A new program, “Prevent AD: The Rhode Island Alzheimer Prevention Registry,” is being launched in a collaboration between Rhode Island Hospital’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center, Butler Hospital’s Aging and Memory Program, and Memorial Hospital’s Center for Primary Care and Prevention. more

One of the major talent pipelines bringing a steady stream of young doctors to Rhode Island is the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington. Twelve graduates – more than 10 percent of its 2012 graduating class of 110 – accepted residencies at hospitals in Providence, many choosing a primary care career path. more

Welcome to Providence Business News’ inaugural Healthiest Employers program special section. In these pages you will find out a little about some of the state’s most enlightened companies, ones that take the needs of the employees very seriously, and as a result, deliver better products and services to their customers. more

Preventure is a health-improvement company that knows how to take its own medicine. more

Seven years ago, West Warwick-based West View Health Care Center, the nursing and rehabilitation center, had just received a cautioning from its health insurer. more

When University Medicine Foundation, a medical practice employing about 200 physicians and 110 support staff, met recently with its representative from Health Advocate, the third-party administrator of its wellness program, the group was pleasantly surprised to learn that “no other client was as active as we were.” This, despite the fact that the firm’s wellness program was only a year old, said Tammy Lederer, University Medicine’s chief human resources officer. more

Art Greenwood lost 30 pounds. more

On the walking track outside its corporate headquarters on Royal Little Drive in Providence, employees of AAA Southern New England can frequently be seen engaging in the company’s latest wellness challenge – a walking event – in which more than 725 of the firm’s 1,500 employees are participating. Pedometers, so they can measure their progress, are provided through UnitedHealthcare of New England, the self-insured company’s partner in its wellness program. The goal is have employees take 10,000 steps a day. more

Care New England’s commitment to wellness begins at the top. more

For the past three years, Lifespan, the state’s largest health care-services provider, has stressed one thing to its employees: know your numbers. It has nothing to do with sales, output or operating costs, but refers to an attitude that the company states is part of its DNA: health. more