Tag: Medicaid
Providence Community Health Centers to lay off 70 employees
PROVIDENCE – Providence Community Health Centers Inc., which serves more than 80,000 patients, announced Thursday it is laying off 70 employees.
The nonprofit health organization...
McKee announces strategic plans to strengthen R.I.’s primary care system
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Tuesday announced strategic plans to strengthen the state’s primary care system, which include addressing the impact of...
Are you satisfied with the state’s response to the planned closure...
On April 4, primary care physician group Anchor Medical Associates announced it was closing its three locations in Lincoln, Providence and Warwick by June...
Legislation would restrict ‘spread pricing’ on meds
While prescription drug costs have been steadily increasing, the reimbursements paid to the pharmacies have been decreasing.
The math isn’t adding up.
But this contradiction is...
Is Anchor Medical’s closure spurring action to solve primary care?
The looming closure of Anchor Medical Associates has highlighted a critical dilemma facing Rhode Island’s health system: Tens of thousands of patients are in...
Wood River Health offers services to address homelessness
WESTERLY – Wood River Health recently announced it is expanding service to offer housing stabilization to residents of Washington County.
Wood River is becoming a...
R.I. health care system needs to be more focused amid federal...
Every day, a patient worried about getting the care they need calls CODAC Behavioral Healthcare.
The nonprofit offers psychiatric and mental health services to some...
State needs Rx for ailing health system
“We could be heading for a catastrophe,” Dr. Michael Wagner, Care New England Health System CEO and president, said when asked to assess Rhode...
Mark Rogers
Health Care Heroes 2025
PHARMACIST: Mark Rogers
Westerly Hospital director of pharmacy
What led you to choose health care as your profession? My great-grandfather, Dr. Charles...
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,...
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