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Nursing home chain owners charged with stealing $83M in Medicaid money

Government 06/29/2023

PROVIDENCE – The owners of a Centers Health Care were charged on Wednesday in a massive fraud scheme that allegedly siphoned off $83 million...

2 Rhode Island nursing homes file for receivership, citing ‘inability to...

Economy 06/28/2023

PROVIDENCE – Two Rhode Island nursing homes have filed for receivership, declaring their “inability to pay debts as they come due.” However, neither residents nor...

McDonald leaving R.I. Department of Health July 29

Government 06/02/2022

PROVIDENCE – Less than six months after the former longtime leader of the state agency resigned, the interim director of the R.I. Department of...

Rhode Island accepting applications for safe injection sites

Health Services 03/01/2022

PROVIDENCE – After Gov. Daniel J. McKee signed legislation authorizing the establishment of a two-year pilot program in early July 2021, making Rhode Island...

THE R.I. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH is proposing updated regulations that would allow health care workers who are not vaccinated for COVID-19 to go to work, as long as they wear medical grade N95 masks during periods of high virus transmission in the community. The departmetn said it will be taking public comment on these regulations until March 25, before the new policies take effect several weeks later. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

RIDOH proposes regulation update allowing unvaccinated health care workers

Government 02/24/2022

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Health announced on Thursday that it's proposing new regulations that would allow health care workers who are not...

FRESH INGREDIENTS: Master chef Rosa Munoz, of Savory Fare, prepares a home-cooked meal in the commercial kitchen at food incubator Hope & Main in Warren. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

R.I. considers relaxing law on homemade food

Focus 02/18/2022

A home-based bakery seemed to make perfect sense to Portsmouth resident Kara Donovan. Friends and family had already asked to buy her creations, and...

SO FAR THIS YEAR, up through Feb. 6, a total of just 1,432 self-test results for COVID-19 have been reported to the R.I. Department of Health, including 1,106 positive results and 326 negatives. That means just 22.7% of people who reported their self-test results were negative, far less than the percentage of negative test results seen in the overall testing data collected by the state. / COURTESY CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE

Only 1,432 at-home COVID tests reported to RIDOH this year

Health Services 02/10/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's government distributed 1 million at-home COVID-19 test kits to state residents in a matter of a month earlier this year,...

SPEAKER-NOMINEE K. Joseph Shekarchi announced Tuesday a bipartisan House of Representatives task force to oversee the state's implementation of COVID-19 vaccine distribution. / COURTESY CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Shekarchi appoints bipartisan House task force for vaccine distribution

Coronavirus 11/24/2020

PROVIDENCE – R.I. House of Representatives Speaker-nominee K. Joseph Shekarchi, D-Warwick, announced Tuesday a bipartisan House task force to oversee the state's implementation of...