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THE SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY Land Trust's new food hub at 404 Broad St. in Providence, slated to open this summer, will house businesses to address food inequality in the community. / PBN PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

Community support helps Land Trust’s new food hub grow

Business Services 05/05/2022

PROVIDENCE – When the Southside Community Land Trust over the last several years needed to have harvested crops cleaned to be prepared as healthy...

PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS has announced 69 honorees for its 2022 Best Places to Work Awards program.

PBN announces 2022 Best Places to Work honorees

Business Services 04/29/2022

PROVIDENCE – Sixty-nine honorees have been named by Providence Business News for its 2022 Best Places to Work Awards program. Each of the companies and...

RECOVERY MODE: R.I. Department of Health Interim Director Dr. James McDonald, left, talks about the health care industry’s workforce woes at the PBN Health Care Summit on April 6. Also on the panel are, from left, Dr. Claire Levesque, chief medical officer for commercial products at Point32Health; Dr. Raymond O. Powrie, Care New England Health System executive chief of medicine; Dr. Matt Collins, chief medical officer and executive vice president at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; and Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, Lifespan Corp. CEO and president. PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing, moderates. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Babineau: ‘It is going to take us years to rebuild’

Coronavirus 04/15/2022

The COVID-19 pandemic left Rhode Island’s health care industry a shell of its former self, with a staffing crisis that continues to have massive...

R.I. health director: COVID herd immunity ‘[not] achievable’ in U.S.

Government 04/06/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s top public health official on Wednesday said the nation will likely never reach herd immunity from COVID-19, but it’s time...

PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS has named 16 honorees for its 2022 C-Suite Awards program.

Lifespan’s Duquette named 2022 Career Achiever for PBN’s C-Suite Awards program

Capital Goods 03/25/2022

PROVIDENCE – Cathy Duquette, executive vice president of quality and safety and chief nursing executive for Lifespan Corp., has been named the 2022 Career...

PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS announced 22 honorees for its 2021 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards program.

PBN announces 2021 Healthiest Employers honorees

PBN Award Winners 06/30/2021

PROVIDENCE – Twenty-two organizations have been named as honorees in Providence Business News 2021 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards program, which is now...

Commonwealth Care Alliance names McCarty R.I. general manager

Health Services 05/05/2021

PROVIDENCE – A nationally recognized health care nonprofit based in Massachusetts is expanding for the first time outside of the commonwealth, and not only...

Health insurers partner with cities, organizations to increase vaccinations

Coronavirus 04/19/2021

PROVIDENCE – Health insurance companies are actively partnering with community organizations, state agencies and cities to help vaccinate people who are at high risk...

PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS announced its honorees for the 2021 Business Women Awards program.

Seagrave-Whittle heads PBN 2021 Business Women honorees

PBN Award Winners 04/16/2021

PROVIDENCE – Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island Chief Marketing Officer Brenda Seagrave-Whittle has been selected by Providence Business News as this year's Career...