A new mural brightens the side of the Open Door Health clinic while honoring the people important to the artist and the community. “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” by renowned queer artist Brian Kenny is a tribute to the the trans and queer communities served by Open Door Health. Interlaced throughout this complex work, …
This additional tidbit concerning the fresh air movement in Providence did not fold neatly into my prior piece on the topic, but I just could not let go of the words “baby camp.” This being Providence, a quick search of the address on Williams Street yielded enough interesting recent history to earn the Edward Carrington …
(10.15) More proof that we have become a third world country. A screening of the documentary Giving Birth In America will be followed by a conversation with Every Mother Counts founder Christy Turlington Burns. The movie examines the issues that have contributed to the maternal health crisis in the United States, where women are more …
Attention young healthy people: Your status as a young healthy person is highly contingent. Unless of course you never drive a car, cross the street, ski, slice a bagel . . . plus, cancer is no respecter of age. Your life could go all pear-shaped in the blink of an eye and you will be …
(9.23) The Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition (RIPAC) will host their annual Medical Cannabis Festival this Saturday at the Bell Street Chapel. This is a time for the community to come together, have some fun, good food & music. Get a bargain from Organic Grow Hut or Puffins Smoke Shop, just to name a couple. Win door …
(9.30) Dr. Peter Kramer — author of “Listening to Prozac” and a member of the Brown Medical School faculty — will discuss his new book “Ordinarily Well” this Friday as part of the Providence Athenaeum Salon Series. Book sale and signing will follow. A practicing doctor who trained as a psychotherapist and worked with pioneers …
(12.2) A team from HealthSourceRI will be at Rochambeau Library today to help with enrollment. The Providence Community Library website says this event ends at 5:45pm. Yesterday’s email from HealthSourceRI says 7pm. It is suggested you bring: A Photo ID (driver’s license or passport) Your HealthSource RI username and password Any recent HealthSource RI or …
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Despite extensions announced earlier this week by federal authorities, the deadline for individuals and families selecting a new plan through HealthSourceRI is still Monday, March 31st. HealthSourceRI spokeswoman Dara Chadwick spoke with the Providence Journal, Chadwick said the state will still use federal guidelines to create special provisions for those unable to enroll by March …
By now most people have heard of this effort by the Obama administration to get the young invisibles on board with HealthCare.gov. (Here in Rhode Island go to the state-run exchange HealthSourceRI). In case you have yet to watch Zach Galianfinakis interview Obama on Between Two Ferns, take six minutes now. Click on image. Between …
(12.2) Need health insurance? Come to Thee Red Fez at 5:30pm on Monday, December 2nd to learn about your new health insurance options through HealthSource RI. On HealthSource RI, single people can earn up to about $46,000 a year and get a tax credit to help them purchase health insurance. Single people earning under about …
The Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center is open for business. The amusing names attached to certain cannabis strains may tend to undermine their image as serious medicine but this nomenclature has been evolving over many years and in no way diminishes the validity of the treatment. Plant taxonomy in general is full of sly references …
The headline says it all “Blue Cross seeking hefty rate increase.” According to today’s Providence Journal, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is proposing 2014 premium increases averaging 18 percent for individuals and 15 percent for small groups. The rates, the largest increases requested by Blue Cross in recent years, must be approved …
(5.1) Sorry to be late on this one. Ocean State Action has called for a rally in the State House rotunda, Gender rating is the industry practice of health insurers charging women higher premiums than men. This is outright gender discrimination, and RI must outlaw this practice now! Urge the General Assembly to pass H-7512/S-2208. …
Another installment of ‘Opera in Cinema,’ this time it is La Bohème by Puccini from the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Four young artists live out their everyday lives amid dreams and disappointments, waiting for the event that is to win them renown, but poverty and misfortune deprive the leading characters — Mimì and …
Kudos to Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner Christopher F. Koller; it would appear that he has heard the desperate chorus of voices from the direct payer cohort. Not only has Koller issued an order lowering the effective overall average* rate for the Direct Pay plan by 1.1 percent, but according to the Providence Business News, …
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[Address Correction: The hearings are being held at the RIPUC at 89 Jefferson Boulevard, Warwick. The address below is that of the OHIC. Apologies for this error and the inconvenience it may have caused. BC] The Rhode Island Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner (OHIC) has scheduled a public hearing regarding a petition by Blue …
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