PROVIDENCE – The impending closure of Anchor Medical Associates, a primary care physician group with three locations in Rhode Island, is raising alarms across Rhode Island’s health care system.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Changes are gradually unfolding at Rhode Island’s State House to erase the words “Providence Plantations” in some spots. It’s been nearly four years since ...

Instead of making a list of places where Providence Plantations is permanently written, officials compiled a list of where it could be easily removed.

Rhode Island Health Department spokesman Joseph Wendelken told The Providence Journal that unvaccinated health care workers are at a "greater individual risk" given the number of COVID-positive ...

Rhode Island opened an option for COVID-positive health care workers to continue working in hospitals if the facility is facing a staffing crisis.

Amid a swift surge in cases and hospitalizations, Rhode Island announced new COVID-19 measures Wednesday.

In 2020, Rhode Islanders voted to remove “Providence Plantations” from the state’s official name. While the words disappeared from websites and paperwork, it’s harder to strip them out ...

Rhode Island dropped "Providence Plantations" from its name a year ago, but not from its buildings. Providence Plantations is written in the script in marble near the State House dome and on ...

Rhode Island was incorporated as The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when it declared statehood in 1790. In 2010, nearly eight in 10 voters rejected the shorter name in a referendum.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island dropped “Providence Plantations” from its name a year ago, but not from its buildings. Providence Plantations is written in the script in marble near the ...