A $14.3 billion Rhode Island budget for next year won House passage on June 17 with a new tax on high-end vacation homes and a financial boost for health care providers.

Fire safety inspections, complaints and even reports about violent incidents in RI nursing homes are all publicly available.

Rhode Island this month became the latest state to reconsider its nursing home staffing minimum, lowering its hourly standards and waving what providers say could have been more than $500 million ...

As heat surges, RI has two drownings in local ponds. What to know. Divers who recovered a body from a pond in Lincoln, then searched a pond in Smithfield, where they recovered a body ...

The owners of six Villa nursing homes in Michigan have reached a $4.5 million settlement with the federal government and the state of Michigan to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit alleging they had ...

Some 579 nursing homes would be at “elevated risk” of closure if Medicaid cuts proposed in a 10-year budget reconciliation bill become law, according to a new Brown University analysis ...

RI needs immediate help on health care As a third-year medical student training in Rhode Island, I witness every day how hard it’s becoming for patients to access care. Physicians are leaving ...

“Isolate and control” was the focus of firefighters at the 182,000 square foot skilled-care nursing and memory care facility, said Enterprise Fire Department Battalion Chief Bryan Turner as ...

Melani Sanders, 46, created the viral 'We Do Not Care' virtual club for women experiencing the apathy and rage of perimenopause and menopause.

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