Tag: Linda Hurley
PBN Health Care Summit: Collaboration needed in light of federal cutbacks
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s already challenged health care system could face even more obstacles depending on federal policy shifts, according to Dr. Michael Wagner,...
Brown Medicine’s Caliendo PBN’s Health Care Heroes career achiever
PROVIDENCE – Dr. Angela Caliendo, executive vice chairperson of medicine in Brown Medicine’s division of infectious diseases, has been chosen as the Career Achiever...
PBN summit: Does tech such as AI need more oversight in...
A device is in the works that can monitor when a patient administered their asthma inhaler, whether they used it at the correct time...
PBN Health Care Summit: R.I.’s fragile system is now in ‘crisis’
WARWICK – Six months ago, Dr. Michael Wagner said Rhode Island’s health care was fragile. Now he says it’s in a state of crisis.
Among...
Hurley to earn National Council for Mental Wellbeing achievement award
PROVIDENCE – The National Council for Mental Wellbeing will present Linda Hurley, CEO of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare, with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award recognizes...
Narcan sold in stores seen as pivotal in R.I. drug crisis
East Providence Fire Department Capt. John Potvin has seen the lifesaving effects of naloxone in action dozens of times throughout his more than 30...
First R.I. overdose prevention center slated for 2024 opening
PROVIDENCE – Almost two years after Rhode Island became the first state in the country to legalize overdose prevention centers, plans to establish the...
CODAC mobile clinic continues to operate despite cease-and-desist order from city
WOONSOCKET – The future of the mobile clinic that has been operating on the property of the nonprofit Community Care Alliance in Woonsocket since...
1st mobile unit deployed in R.I.’s addiction fight
John Hayes literally has a front-row seat to the widening demographics of opioid addiction.
He’s a driver of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare’s new mobile clinic, a...
CODAC mobile unit first in U.S. to earn federal approval
CRANSTON – Medication-assisted treatment for people battling opioid addiction is now available through CODAC Behavioral Healthcare’s new mobile unit, which CODAC says is the...



















