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ADDED BENEFIT: Jacques Afonso, manager of community and customer management with National Grid Rhode Island, speaks with Jennifer Bray, senior program manager for corporate communications. Afonso has taken advantage of National Grid’s partial student-loan repayment benefit to help pay back $60,000 in loans after graduating from Suffolk University in 2009.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Loan repayment helps employers compete

Education 08/30/2019

Jacques Afonso, a manager of community and customer management for National Grid Rhode Island, had worked for the utility for almost a decade when...

TOP OF HIS GAME: Dr. John Murphy is not only in charge of physician affairs at Lifespan Corp., he’s also a professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Dr. John Murphy, 25 Over Fifty-five

Education 08/23/2019

25 Over Fifty-Five 2019 Award Winner DR. JOHN MURPHY | Executive vice president of physician affairs, Lifespan Corp.; Professor of medicine and family medicine,...

THE CARING KIND: Maria Ducharme began her career at The Miriam Hospital in 1987 and is now The Miriam’s chief nursing officer, overseeing about 750 nurses.   / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Maria Ducharme, 25 Over Fifty-five

Health Services 08/23/2019

25 Over Fifty-Five 2019 Award Winner MARIA DUCHARME | Senior vice president and chief nursing officer, The Miriam Hospital MARIA DUCHARME SAYS The Miriam Hospital...

Lifespan uses competitive spirit to give employees a healthy boost

Health Services 08/09/2019

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2019 5000+ EMPLOYEES #3: Lifespan Corp. CEO (or equivalent): Dr. Timothy J. Babineau, CEO and president Number of employees: 15,000 LIFESPAN CORP. OWNS...

ON-SITE FITNESS: Team Lifespan members participate in one of the company’s corporate fitness outings near the offices on Point Street in Providence. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Creativity key to helping health workers bond

Focus 07/05/2019

At Brown Medicine, most of its 400 employees take part in annual group outings that have become a popular tradition. In recent years, gatherings...

TAKING CONTROL: Sailing Heals takes cancer patients and their caregivers for a sail aboard the schooner Madeleine in Newport.  / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

For the very sick, sailing a chance to ‘refuel their souls’

Health Matters 06/21/2019

Katelyn McSherry’s memories of her mother on the water stretch back to when she was growing up in Portsmouth. “Growing up, we always had a...

Raimondo flexes political muscle

Government 06/14/2019

By halting a proposed acquisition of Care New England Health System by Boston-based Partners HealthCare, Gov. Gina M. Raimondo is showing leadership despite the...

Public in the middle on merger dispute

Government 04/12/2019

Updated at 9:41 a.m., April 12 The state hasn’t even begun its formal review of the proposed merger between Care New England Health System and...

LISTEN AND LEARN: Participants during the first of two discussion panels at the 2019 PBN Spring Health Care Summit at the Providence Marriott talk about how the state’s health care and insurance systems must listen to and understand the whole person they purport to serve. From left: Marc Backon, president of Tufts Health Plan’s commercial division; Stephen Farrell, UnitedHealthcare of New England CEO; Dr. John Murphy, executive vice president of physician affairs at Lifespan; James E. Purcell, former CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and founder of the Returns on Wellbeing Institute; Shannon Shallcross, co-founder and CEO of BetaXAnalytics; and Neil D. Steinberg, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Panel: Many health, insurance services out of touch with user

Government 04/12/2019

To work better, the state’s health care and insurance systems must ramp up one critical skill: listening to and understanding the whole person they...