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Five Questions With: Richard Leclerc

Richard Leclerc | Director, R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals 1. What are your priorities in your new role? My priorities are...
JEFFREY WOLFSBERG, program director for the R.I. Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative, delivered the Thursday the keynote address of the Providence Business News 2024 Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island Awards event. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Groov-Pin, Centreville Bank, Neighborhood Health Plan, AAA, CVS named PBN’s top...

PROVIDENCE – Groov-Pin Corp., Centreville Bank, Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, AAA Northeast and CVS Health Corp. were the top companies recognized Thursday...
PURPOSE DRIVEN: Garrick Wann, a manager of client recovery advisers at Aware Recovery Care of Rhode Island LLC, has had his own battles with addiction but uses that experience to help others, giving him a sense of purpose. 
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An approach to addiction that’s uncommon in R.I.

As someone who has gone through his own struggles with addiction recovery, Garrick Wann knows just how meaningful it is to spend time with...

Lifespan Recovery Center helped treat former RCCA patients

PROVIDENCE – The Lifespan Recovery Center, operated by Lifespan Corp., announced that it stepped in to help patients who were displaced in 2023 when...

R.I. leaders announce pilot program for those in need of wound...

CRANSTON – Gov. Daniel J. McKee, the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services and its partners announced a pilot program on Aug....

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of R.I. honors Project SEARCH graduates

PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island held a graduation ceremony on June 9 for its 2022-2023 class of Project SEARCH,...

Rhode Island State Psychiatric Hospital receives Joint Commission accreditation

CRANSTON – The Rhode Island State Psychiatric Hospital has received a three-year accreditation by The Joint Commission, which demonstrates its compliance with all standards...

Charest nominated to be next Executive Office of Health and Human...

PROVIDENCE – Richard Charest, the current director of the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, was appointed by Gov. Daniel J....
SUDDEN BOOST: After the national suicide and crisis lifeline changed its number to a three-digit 988, monthly calls in Rhode Island increased 53% from 313 in December 2021 to 480 in December 2022. Pictured is Matthew Latondresse, 988 clinical supervisor at the BH Link call center in East Providence. The mural was done by artist Elizabeth Jweinat, who works under the name Lizzy $our. 
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Number change boosts calls to R.I. crisis lifeline

A little over six months since the national suicide and crisis lifeline trimmed down its number to an easy-to-remember 988, calls have been pouring...
VITAL SERVICE: Ashlee Austin, right, site inclusive health clinician at Thundermist Health Center, meets with a patient at the 
center’s West Warwick location.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Mental health providers are overwhelmed in R.I.

As COVID-19 began to creep into Rhode Island in early 2020, Michelle Crossley saw a steady increase in emails from people wondering whether they...
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