Amid the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic last June, Daniel J. McKee appeared frustrated.
McKee, then Rhode Island’s lieutenant governor, took the unusual step of...
When Magdalena Andreozzi moved workshops offered by her nonprofit online during the COVID-19 pandemic last summer, she expected some bumps in the transition.
After all,...
Kevin Millonzi has “viral” coverage as part of his business-interruption insurance, but that didn’t save the West Warwick caterer from getting rejected when he...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever altered a lot about the health care system since it first arrived in March 2020 – telemedicine, behavioral health,...
PROVIDENCE – Health insurance companies are actively partnering with community organizations, state agencies and cities to help vaccinate people who are at high risk...
PROVIDENCE – CVS Pharmacy is now selling over-the-counter COVID-19 testing kits, the company announced Monday.
CVS Health Corp. is selling three tests that have received...
PROVIDENCE – Researchers at Butler Hospital have released new data on a procedure that may help treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The study involved 10 patients...
Betsy Canino, chief of clinical services at the PACE Organization of Rhode Island, discusses PACE-RI’s efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines to homebound people in...
WARWICK – A new partnership between Thrive Behavioral Health and CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is offering people in Kent County access to medication-assisted treatment to...
WARWICK – The Shipbuilding and Advanced Manufacturing Institute at the New England Institute of Technology campus in Warwick is offering a machinist training program...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
Improving our K-12 public schools to a level approaching and hopefully surpassing those of Massachusetts and other states consistently recognized for educational excellence is...
PROVIDENCE – Aidan Reilly, a senior at Brown University who helped co-found a nonprofit that addresses food insecurity by repurposing produce surplus, was named...
EAST PROVIDENCE – ONE Neighborhood Builders, a Providence-based community development nonprofit, has purchased a 36-unit apartment complex in East Providence for $3.3 million, the...
Amid the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic last June, Daniel J. McKee appeared frustrated.
McKee, then Rhode Island’s lieutenant governor, took the unusual step of...
When Magdalena Andreozzi moved workshops offered by her nonprofit online during the COVID-19 pandemic last summer, she expected some bumps in the transition.
After all,...
Kevin Millonzi has “viral” coverage as part of his business-interruption insurance, but that didn’t save the West Warwick caterer from getting rejected when he...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
PROVIDENCE – Health insurance companies are actively partnering with community organizations, state agencies and cities to help vaccinate people who are at high risk...
PROVIDENCE – CVS Pharmacy is now selling over-the-counter COVID-19 testing kits, the company announced Monday.
CVS Health Corp. is selling three tests that have received...
PROVIDENCE – Researchers at Butler Hospital have released new data on a procedure that may help treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The study involved 10 patients...
Betsy Canino, chief of clinical services at the PACE Organization of Rhode Island, discusses PACE-RI’s efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines to homebound people in...
WARWICK – A new partnership between Thrive Behavioral Health and CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is offering people in Kent County access to medication-assisted treatment to...
WARWICK – The Shipbuilding and Advanced Manufacturing Institute at the New England Institute of Technology campus in Warwick is offering a machinist training program...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
Improving our K-12 public schools to a level approaching and hopefully surpassing those of Massachusetts and other states consistently recognized for educational excellence is...
PROVIDENCE – Aidan Reilly, a senior at Brown University who helped co-found a nonprofit that addresses food insecurity by repurposing produce surplus, was named...
EAST PROVIDENCE – ONE Neighborhood Builders, a Providence-based community development nonprofit, has purchased a 36-unit apartment complex in East Providence for $3.3 million, the...
SIGNING UP: Kayla Amado, an occupational therapist, is one of the growing number of people applying to the Community College of Rhode Island nursing program. She is in the CCRI lab at the Warwick campus. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
Kayla Amado has seen the horrors of the coronavirus up close as a front-line worker. Amado worked in a Providence-based rehabilitation facility when COVID-19 cases were skyrocketing a year ago, claiming the lives of many patients. It was a challenging time, she said, leading to worries that she’d bring the virus home to her husband…
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We have also seen a marked increase in the number of scholarship applications, notably nursing, but also other health care fields. It is a sign of the times, coupled with a reported nursing shortage the last few years. We strive to assist RI nursing students with their educational expenses and encourage graduates to stay in the state and make a difference.
Paula Iacono, Executive Director
CharterCARE Foundation
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We have also seen a marked increase in the number of scholarship applications, notably nursing, but also other health care fields. It is a sign of the times, coupled with a reported nursing shortage the last few years. We strive to assist RI nursing students with their educational expenses and encourage graduates to stay in the state and make a difference.
Paula Iacono, Executive Director
CharterCARE Foundation