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Federal grants help reduce Rhode Island beach closures

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health was awarded a $203,500 grant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its coastal beach-monitoring program, ecoRI...
U.S. SEN. SHELDON Whitehouse, left, and Lifespan primary investigator Dr. Peter J. Quesenberry discuss his team’s research at Lifespan’s research lab at 1 Hoppin St. in Providence. / PBN PHOTO/ROB BORKOWSKI

Whitehouse warns hospital consolidation could hurt innovation, economy

PROVIDENCE ­– As U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spoke to Lifespan researchers celebrating a $10 million stem cell biology research grant Aug. 29, he warned...
STYLING: Jackie Pace, left, director of Empire Beauty School in Warwick, watches as school educator Corrie Cagnon instructs student stylist Andrew Bretz. He’s cutting the hair of Theresa Perry, of Coventry, who has been coming to Empire for three years. / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. reduces required instruction hours for hairdressers, cosmetologists

Prospective hairdressers and cosmetologists applying for a Rhode Island hairdresser/cosmetician license may have it a little easier thanks to a bill signed into law...
VALUABLE RESOURCE: CODAC Behavioral Healthcare Inc., headquartered in Cranston, operates six centers in Rhode Island that offer addiction-treatment services. Above, CODAC CEO and President Linda Hurley talks with Robert Babat, program administrator for Newport CODAC. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Neighborhoods pushing back against Suboxone clinic expansions

Rhode Island has about 300 medical professionals who are trained and licensed to prescribe Suboxone, a drug that helps people who are addicted to...
PERSONAL TOUCH: Mandi Willoughby, baby Ian and Graham Willoughby, middle, meet with resident Arthur Schena. / PBN PHOTO/­RUPERT ­WHITELEY

Commonwealth House: Assisted living that feels like home

Graham and Mandi Willoughby, owners of Commonwealth House in Warwick, Rhode Island’s smallest assisted-living facility, tout personalized, small-scale care. The facility is located within a...
BROWN UNIVERSITY AND THE R.I. Department of Health are testing 38 Rhode Island water sites against the new, lowered health advisory threshold for two types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. /COURTESY WARWICKRI.GOV

Brown, RIDOH testing new PFAS health advisory threshold at 38 R.I....

PROVIDENCE – Since the Environmental Protection Agency has lowered the health advisory threshold for two types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, Brown University and...
ROSHNI DARNAL, left, director of senior services at Federal Hill House Association, and Laura Jones, director of health initiatives at the Rhode Island Parent Information Network, partner in demonstrating Own Your Health programs for Older Adults as part of the new Tufts Health Plan Foundation RIPIN grant award. /COURTESY NATHAN D. MARKLEY

Tufts Health Plan Foundation grant enables RIPIN to expand services

CRANSTON – The Rhode Island Parent Information Network will expand its education services to offer chronic disease self-support and balance classes to 360 older...
CHALLENGES BEYOND TRAINING: Dr. Michelle Cyr, right, associate dean for academic affairs at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, with third-year medical student Lizzy Tarr, sees many financial obstacles facing young physicians in Rhode Island. / PBN PHOTO/­Michael Salerno

Changes are needed to recruit and retain physicians in Rhode Island,...

Inconsistent data about Rhode Island’s health care system could give anyone a headache. The Commonwealth Fund’s 2017 Scorecard on State Health System Performances found that...
DR. ELINORE McCANCE-KATZ, who helped create The Warren Alpert Medical School's new program pre-qualifying students to treat opioid addition, said the program will help "to bring the treatment of substance-use disorders into mainstream medicine."

Warren Alpert program will pre-qualify grads to treat addiction

PROVIDENCE – The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has introduced a new program to allow students to qualify to treat drug addiction...
MICHAEL SOUZA is the new chief executive officer of Landmark Medical Center. /COURTESY LANDMARK MEDICAL CENTER

Five Questions With: Michael Souza

Michael Souza joined Landmark Medical Center as its chief executive officer earlier this spring, after serving as president of the Hospital Association of Rhode...
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