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Farm system for restaurants

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...

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...
EASING OUTLOOK: Panelists discuss the official end to the COVID-19 national emergency at PBN’s Spring 2023 Health Care Summit on April 6. On the panel, from left, are Kristine Campagna of the R.I. Department of Health; Jane Hayward of the Rhode Island Foundation’s Long-Term Health Planning Committee; Corey McCarty of CCA Health Rhode Island; and Dr. G. Dean Roye of Rhode Island Hospital.  
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN health summit: A ‘welcome milestone’ in pandemic

Dr. G. Dean Roye is a self-declared pessimist, always concerned about everything. But when thinking about the next few months and the state of...

PBN announces 9 Health Care Heroes

PROVIDENCE – Eight health care professionals and one health education program have been named honorees in Providence Business News’ inaugural Health Care Heroes awards...

Tourism districts gain support from hotels: ‘We have to try something...

PROVIDENCE – There is growing support among hotel owners and managers for Providence and Warwick creating tourism-improvement districts to generate additional revenue for marketing...
HALEY ELMORE, Healthiest Employers program coordinator for Indianapolis-based data analytics firm Springbuk, delivered the keynote address Thursday during Providence Business News 2022 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island awards luncheon. / PBN PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

Groov-Pin, South County Health, AAA Northeast, CVS top winners in PBN’s...

PROVIDENCE – Groov-Pin Corp., South County Health, AAA Northeast and CVS Health Corp. were the top companies recognized Thursday in Providence Business News’ 11th...
PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS announced Friday 18 honorees for its annual Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards program.

PBN unveils 2022 Healthiest Employers honorees

PROVIDENCE – Eighteen organizations have been named as honorees in Providence Business News’ 2022 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards program. All the honorees for...
CHERYL MERCHANT, CEO of Taco Comfort Solutions, delivers her acceptance speech after receiving the 2022 Career Achiever award in the Providence Business News' 2022 Business Women Awards program. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Merchant, Hughes among 30 top businesswomen honored by PBN

PROVIDENCE – Taco Comfort Solutions CEO Cheryl Merchant, the Career Achievement winner in Providence Business News’ 2022 Business Women Awards program, said Wednesday she...
ABILITY TO ADAPT: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of employees at the Providence Marriott Downtown plummeted from more than 200 to eight. Susan Colucci, the hotel’s controller, says she had to relearn the systems her staff had been handling, such as accounting, purchasing and human resources as a result. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Susan Colucci

PBN 2021 Leaders & Achievers Awards Susan Colucci | Controller, Marriott Providence Downtown Just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. in March 2020, the...
A PATIENT HOST: Erin Umbdenstock held out hope she’d get her job back when she was laid off from the Providence Marriott Downtown when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. It turned out better than that for her. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Hospitality’s headache: How to attract, keep workers 

Erin Umbdenstock spent her four-month stint of unemployment trying to keep busy. She cooked and cleaned her Coventry apartment and took up several new hobbies....
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