Category : Health

COVID-19 Vaccines and Booster Doses Available at Local Clinics Throughout Rhode Island PROVIDENCE, RI – The McKee Administration today announced the community based COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, February 5. Community based COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held Saturday, February 5 in Harrisville, Lincoln, Newport, Smithfield, Warwick, Providence, South Kingstown, Cranston, Central Falls, and Chepachet. Registration […]Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, together with HealthSource RI (HSRI), announces that his FY2023 budget and State Fiscal Recovery Fund spending plan includes an initiative to help many Rhode Islanders as they transition from the state’s Medicaid program to commercial health coverage through HSRI. This initiative would enable HSRI to automatically transition some Rhode Islanders […]Read More

On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its full approval to US pharmaceutical company Moderna ‘s COVID-19 vaccine , to be marketed under the name Spikevax. The vaccine has been widely distributed in the United States and around the world under FDA emergency use authorization since December 2020. It has already been approved for use in […]Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Rhode Island’s small businesses and working families need relief from increasing health care costs. In his budget proposal that was filed with the General Assembly last week, Governor Dan McKee is proposing the creation of a Health Spending Accountability and Transparency Program intended to significantly strengthen accountability for health care cost growth by […]Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – This morning, Governor Dan McKee joined Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, and city and town officials to announce funding recovered from opioids distributors that will be used to address Rhode Island’s opioids crisis. In January 2018, then-Lt. Governor McKee led the effort to organize […]Read More