Lynn Arditi

Rhode Island

Health Reporter at The Public's Radio

Health reporter @ThePublicsRadio. 2022 National Fellow @USCAnnenberg. [email protected]. anonymous tips: [email protected]

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Is South County Hospital’s escalating fight with critics alienating donors?

1 week ago | thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi

South County Hospital prides itself on being one of the few remaining independent hospitals in Rhode Island. But the hospital’s financial and staffing challenges are now compounded by its ongoing battle with a group of doctors and community members demanding leadership changes. The Public’s Radio’s Luis Hernandez spoke with health reporter Lynn Arditi about the escalating battle over South County Hospital.
Trump administration to cut $510 million in funding to Brown University

2 weeks ago | mainepublic.org | Lynn Arditi

The Trump administration plans to cut off more than a half billion dollars in federal funding to Brown University, White House officials reportedly told The Brown Daily Herald and several national news outlets onThursday. The Associated Press, CNN and The New York Times are among the national news outlets reporting the administration plans to block roughly $510 million federal contracts and grants for Brown, citing officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Trump CDC cuts will undermine response to outbreaks in Rhode Island, health officials say

3 weeks ago | thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi

The Trump administration’s abrupt termination this week of Rhode Island’s remaining $31 million in federal grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could significantly undermine the state’s ability to prevent and respond to infectious disease outbreaks, state health officials said Friday.
R.I. House passes bill to safeguard access to COVID-19 vaccines for children

4 weeks ago | thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi

The state House of Representatives this week approved legislation to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines for children in Rhode Island even if the Trump administration rolls back federal approvals. The House voted 58-10 to approve a bill (H-5427A) to allow pharmacists to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to children age 3 or older.
Early career scientists in Rhode Island consider leaving the U.S.

4 weeks ago | wbur.org | Lynn Arditi

Most workday mornings, Eddie Cascella is too busy to get depressed about his career. From behind the counter at The Coffee Exchange on the East Side of Providence, the 26-year-old environmental scientist serves bags of coffee beans to a steady stream of customers. “Would you like that ground or whole bean?” he asks each customer. But in quieter moments at work, his mind tends to wander. “And I just think about what could have been…or what [has] been totally derailed,” he said in an interview.
Early career scientists in Rhode Island consider leaving the U.S.

1 month ago | mainepublic.org | Lynn Arditi

Most workday mornings, Eddie Cascella is too busy to get depressed about his career. From behind the counter at The Coffee Exchange on the East Side of Providence, the 26-year-old environmental scientist serves bags of coffee beans to a steady stream of customers. “Would you like that ground or whole bean?” he asks each customer. But in quieter moments at work, his mind tends to wander. “And I just think about what could have been…or what [has] been totally derailed,’’ he said in an interview.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of R.I. reports job cuts and operating losses

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has announced plans to reduce its workforce by 3% amid reports of ongoing operating losses. The job cuts will impact about 30 of its 946 full-time equivalent employees in Rhode Island, the company said in a statement released earlier this week. The jobs cuts’ primary “focus” is on leadership roles, Rich Salit, a BCBSRI spokesman, said Friday.
Cuts to jobs and research funding mount in Rhode Island’s academic sciences

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi

Sarah Gaines worried something was up when she and her colleagues at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography got called into a morning meeting last Thursday. The Ivy-league educated scientist lives with her husband and two school-age children in Narragansett. And she leads a project in marine conservation in Madagascar. But Gaines, 46, said that nothing in her career had prepared her for what happened last week.
Rhode Island health centers raise alarm over proposed Medicaid cuts

1 month ago | thepublicsradio.org | Lynn Arditi

Famous homeowners like Taylor Swift have helped polish the image of Westerly, R.I. But the tony image belies a harsher reality for the year-round folks in this beach town. More than one in five of the town’s roughly 23,100 residents – close to 5,000 people – are enrolled in Medicaid, the government insurance program for people with low-incomes or disabilities, according to the latest monthly report released by the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Stimulant users are caught in fatal ‘fourth wave’ of opioid epidemic

Jan 14, 2025 | dailynews.com | Lynn Arditi

A middle-aged man smokes crack cocaine in Rhode Island. The state had the country’s fourth-highest rate of overdose deaths involving cocaine in 2022. (Lynn Arditi/The Public’s Radio/TNS)Jennifer Dubois, a single mother, lost her son Cliffton in 2021 to an overdose at age 19. The counterfeit Adderall pill he consumed contained the powerful opioid fentanyl.