Tag: RIDOH
Nursing assistant training program gets probationary license after state violations uncovered
PROVIDENCE – A nursing assistant training program’s application for an ownership change is on probation after the R.I. Department of Health found several violations...
Cottage food industry booming after state relaxes homemade food sale laws
The cottage food industry in Rhode Island is booming. What were once side hustles – selling homemade food items made out of one’s own...
RIDOH suspends nursing assistant training program’s license after finding several violations
CRANSTON – The R.I. Department of Health suspended a nursing assistant training program license indefinitely on April 29 after finding several violations.
The department said...
CAUTION ZONE? As I-195 district projects proceed, economic factors have some...
Developer D+P Real Estate Inc. toiled for years on plans for a six-story, 240,000-square-foot, mixed-use building along Interstate 195 in Providence that would have...
CDC terminates $31M in federal grants to RIDOH
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled about $31 million in grant funding allocated to the R.I. Department of...
McKee, RIDOH highlight need for investment in primary health care workers
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee and Dr. Jerome Larkin, director of the R.I. Department of Health, were recently joined by health care workers...
PRIMARY DUTIES: Nurse practitioners playing bigger role as doctors disappear
Erica Ogni’s workday starts early and is chock full, with as many as two dozen patients trooping through her exam room at South County...
PBN’s most-read stories of 2024
From high-profile corporate layoffs to controversial real estate sales, fallout from the Washington Bridge shutdown and organization leadership shakeups, the top stories of 2024...
RIDOH suspends EMT for failing to submit dozens of electronic patient...
BURRILLVILLE – An emergency medical technician is facing a two-week suspension after failing to submit dozens of required electronic patient care reports in one...
RIDOH revokes registration of nursing assistant accused of sexually assaulting patient
WARREN – The R.I. Department of Health has revoked the registration of a nursing assistant charged with sexually assaulting a patient.
Erick Sajche Meza was...