A laptop stolen in 2017 contained protected information including the names, medical record numbers, demographic information, and medication information of 20,431 patients.
Lynn Arditi
Lynn joined The Public's Radio as health reporter in 2017 after more than three decades as a journalist, including 28 years at The Providence Journal. Her series "A 911 Emergency," a project of the 2019 ProPublica Local Reporting Network, won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award in the radio/podcast category in 2020.
A native of New York City, she graduated from Oberlin College and landed her first journalism job at The Center for Investigative Reporting (now known as Reveal) in Washington, D.C., where she did story development for 60 Minutes. When the T.V. market imploded in 1987, the D.C. office of CIR closed and within a year she moved to Massachusetts to take a reporting job at the former Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, a small daily newspaper.
A year later, she moved to Providence, R.I. to work at The Providence Journal. There, she worked for several years as a bureau reporter covering schools and local issues, before she began covering statewide beats including higher education, the economy, housing and health care. During those years, she also honed her skills in narrative journalism, and served as chairwoman of the newspaper’s writing committee. Her work has been recognized by New England Associated Press News Executives Association and the Society of American Business Editors & Writers.
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Bill to mandate minimum staffing levels in nursing homes heads to the Senate floor
The bill introduced by Senator Maryellen Goodwin would require all state licensed nursing homes to provide each resident with 4.10 hours of direct nursing care per day.
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Dental check-up: If you haven’t seen a dentist since before the coronavirus pandemic, here’s what you need to know
In Rhode Island, as in Massachusetts and Connecticut, there are lots of guidelines but few mandates about how to practice dentistry during the pandemic. But one thing is clear: If the dentist is doing things right, your next visit should feel anything but routine.
Posted inPolitics
A night of flames and fury
It would be easy to dismiss the agitators and looters who destroyed so much in Providence the night of June 1 as outside provocateurs. The reality is more complicated.
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Nursing home workers, union leaders, demand lawmakers support “safe staffing” legislation.
Raise The Bar, a coalition of nursing home caregivers led by union organizers, is urging Rhode Island lawmakers to support legislation that would set minimum staffing levels in nursing homes.
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Nursing Home on Providence’s East Side closing, citing ongoing financial problems and coronavirus pandemic
Rhode Island’s nursing home industry has claimed its first financial casualty of the coronavirus pandemic with the closing of a financially-ailing 57-bed nursing home on Providence’s East Side.
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Hundreds line the road into Barrington to protest police brutality and racial injustice
Wearing masks and holding up signs that read “Black Lives Matter,’’ the protesters — many of them parents with children — were greeted with honks and cheers by passing motorists.
Posted inArticle, Newport Bureau, Politics
Thousands march in Newport for racial justice
Saturday’s protest, organized by Black Lives Matter Rhode Island, drew people of all ages, including parents with young children and seniors, who carried signs, chanted, listened to speakers and sang songs.
Posted inArticle, Health
Protesting in the age of coronavirus. What’s the risk?
In Providence, protests were peaceful. No confrontations with police. No tear gas. No forced physical contact that could pose obvious risks to those involved. So what’s the risk?
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CVS Health to open 10 new drive-thru coronavirus test sites in RI
Rhode Island’s new drive-thru sites are among 1,000 around the country — including 26 in Massachusetts — that CVS plans to open by the end of this month.
