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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.  PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Panel: Health care sector coping by ‘doing balancing acts’

Health Services 11/07/2025

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

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,...

Health Services 10/30/2025

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...

CODAC celebrates opening of integrated health care center

Health Services 05/20/2025

PROVIDENCE –CODAC Behavioral Healthcare celebrated the opening of its new integrated health care center on Monday. CODAC’s new headquarters is located on Royal Little Drive...

COMBATING ADDICTION: CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Chief Financial Officer and Human Resources Director Alisha Bourdeau helped secure grant funding to purchase, and deploy, CODAC’s first mobile medical unit in 2022 to address the ongoing opioid epidemic.  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

CODAC Behavioral Healthcare’s Bourdeau a strong fighter against opioid addiction

Health Services 04/25/2025

2025 C-Suite Awards CAREER ACHIEVER: Alisha Bourdeau CODAC Behavioral Healthcare | Chief financial officer and human resources director WHILE PREPARING for her young daughter to begin preschool...

CODAC Behavioral Health’s Bourdeau, JPS Construction’s Skrajewski among PBN’s C-Suite honorees...

Business Services 04/17/2025

WARWICK – When Alisha Bourdeau began her career at CODAC Behavioral Healthcare 14 years ago, it was with the genuine desire to do meaningful...

GROUP EFFORT: Peter Marino, fourth from the left, CEO and president of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Health Care Summit and Health Care Heroes Awards event on April 2 at the Providence Marriott. Also on the panel are, from left, Dr. Michael Wagner, CEO and president of Care New England Health System; Joseph Trunzo, founding associate director of Bryant University’s School of Health and Behavioral Sciences and a professor of psychology; Gregory Mercurio, senior vice president of radiation oncology at American Shared Hospital Services and CEO of Precision Radiation Oncology of Rhode Island; Linda Hurley, CEO and president of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare; and Dr. Raj Hazarika, chief medical officer for commercial products at Point32Health Services Inc. PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing, moderates.  PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

R.I. health care system needs to be more focused amid federal...

Health Services 04/11/2025

Every day, a patient worried about getting the care they need calls CODAC Behavioral Healthcare. The nonprofit offers psychiatric and mental health services to some...

GREGORY MERCURIO, third from left, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News' Health Care Summit and Health Care Heroes Awards event on Wednesday morning at the Providence Marriott. Mercurio is senior vice president of radiation oncology at American Shared Hospital Services and CEO of Precision Radiation Oncology of Rhode Island. Also on the panel is, from left, Dr. Michael Wagner, CEO and president of Care New England Health System; Joseph Trunzo, founding associate director of Bryant University's School of Health and Behavioral Sciences and a professor of psychology; Peter Marino, CEO and president of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island; Linda Hurley, CEO and president of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare; and Dr. Raj Hazarika, chief medical officer for commercial products at Point32Health. PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing, moderates. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN Health Care Summit: Collaboration needed in light of federal cutbacks

Editor's Choice 04/02/2025

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s already challenged health care system could face even more obstacles depending on federal policy shifts, according to Dr. Michael Wagner,...

CODAC’s Bourdeau named Career Achiever in PBN’s 2025 C-Suite Awards

Financial Services 03/10/2025

PROVIDENCE – Alisha Bourdeau, chief financial officer for CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, has been named the 2025 Career Achiever for Providence Business News’ annual C-Suite...

Brown Medicine’s Caliendo PBN’s Health Care Heroes career achiever

Business Services 02/24/2025

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Angela Caliendo, executive vice chairperson of medicine in Brown Medicine’s division of infectious diseases, has been chosen as the Career Achiever...