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CHARTING HER COURSE: Cheryl DiGennaro, owner of Newport Yacht and Home LLC in Middletown, says the desire to design living spaces in houses and boats is something she was born with. 
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DAVID HANSEN

On land or sea, her mind is always on the décor

When Cheryl DiGennaro was growing up, she’d watch her mom, an interior designer, working on various projects; that passion passed from mother to daughter. “I...

PBN’s most-read stories of 2025

News of Providence's changing cityscape generated the most buzz in 2025, with the top-read articles detailing new developments and commercial projects. The Ocean State...

Newport Hospital to open new behavioral health unit for adolescents next...

NEWPORT – Newport Hospital will next year open a new unit dedicated to treating serious short-term behavioral health needs for adolescents. Hospital officials held a ribbon-cutting...
KEEPING WATCH: Cassie Voll, left, and Brooke Cure, both of Newport, are founders of Moms over Margins, an advocacy group fighting to prevent the closure of Newport Hospital’s Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center. Voll and Cure are standing outside the hospital. 
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Birthing center’s future still a source of worry

When Cassie Voll was first seen at Newport Hospital’s Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center, she arrived on the heels of “a really bad experience...

Brown Health names new advisers to determine future of Newport Hospital birthing center

NEWPORT – A newly assembled community group has formed to guide the fate of the Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center at Newport Hospital. Brown University Health, which operates the hospital, is considering closing...

Leapfrog: 4 of 9 R.I. acute care hospitals earn an ‘A’...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that assigns hospital safety ratings, has given an “A” grade to four out of nine acute...
GETTING TESTED: A member of the medical staff conducts an examination on a patient at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England’s Providence Health Center recently. Officials and patients are concerned that Medicaid funding changes could alter access to routine health care services. 
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Fight over Medicaid alarms OB-GYN patients

Planned Parenthood ­patients are worried. Many patients in Rhode Island and elsewhere who rely on the nonprofit for OB-GYN services could lose that assistance under...

Birthing center at Newport Hospital will remain open, Brown Health Home...

PROVIDENCE – The birthing center at Newport Hospital will indeed remain open, but Brown Health Home Medical will be closing effective Sept. 5. These are...
NEWPORT HOSPITAL'S birthing center is one of the services that Brown University Health has said it is considering discontinuing in the face of the health system's financial woes. / COURTESY NEWPORT HOSPITAL

Brown Health grapples with balancing community and its own financial needs

Brown University Health is in a tough spot. The nonprofit health system is considering cutting several crucial services and programs in order to reach its...

Thomas named president, chief medical officer of Newport Hospital

NEWPORT – Dr. Tenny Thomas began his new role as Newport Hospital’s president and chief medical officer Monday. Thomas most recently served as chief medical...
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