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HEALTHY CHOICES: Anusha Venkataraman, managing director of the Central Providence Opportunities Health Equity Zone, at Merino Park in Providence, where residents in several city neighborhoods voted to install composting toilets, as well as make improvements at other city parks. 
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These Providence residents were asked how best to spend $1M in...

If you were given $1 million to improve the health and wellness of the people in your neighborhood, how would you spend it? That question...

RIDOH, EOHHS launch participatory spending pilot program

PROVIDENCE – Residents in two health equity zones now have the opportunity to help decide how to spend nearly half a million dollars in...
THE R.I. EXECUTIVE OFFICE of Health & Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health have selected six health equity zone teams for the Rhode to Equity program and will receive $775,000 in total funding to address social detriments of health in the state.

EOHHS, RIDOH select six teams for Rhode to Equity initiative

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Executive Office of Health & Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health jointly announced Tuesday that six teams participating...

Four new health equity zones created as part of expansion pilot

PROVIDENCE – A pilot program backed by a national philanthropic organization is supporting the expansion of health equity zones across the state. Four additional HEZs...

RIDOH seeking proposals for new or broadened health equity zones

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has announced plans to distribute $1 million in funding to health equity zones looking to expand boundaries...

DHS, DOH partner to award preschool-development grants

PROVIDENCE – As a result of a partnership between the R.I. Department of Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health, five health equity...
THE R.I. DEPARTMENT of Health is now overseeing 10 Health Equity Zones.

DOH announces 3 more Health Equity Zones

PROVIDENCE – Three Rhode Island communities have been established as Health Equity Zones by the state’s Department of Health. East Providence, Cranston and the West...
EXPANDING: Neyda DeJesus is co-coordinator of the Newport Health Equity Zone. The state is looking to expand the HEZ initiative with $1.4 million from the state and federal government to start new collaborations this ­summer.
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MICHAEL SALERNO

Health Equity Zones encourage community buy-in

Studies have increasingly found that social determinants, such as where you live and who you socialize with, have a lot to do with how...

R.I. Health Department seeks proposals for $1.4M Health Equity Zone funding

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health has $1.4 million to enhance the state’s nine current Health Equity Zones, as well as add new ones,...
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