Tag: behavioral health
Five Questions With: Jillian Roy
Jillian Roy | President, The Providence Center
1. You were recently appointed president of The Providence Center. What made you want to lead the...
Newport Hospital breaks ground early on adolescent behavioral health unit
NEWPORT – Newport Hospital recently announced that it exceeded its $5 million funding goal for the new Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit, or ABHU, allowing...
Five Questions With Kathleen Treloar
At the start of the school year the pediatric behavioral health team at Rhode Island Primary Care Physicians Corporation notices an increase in referrals...
Short-stay unit at Butler to ease burden at ERs
Normally, the auditorium at Butler Hospital in Providence is a gathering spot for conferences and panel discussions on behavioral health issues. But in early...
R.I. Foundation grants $350K to 45 Newport County nonprofits
NEWPORT – The Rhode Island Foundation announced Wednesday that 45 local nonprofits will share $350,000 in grants from the Newport County Fund.
The recipients are...
Outgoing R.I. Foundation leader: State’s economic prospects grim without better education,...
PROVIDENCE – For 15 years, Neil D. Steinberg has helmed Rhode Island’s largest funder of nonprofits.
The 69-year-old former banker also has been at the...
R.I. AG files second challenge against federal behavioral health insurance ruling
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is renewing a multistate effort to challenge limits on insurance coverage for behavioral health and substance...
McKee announces $20M grant program to address housing, hunger, behavioral health
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee along with state officials Thursday announced a new $20 million grant program through the Rhode Island Foundation that...
Blue Cross, Butler partner on behavioral health transition program
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island members who are discharged from Butler Hospital after a behavioral health-related stay can now...
BCBSRI levels behaviorial health copays with primary care, lifts approval rule
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is making behavioral health doctor visit copays the same cost as primary care and...
- Featured Event -
