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PBN unveils 2026 Book of Lists

PROVIDENCE – Representatives from a cross section of Rhode Island’s business and nonprofit sectors spent Thursday evening at the Graduate by Hilton Providence networking...

Rhode Island Community Food Bank delays release of its annual hunger...

In any other year, the data that informs an annual report released every Thanksgiving by the Rhode Island Community Food Bank would tell the...
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BankNewport awarded for worksite health programs

RYAN CAMARA is vice president and human resources manager for BankNewport, which was recently recognized with an Exemplary Worksite Health Award from Blue Cross...

Are you concerned that rising health insurance costs will affect staffing...

HealthSource RI recently announced that enrollees in health and dental insurance will on average see monthly costs double by about $111 per person if...
IN TROUBLE: Linda Hurley, right, CEO of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, talks about the difficulties experienced by Rhode ­Island health care providers at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit on Oct. 30. With her on the panel are, from left, Martha Wofford, CEO and president of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island; Dr. Philip Rizzuto, owner of Rizzuto Eyelid and Facial ­Plastic Surgery; Adam Martignetti, a vice president at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England Inc.; and R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Cory King. 
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Panel: Health care sector coping by ‘doing balancing acts’

Asked to define the state of health care in Rhode Island, those at the forefront of the sector provided a dismal outlook at Providence...

HealthSource RI enrollees could see monthly insurance premiums double next year

PROVIDENCE – Enrollees in health and dental insurance through HealthSource RI will on average see monthly costs double by about $111 per person if...

Are you confident state providers, insurers and political leaders can ease...

Providers and some state leaders have been sounding the alarm for more than a year that the state health care system is in crisis. Incremental...
DR. EDWARD MCGOOKIN, third from the left, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Fall Health Care Summit: Shaping the Future of Care on Thursday. McGookin is chief of primary care at Brown Health Medical Group Primary Care. With him during the first of two panel discussions are, from left, Victoria Williams, assistant professor of health care administration at Rhode Island College; Dr. Roger Mitty, president and chief operating officer of Care New England Medical Group; and Sen. Pamela Lauria, a nurse practitioner. Moderating is PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

‘We are in crisis’: PBN summit highlights glaring gaps in affordable,...

WARWICK – Precarious and vulnerable.  That’s how Dr. Edward McGookin would describe the state of Rhode Island’s health care.  Two safety net hospitals – Roger Williams Medical Center and...

Blue Cross partners with Daymark Health to support members with cancer

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has partnered with Daymark Health to offer the company’s care to more than 2,500...

People’s Credit Union donates $3K to support essentials for future Summer...

PROVIDENCE – People’s Credit Union teamed up with Crossroads Rhode Island on Sept. 12 to host a pop-up shop, providing household essentials to future...
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