Rhode Island has a shortage of primary care providers. Could a medical school ensure a primary care workforce for the state?

PROVIDENCE – On paper, Rhode Island’s primary care landscape looks healthy. The Ocean State ranks in the top five states for health care overall and fourth for primary care supply. These numbers, ...

Increasing reimbursement rates and expanding training programs are a few ways to shore up care, write R.I. doctors.

Predicting the future isn't easy. Back in 2000, who would have thought that by 2025 the Pawtucket Red Sox would no longer exist, or Rhode Island's first female governor would be telling people to ...

For more than two decades, PACE Rhode Island has been quietly transforming the way older adults receive care—allowing ...

Rhode Island has kept health care spending growth in check better than Massachusetts and Connecticut, but that's coming at the expense of hospitals and health care providers' bottom lines, data from a ...

PROVIDENCE – With Rhode Island facing an "alarming" primary care doctor shortage, hospitals and nursing homes struggling to stay staffed and dentists in the long line of medical professionals ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island lawmakers met with health care professionals Tuesday to discuss ways to tackle the ongoing shortage of primary care physicians statewide. The discussions took ...

Urgent care centers have become popular because they offer accessibility as Rhode Island is grappling with a shortage of primary care physicians.

Most states used managed care arrangements to deliver health benefits to their Medicaid beneficiaries, where state agencies contract with insurers and pay them per-member per-month rates. Contract ...

Child care is essential: It provides quality learning opportunities for young children, gets families to work, benefits employers, and strengthens the state’s economy Many Rhode Islanders are ...