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DaVinci Center receives $440K federal award for community health, food programming

Health Services 09/06/2026

PROVICENCE – The DaVinci Center, a multipurpose social services nonprofit serving Providence’s North End neighborhood, has received $440,000 in federal funding to expand its...

RARE BREED: Dr. Thomas Bledsoe, a general internist and primary care physician at Brown Medicine’s East Providence Primary Care, says finding a primary care doctor such as him has become difficult for people in need of a new physician. Bledsoe is also president of the Rhode Island Medical Society. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

How to cure shortage of primary care docs?

Education 12/23/2022

When the phone rings at East Providence Primary Care, chances are there is someone in search of a new doctor on the other end. It...

URI WAS GRANTED $1 million from the federal government for its program to conduct outreach to rural Rhode Island communities regarding the opioid crisis. The program will be led by URI College of Pharmacy clinical associate professor Anita Jacobson, pictured above. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI gets $1M for rural opioid crisis outreach

Education 10/04/2019

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island has received a $1 million federal grant to fight the opioid crisis in rural Rhode Island...

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