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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...

GROWING SECTOR: Lori Mayer, left, a veteran pediatric intensive care nurse at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, speaks with Abigail King, another PICU nurse. The state is projected to add 860 registered nurse jobs by 2026, according to the R.I. Department of Labor and Training.  / COURTESY LIFESPAN CORP.

Job growth in R.I. is expected to come at the top...

Cover Story 12/21/2018

If you don’t catch on at the top of Rhode Island’s labor market, you may slip all the way to the bottom. That’s because the...

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL has been named among the top general hospitals in the U.S. by the Leapfrog Group. / COURTESY ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL

Leapfrog Group names St. Anne’s, The Miriam among top U.S. hospitals

Health Services 12/04/2018

FALL RIVER — The Leapfrog Group has named St. Anne’s Hospital among the 35 top general hospitals in the United States, and also named...

Despite false start, transformation of Jewelry District taking shape

Cover Story 11/09/2018

On a recent gray, autumn afternoon, early rush-hour traffic was backing up along Point Street in the old Jewelry District in downtown Providence. Most...

HEALTH REFORM: The focus of the second panel of participants at the Health Care Summit at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick on Oct. 30 was health care reform and the insurance market, especially in light of the passing of the Republican tax cut bill in 2017 that removes the penalty for not signing up for health care in 2019. From left: Marc Spooner, executive vice president, commercial and government products, Tufts Health Plan; R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner Marie L. Ganim; HealthSource RI Director Zachary W. Sherman; Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island Chief Growth Officer Dave Burnett; Daniel Moynihan, vice president, contracting, Lifespan; and Coastal Medical CEO Dr. Alan Kurose.  / PBN PHOTO/PAMELA BHATIA

‘Confusion’ over ACA’s future threatens market stability

Government 11/09/2018

A weakened individual mandate for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act taking effect next year remains a potent threat to local health care...

LIFESPAN CORP. announced it has ended talks with Partners HealthCare and Care New England exploring how all three health care providers might work together to strengthen patient care delivery in the state. No agreement was reached.

Talks end for partnership of Lifespan, CNE/Partners

Health Services 10/29/2018

PROVIDENCE — Lawrence A. Aubin, chairman of Lifespan Corp.’s board of directors, announced today that the company's talks with Partners HealthCare and Care New...