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Jones to serve as interim director of BHDDH

Government 04/09/2021

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced on Friday that Sec. Womazetta Jones will be immediately deployed to serve as interim director of the...

EOHHS ANNOUNCED $9 million in grants to 10 nursing home facilities from the Nursing Facility Program Support and Change program.

EOHHS awards $9M in COVID-aid grants to nursing home facilities

Government 10/22/2020

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services has awarded $9 million in grants to 10 nursing home facilities in the...

R.I. flu vaccination campaign kicks off

Health Services 10/04/2020

PROVIDENCE – As flu season begins amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Rhode Island health officials say they are aiming for a 90% flu vaccination rate...

Shaffer named Rhode Island’s new Medicaid director

Health Services 05/07/2020

CRANSTON – Benjamin Shaffer has been appointed as the state’s new Medicaid director, a role he’s been filling on an interim basis since February...

The Rhode Island Foundation has committed $1 million towards implementation of a 10-year health initiative. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation commits $1M to 10-year health plan for state

Health Services 01/20/2020

PROVIDENCE – After more than a year of poring over vast amounts of data related to the health of Rhode Islanders, the Rhode Island...

R.I. leaders grapple with $200M budget deficit

Economic Activity 01/03/2020

Rhode Island has a budget deficit, again. By definition, a structural deficit is a persistent budget situation in which revenues are growing slower than expenditures....

Raimondo names Kathryn Power to head BHDDH

Government 12/20/2019

PROVIDENCE - Kathryn Power has been picked to head the state’s Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, which she previously led for...

NEW ROLE: Womazetta Jones, left, who was nominated by Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, right, as secretary of the R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services and began her new role in late July, said there’s an absolute necessity to better deliver services respectful of cultural and economic diversity.  / COURTESY DAVID LEVESQUE

Five questions with Womazetta Jones

5Q 10/04/2019

Womazetta Jones | Secretary, R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services 1. You became Rhode Island’s chief of health and human services in late...

RHODE ISLAND was awarded a $3.4 million planning grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand the capacity to treat substance use disorders by Medicaid providers in the state. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

R.I. receives $3.4M federal grant to expand addiction treatment by Medicaid...

Government 09/25/2019

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island was awarded a $3.5 million planning grant to increase the state’s treatment capacity of Medicaid providers for substance use disorder...