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Lifespan announces opposition campaign aimed at Partners’ CNE acquisition
Updated, 8:40 p.m., April 24
PROVIDENCE - Citing a list of worries ranging from higher health care costs to patients, doctors and jobs being pipelined...
Hasbro reports $26.7M profit in Q1
PAWTUCKET – Hasbro Inc. reported a profit of $26.7 million in the first quarter of 2019, a reversal from a $112.5 million loss in...
WashTrust reports 8% profit growth
WESTERLY – The Washington Trust Co.’s parent company reported Monday a 7.9% increase in net income in the first quarter from a year earlier....
PBN announces 2019 Business Women Awards honorees
PROVIDENCE – Molly Donohue Magee, executive director of Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance, has been named the 2019 Career Achiever, and Kimberly Silvestri,...
Unemployment ticks down in March, along with jobs
PROVIDENCE – The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate in Rhode Island was 3.8% in March, a 0.4 percentage-point decline year over year and level with the...
R.I. ranks in middle of the pack in Bloomberg Innovation Index
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island ranked No. 23 on the Bloomberg 2019 U.S. Innovation Index released this week. The organization said that Rhode Island had...
CVS pays $535K in civil penalties over alleged filling of invalid...
PROVIDENCE – CVS Health Corp. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $535,000 to resolve federal allegations that the company’s retail stores violated...
Lardaro: ‘Abysmal’ R.I. February CCI potential sign of oncoming recession
PROVIDENCE – The Current Conditions Index for Rhode Island was 42 in February, indicating contraction, according to University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro...
Horvat to succeed Lamb as chairman/CEO at Centreville Bank
WEST WARWICK – Harold M. Horvat will replace Thomas J. Lamb Jr. as Centreville Bank’s chairman and CEO, the Rhode Island-based bank announced Friday.Horvat,...
CNE: Merger could mean more outpatient care
Updated at 9:46 a.m., April 12PROVIDENCE – Care New England may offer more outpatient services if the group’s proposed acquisition by Boston-based Partners HealthCare...
