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Care New England Health System opens Pawtucket pharmacy

Health Services 04/28/2025

PAWTUCKET – Care New England Health System opened its new pharmacy on Brewster Street Monday. The facility is located at the Care New England Medical...

AS MUCH AS 25,000 Rhode Islanders may be left without a primary care provider after Anchor Medical Associates closes by June 30, leaving some scrambling to ease the strain it will cause on the state's already fragile health care system. / PBN FILE PHOTO

Is Anchor Medical’s closure spurring action to solve primary care?

Editor's Choice 04/18/2025

The looming closure of Anchor Medical Associates has highlighted a critical dilemma facing Rhode Island’s health system: Tens of thousands of patients are in...

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...

State needs Rx for ailing health system

Editorial and Op-Ed 04/11/2025

“We could be heading for a catastrophe,” Dr. Michael Wagner, Care New England Health System CEO and president, said when asked to assess Rhode...

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,...

Women & Infants set to open spacious new labor and delivery...

Health Services 03/17/2025

PROVIDENCE – Soon, expecting mothers in Rhode Island will have a whole new unit dedicated to labor and delivery. Next week, Women & Infants Hospital...

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...

Commentary: To save R.I. health care, invest more in Medicaid

Commentary 02/05/2025

Rhode Island’s health care system is in crisis, and it cannot be ignored any longer. As many Rhode Islanders can attest, booking a doctor’s appointment...