Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services

HealthSource RI enrolls record 42K during latest open period

Economic Activity 04/02/2025

EAST PROVIDENCE – HealthSource RI, the state’s health insurance marketplace, reported its highest-ever open enrollment total Wednesday of 42,695. This year 8,557 residents enrolled in...

Disputed $15.5B R.I. Medicaid contract canceled amid new federal requirements

Economic Activity 02/04/2025

Rhode Island officials have scrapped a tentative, $15.5 billion, five-year contract to manage the state Medicaid program amid new federal rules, Kerri White, a...

U.S. News ranks 7 R.I. nursing homes among best in nation

Economic Activity 11/12/2024

PROVIDENCE – Seven nursing homes in Rhode Island are among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report. The global authority...

CHANGE OF PLANS: Jamie Sanford, left, administrator of Linn Health & Rehabilitation in East Providence, and Richard Gamache, center, Aldersbridge Communities CEO, in May check on Elsie Ann Linde, 89, who had moved into rooms at Linn that have been converted to assisted living. Since then, the nursing home had to close but administrators are still awaiting approval to open a memory and dementia care unit.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Struggling nursing homes mull change in direction to save themselves

Cover Story 06/21/2024

Richard Gamache was armed with a plan to save his nursing home this spring. The question was if he had enough time to put...

Warwick-based Assisted Daily Living bought by Texas company

Health Services 08/10/2023

PROVIDENCE – A Texas-based home health provider with a presence in 17 states has purchased Assisted Daily Living Inc., a 50-person skilled home health...

Taryn Sylvia promoted to director of nursing at Grace Barker Health

Health Services 04/09/2023

WARREN – Grace Barker Health, a skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, assisted living and adult day health provider located in Warren, has promoted Taryn Sylvia...

HopeHealth Visiting Nurse earns Joint Commission accreditation, recertification

Health Services 03/20/2022

LINCOLN – HopeHealth Visiting Nurse has earned accreditation and recertification for its home health care and community-based palliative care program after passing a federal...

PRECHECKS: Dr. Ana Tuya Fulton, right, Care New England Health System executive chief of geriatrics and palliative care, and Ruth Scott, senior director of population health for Integra Community Care Network LLC, review their plans before the hospital-at-home program goes live at Kent Hospital in Warwick. / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM/RYAN PICKERING

Kent offers state’s first ‘hospital-at-home’ acute care program

Coronavirus 12/24/2021

Call it home sweet hospital. Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick recently received a waiver from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and...

COVID-19 stimulus bill could help R.I. hospitals

Government 03/08/2021

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island hospitals could see a $28 million yearly boost in Medicare reimbursements if the U.S. House passes the COVID-19 relief bill...