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Digital Special Editions 08/14/2026

Dr. Michael Wagner Care New England Health System CEO and president DR. MICHAEL WAGNER may be stepping down as CEO and president of Care New England...

PBN celebrates 40th anniversary with business community

Business Services 08/07/2026

PAWTUCKET – Providence Business News on Thursday celebrated four decades of providing business journalism to Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts at its 40th Anniversary...

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Print Edition 07/03/2026

1. PBN announces 2026 40 Under Forty honorees POSTED ONLINE: JUNE 2. Forty young professionals were selected as the winners of Providence Business News’...

Care New England updates branding with new logo

Health Services 01/18/2026

PROVIDENCE – Care New England Health System facilities such as Women & Infants Hospital, Butler Hospital and Kent County Memorial Hospital are familiar names to many Rhode Islanders. With...

Tuuli named interim president of Women & Infants Hospital

Health Services 12/01/2025

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Methodius G. Tuuli has been named interim president of Women & Infants Hospital, Care New England Health System announced Monday. Tuuli will take the reins...

Kent Hospital president leaving to lead Greater Baltimore Medical Center

Health Services 07/20/2025

PROVIDENCE – Care New England Health System recently announced that Dr. Paari Gopalakrishnan is stepping down as president and chief operating officer of Kent...

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...