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Five Questions With: Lisa Menard-Manlove

In July, Hopkinton-based Wood River Health announced Dr. Lisa Menard-Manlove had been promoted from associate medical director to the organization's chief medical officer. Now in the C-suite, Menard-Manlove oversees the medical services and clinical...
A MEDICAL CONSULTATION: Frances DaLomba, clinical director of the health and wellness center at the nonprofit Justice Assistance, chats with the organization’s CEO, Jacob Bissaillon. 
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Breaking healthcare barriers after prison

He opened his car door in the parking lot of a local steakhouse and couldn’t make himself get out. It was his first day...
GRAND ­ENTRANCE: An $81 million expansion project at Kent County Memorial Hospital in Warwick will include a remodeling of the hospital’s lobby. The work is expected to be completed by the spring of 2028. 
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Kent Hospital’s $81M expansion targets areas of demand

For Rhode Islanders, a visit to a hospital emergency room takes longer on average than it would in almost any other state in the...

OHIC report finds gaps in primary care access, spending in R.I.

PROVIDENCE – Access to primary care in Rhode Island remains uneven and strained, with provider shortages and gaps in preventive care persisting across the...
GROWING GAP: Brown University Health nurse practitioner Pamela Lauria, who is also a Democratic state senator representing Barrington and East Providence, worries that the concierge care model, in which patients pay a monthly or annual fee to see a provider with a smaller patient load, will intensify disparities in the statewide healthcare system.
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Rise of concierge healthcare has raised concerns

As a nurse practitioner at Brown University Health’s East Greenwich office, Pamela Lauria has met with new patients who tell her that she’s their...

Buy-in needed to fix R.I. primary care

Last year saw a host of individual proposals from hospital and state leaders, including Gov. Daniel J. McKee and Attorney General Peter F. Neronha,...

Does Rhode Island need a multiyear primary care transformation plan with...

The Centurion Foundation’s recent purchase of financially ailing Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital has at least for now averted...
SQUEEZED: Machinist Troy Hawkins takes a measurement while setting up equipment at Hawkins Machine Co. The Coventry company is feeling the sting of rising costs. 
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Businesses stuck in neutral along with stagnant economy

Rhode Island business owners need a jolt. That’s the biggest takeaway from PBN’s 2026 Winter Business Survey. A malaise that took hold last year amid...

Legislative commission recommends establishing a medical school at URI

PROVIDENCE – A special legislative commission on Tuesday voted to recommend the establishment of the state's first public medical school at the University of...
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Five Questions With: Aaron Robinson

Aaron Robinson | CEO and president, South County Health 1. Access to care in Rhode Island is at a crisis point, especially in primary...
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