Tag: Codac Inc.
Health care panel: Team approach needed to make system fixes
It doesn’t take a clinical degree to diagnose why Rhode Island has difficulty retaining health care providers who completed their education in the Ocean...
PBN health care summit: Multifaceted approach needed to repair R.I.’s ailing...
PROVIDENCE – When primary care providers choose to practice in Massachusetts or Connecticut over Rhode Island, it’s not about luxury.
Across the board, the Ocean...
New substance withdrawal program proves to be success story
After Mercedes Faust was arrested for driving under the influence and spent a day in the psychiatric unit at a local hospital nearly a...
PBN summit: Does tech such as AI need more oversight in...
A device is in the works that can monitor when a patient administered their asthma inhaler, whether they used it at the correct time...
‘Overdose hot spot’ to get R.I.’s 1st safe injection center
In Providence’s West End, behavioral health care agency CODAC Inc. serves one of the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods in the opioid crisis. From 2016 to...
First R.I. overdose prevention center slated for 2024 opening
PROVIDENCE – Almost two years after Rhode Island became the first state in the country to legalize overdose prevention centers, plans to establish the...
CODAC mobile clinic continues to operate despite cease-and-desist order from city
WOONSOCKET – The future of the mobile clinic that has been operating on the property of the nonprofit Community Care Alliance in Woonsocket since...
Smithfield to hold parents’ forum on substance use
SMITHFIELD – A panel of substance use experts will be on hand Dec. 15 at a forum aimed at parents who want to learn...
Pandemic raises workload for mental health agencies
During the first week of March at the BH Link call center in East Providence, about 3.5% of the roughly 40 calls that came...
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