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Gov. Daniel J. McKee

Resilient Rhody needs a strong workforce

For 40 years, Providence Business News has been reporting on the economic and workforce changes, challenges and milestones that have helped shape the Rhode...
HANGING HANDS: Roger Williams Medical Center was one of two troubled Rhode Island hospitals – the other was Our Lady of Fatima – purchased by the nonprofit Centurion Foundation in 2026 after taking several years trying to line up financing and obtain approvals. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. healthcare system struggles to make recovery

Massive cuts to insurance, persistent staffing shortages and widespread financial woes continue to vex Rhode Island’s healthcare system in 2026, though the Ocean State...
Peter Marino

Driving Forces: Peter Marino

Peter Marino Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island CEO and president PETER MARINO HAS just about seen it all since taking the top job at Neighborhood...
TURNAROUND TIME? Brown University Health has recently made leadership changes at Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, which lost $8.9 million in fiscal 2025. The losses have continued in 2026. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Cross-border toll: Brown Health’s Mass. facilities have lost millions; will it...

When state Rep. Lauren H. Carson saw Brown University Health’s financial performance earlier this year, she was fuming. Rhode Island’s largest health system reported a...
ECONOMIC ILLS: Brown University Health’s­ 2024 purchase of two Massachusetts hospitals, including Saint Anne’s in Fall River, has led to significant financial losses. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­WILLIAM HAMILTON

Brown Health losses raise fears for R.I. services

Brown University Health insists losses tied to two ailing Massachusetts hospitals have no bearing on financial decisions affecting Rhode Island operations. But they can’t convince...
GRAND ­ENTRANCE: An $81 million expansion project at Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick will include a remodeling of the hospital’s lobby. The work is expected to be completed by the spring of 2028. 
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Kent Hospital’s $81M expansion targets areas of demand

For Rhode Islanders, a visit to a hospital emergency room takes longer on average than it would in almost any other state in the...
INTERNS AND RESIDENTS represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents rallied outside Rhode Island Hospital on June 5 as the union attempts to negotiate its first contract with Brown University Health. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

At hospitals, both management and residents feeling financial woes

While lawmakers on Smith Hill were busy putting the final touches on the state’s fiscal 2027 $15.2 billion budget, a first-of-its-kind labor action was...
GROWING GAP: Brown University Health nurse practitioner Pamela Lauria, who is also a Democratic state senator representing Barrington and East Providence, worries that the concierge care model, in which patients pay a monthly or annual fee to see a provider with a smaller patient load, will intensify disparities in the statewide healthcare system.
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Rise of concierge healthcare has raised concerns

As a nurse practitioner at Brown University Health’s East Greenwich office, Pamela Lauria has met with new patients who tell her that she’s their...

Champlin Foundation grants $12.1M to 103 R.I. organizations

CRANSTON – The Champlin Foundation on Tuesday awarded $12.1 million in grants to 103 organizations across 28 cities and towns throughout Rhode Island to...
DOULA ­SESSION: Rachelle ­Friesen, co-president of the nonprofit Doulas of Rhode Island, speaks to a gathering at Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket as part of the group’s statewide “Meet the Doulas” awareness campaign. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Demand for doulas in R.I. rises after insurance change

What a difference a few years have made for doulas in Rhode Island. Doulas provide physical and emotional support to expectant mothers, before, during and...
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