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THE GRODEN NETWORK is one of nine early intervention providers that received $3.6 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds to help offset the organizations’ revenue losses and high expenses that were incurred due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

$3.6M in state CARES Act funds distributed to 9 early-intervention providers

PROVIDENCE – About $3.6 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds will be distributed to nine early-intervention providers across Rhode Island,...

BHDDH seeks separate license for forensic psychiatric facility

CRANSTON – The R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals has announced plans to seek a separate license for a 52-bed forensic...
CRUCIAL CHECKUP: Margaret Vargas, right, a dental hygienist with nonprofit CareLink Inc.’s mobile dental clinic, conducts an examination of Sister Anne Kelly at The Villa at Saint Antoine in North Smithfield. The clinic serves 3,000 patients at 53 Rhode Island nursing homes.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Demand for dental care program growing, but funding isn’t

For more than 13 years, CareLink Inc. has traversed Rhode Island with a mobile dentistry practice, serving elderly, low-income patients in nursing homes who...

CODAC helps lead new effort against smoking

PROVIDENCE – CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is at the forefront of a statewide push to get Rhode Islanders with behavioral health issues to quit smoking. CODAC...

Report: Undefined leadership, lack of diversity must be addressed in BHDDH...

PROVIDENCE – Undefined leadership, a lack of diversity and limited activity to educate and support communities of color are among the findings of a...

New program takes aim at Rhode Island overdose crisis

PROVIDENCE – A nearly $900,000 federal grant is funding a new program aimed at the drug overdose crisis in the Ocean State. The Imani Breakthrough...

Ashley O’Shea

2021 40 Under Forty Awards Ashley O’Shea | 36 | Director of Strategic Communications, R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services Where do you...
THE R.I. EXECUTIVE OFFICE of Health & Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health have selected six health equity zone teams for the Rhode to Equity program and will receive $775,000 in total funding to address social detriments of health in the state.

EOHHS, RIDOH select six teams for Rhode to Equity initiative

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Executive Office of Health & Human Services and the R.I. Department of Health jointly announced Tuesday that six teams participating...

Needed Slater overhaul will be costly

The price of transforming Eleanor Slater Hospital into a well-run, well-appointed hospital for Rhode Islanders with significant psychiatric or medical needs is unknown, but...

Four new health equity zones created as part of expansion pilot

PROVIDENCE – A pilot program backed by a national philanthropic organization is supporting the expansion of health equity zones across the state. Four additional HEZs...
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