COACH: Charise Wilson opened Workforce Ready Solutions, an employment coaching business, in Lincoln in 2019.
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Wilson uses her experience carving her own path to help others...

Charise Wilson knows firsthand how valuable mentors are, especially for a job hunter who’s determined to move up but doesn’t know how to get...
GROWTH OPPORTUNITY: Anthony Ramon, owner of Sopha’s Café in Cranston, says a $120,000 loan through the State Small Business Credit Initiative allowed him to purchase the space to open his new culinary venture.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

$61.7M credit initiative slow to deploy money

In today’s economy, Anthony Ramon would have had a tough time securing a mortgage to buy a commercial building on Cranston’s Park Avenue, if...
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