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BHDDH caseworkers raise concerns about high workloads, low pay

PROVIDENCE – Workers at the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals are raising concerns about what they call “unmanageable” workloads and...

Cannabis use is rising among R.I. middle schoolers; high school alcohol...

Yesterday’s vices have lost some favor among Rhode Island’s teens and preteens, a new survey suggests.  And yet cannabis seems to have found a bigger...
REACHING HIGHER: In just three years with Reach Consulting LLC, Anne Geertman rose through the ranks from project manager to become the company’s managing director. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Anne Geertman

PBN Leaders & Achievers 2024 Awards Anne Geertman | Reach Consulting LLC | Managing director WHAT DOES IT TAKE for a company to succeed and...

McKee calls for salary flexibility to help fill state health director...

Dr. Jim McDonald’s skillful explanations of complicated public health topics during the COVID-19 pandemic – showing how the virus spreads with a jar of...
A. Kathryn Power

It’s time to take control where we can

We knew from the start that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to do more than make people sick. Just days after our country’s first...
OVER THE FIRST seven months of 2020, there has been a sharp increase in accidental drug overdose deaths in Rhode Island, according to new data from the R.I. Department of Health's Office of the State Medical Examiner. / COURTESY CAPITAL TV

Fatal overdoses in Rhode Island projected to hit record high this...

PROVIDENCE – Over the first seven months of 2020, there has been a sharp increase in accidental drug overdose deaths in Rhode Island, according...
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