Wagner Stepping Down as CEO of Care New England

Wagner Stepping Down as CEO of Care New England

GoLocalProv News Team

Care New England Health System (CNE) announced on Friday that Michael Wagner, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer,…

US DOJ Takes Action Against More Than 400 Nationally on Health Care Fraud, Two Named in RI

US DOJ Takes Action Against More Than 400 Nationally on Health Care Fraud, Two Named in RI

GoLocalProv News Team

The United States Justice Department on Tuesday announced the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in… Read More

RI Health Insurers Pushing for Rate Increases as High as 35%

RI Health Insurers Pushing for Rate Increases as High as 35%

GoLocalProv Business Team

The spiraling cost of health insurance is hitting record highs. And Rhode Island businesses are about to get clobbered… Read More

Let’s Make Safe, Non-Opioid Pain Treatment Affordable - Josh Rosenthal, Guest MINDSETTER™

Let’s Make Safe, Non-Opioid Pain Treatment Affordable - Josh Rosenthal, Guest MINDSETTER™

Josh Rosenthal, Guest MINDSETTER™

Nearly 80,000 of our fellow Americans died of an opioid overdose in the most recently measured 12 months, according to the… Read More

Alzheimer’s Is Growing. Rhode Island Must Respond. - Meredith Sheehan, Guest MINDSETTER™

Alzheimer’s Is Growing. Rhode Island Must Respond. - Meredith Sheehan, Guest MINDSETTER™

Meredith L. Sheehan, Guest MINDSETTER

Rhode Island is facing a growing public health crisis that too often remains invisible until it touches our own families.… Read More

3 Top RI Healthcare Leaders Warn “We're in a Crisis, We're Going to a Disaster.”

3 Top RI Healthcare Leaders Warn “We're in a Crisis, We're Going to a Disaster.”

Josh Fenton, CEO & co-founder

Three of the top leaders in Rhode Island’s healthcare system are hitting the panic button about an expanding healthcare… Read More

CVS Adds Top Washington Lawyers to Fight RICO Lawsuit Filed by Shekarchi

CVS Adds Top Washington Lawyers to Fight RICO Lawsuit Filed by Shekarchi

GoLocalProv News Team

As a result of a civil RICO lawsuit filed by Joseph Shekarchi as a private attorney against CVS, the RI-based healthcare… Read More

VIDEO: “They Wouldn’t Do This on Blackstone Boulevard” - South Providence Residents Blast “Greed of Developers”

VIDEO: “They Wouldn’t Do This on Blackstone Boulevard” - South Providence Residents Blast “Greed of Developers”

Kate Nagle, News Editor

A group of South Providence residents on Wednesday decried plans by a housing developer to build a seven-story parking… Read More

Purdue Pharma Settles With US Justice on Criminal Case for $5B; Sackler Family $7.4B Settlement Still Proceeding

Purdue Pharma Settles With US Justice on Criminal Case for $5B; Sackler Family $7.4B Settlement Still Proceeding

Josh Fenton, CEO & co-founder

There have been two major ongoing cases relating to the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma. One was resolved… Read More

Proposed 7-Story Brown Health Parking Garage Faces Neighborhood Opposition

Proposed 7-Story Brown Health Parking Garage Faces Neighborhood Opposition

Kate Nagle, News Editor

Community activists are holding a rally this week against a proposed multi-level parking garage by Brown University Health,… Read More

Rhode Island Nursing Homes Hit With Fines Over $100,000

Rhode Island Nursing Homes Hit With Fines Over $100,000

GoLocalProv News Team

There are 15 nursing homes in Rhode Island that have been fined more than $100,000. Read More