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Gemma Foundation’s Gemma-Corcelli, Day Pitney’s Evangelista among PBN’s 2024 Business Women...

Business Services 04/15/2024

PROVIDENCE – Maria Gemma-Corcelli, executive director of the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation, has been selected by Providence Business News as this year’s...

Miriam Hospital’s Barrett named Career Achiever in PBN’s Health Care Heroes...

Health Services 03/04/2024

PROVIDENCE – Ann Barrett, the director of nursing resources at The Miriam Hospital, has been chosen as the Career Achiever in Providence Business News’...

ARTHUR S. ROBBINS, a co-founder of the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau who also served for 41 years on HopeHealth's board of directors, died Tuesday at the age of 91. / COURTESY HOPEHEALTH

Former PWCVB founder, longtime HopeHealth board member Robbins dies at 91

Business Services 02/21/2024

PROVIDENCE – Arthur S. Robbins, a local business leader who co-founded the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau and served four decades on HopeHealth’s...

SHANNON SHALLCROSS, right, head of client services at InsurTech Pinpoint Predictive, delivers the keynote address Thursday during Providence Business News' 2023 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards ceremony at Providence Marriott Downtown. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Groov-Pin, Children’s Friend, R.I. Medical Imaging, AAA, CVS named PBN’s top...

Business Services 08/11/2023

PROVIDENCE – Groov-Pin Corp., Children’s Friend & Service, Rhode Island Medical Imaging Inc., AAA Northeast and CVS Health Corp. were the top companies recognized...

PBN unveils 2023 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island

Business Services 06/26/2023

PROVIDENCE – Twenty-four organizations have been named as honorees in Providence Business News’ 2023 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards program. All the honorees for...

R.I. Sports Commission executive director dead at age 63

Economy 06/12/2023

PROVIDENCE – John Gibbons, the longtime executive director of the Rhode Island Sports Commission, died at the age of 63, the Providence Warwick Convention...

PAULA IACONO, executive director of the Chartercare Foundation who was named the 2023 Career Achiever in Providence Business News’ 2023 Business Women Awards program, delivers her speech during Thursday's awards luncheon at the Providence Marriott Downtown. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN honors top Business Women for 2023

Business Services 05/26/2023

PROVIDENCE – Paula Iacono at first didn’t set out to be a fundraiser. But, she said, “it happened.” Iacono, the executive director of the Chartercare...

Farm system for restaurants

Dining Out 05/12/2023

While most of the staffing issues endured by the restaurant and food service industry in Rhode Island have improved, there continue to be labor...

WORKING TOGETHER: Panelist Dr. Claire Levesque of Point32Health Services Inc., third from left, speaks during the PBN Spring 2023 Health Care Summit and Health Care Heroes Awards on April 6 at the Providence Marriott Downtown. Also on the panel, from left, are Eric Swain of United HealthCare of New England Inc.; Kirsten Hokeness of Bryant University; Peter Marino of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island; Dr. Methodius Tuuli of Women & Infants Hospital; and Martha Wofford of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.  PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Panel: Collaboration needed across the board to resolve health inequities in...

Health Services 04/14/2023

Inequities within the health care system are not only proving to be persistent, but they are getting worse. Panelists at the Providence Business News Spring...