Tag: Covid-19
U.S. consumer confidence plummets to COVID-era low as trade war stokes...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans' confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COVID-19...
Focused on the mission and the bottom line
2025 C-Suite Awards
NONPROFITS/SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES: Jack Blatchford
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island | Chief financial officer
FOR JACK BLATCHFORD, regularly overseeing Big Brothers Big...
University Orthopedics’ DeRoche goes above and beyond to keep community healthy
2025 C-Suite Awards
ENTERPRISE PRIVATE COMPANY: Michelle DeRoche
University Orthopedics Inc. | Chief operating officer
IF YOU WANT to know a little something about Michelle DeRoche, just...
Library workforce training a vital community lifeline
A $28.5 million modernization of the Providence Public Library has, by all accounts, been a success, despite being completed at the onset of the...
Dr. Angela Caliendo
Health Care Heroes 2025
CAREER ACHIEVER: Dr. Angela Caliendo
Brown Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases executive vice chairperson of medicine
ATTENDING MEDICAL SCHOOL was Dr. Angela Caliendo’s...
Dr. Eugenio Fernandez
Health Care Heroes 2025
ADVANCEMENT IN HEALTH CARE PREVENTION: Dr. Eugenio Fernandez
Asthenis LLC founder
What led you to choose health care as your profession? In grad...
CDC terminates $31M in federal grants to RIDOH
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled about $31 million in grant funding allocated to the R.I. Department of...
International students weigh new risks of pursuing higher education in the...
Since plunging during the COVID-19 pandemic, international student enrollment in the U.S. has been rebounding – a relief to American universities that count on...
On COVID anniversary, protestors renew call for nursing home standards legislation
It’s been five years, but registered nurse Stefania Silvestri can still recall the smell of plastic.
“I placed body after body in a bag, day...
U.S. employers add solid 151K jobs in January, unemployment up to...
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers added solid 151,000 jobs last month, but the outlook is cloudy as President Donald Trump threatens a trade war,...