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A continuing care retirement community (CCRC), [1] [2] sometimes known as a life plan community, is a type of retirement community in the U.S. where a continuum of aging care needs—from independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care—can all be met within the community. [3]
The Executive Office of Health and Human Services is a cabinet-level agency in Rhode Island. [1] The current EOHHS Secretary is Womazetta Jones. EOHHS was created by the Rhode Island General Assembly in 2006 and is codified in Title 42 Chapter 7.2 of the R.I. General Laws. The agency serves as an umbrella organization for Rhode Island's ...
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The Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island (also known as Fogarty Hospital) is a private rehabilitation hospital at 116 Eddie Dowling Highway (Route 146A) in the Park Square area of North Smithfield, Rhode Island and with another unit, Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The Rehabilitation Hospital "is the only free-standing ...
The Texas-based company, which licensed its alarm-monitoring and security services to Brinks Home Security, announced that it would lay off 81 Rhode Island employees. Notice date: Jan. 4.
Thus, Rhode Island towns have the form, if not the substance, of home rule, with powers comparable to those that a city in other states would normally have. Rhode Island state law does not distinguish between a city and a town. Cities are simply municipalities that acquired their charter through a special act of the Rhode Island General Assembly.
The state was officially named the "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" when it declared statehood in 1790. Over time it became commonly known as simply "Rhode Island". The General Assembly voted in 2009 to hold a referendum in November 2010 on removing "and Providence Plantations" from the official name.
William Harris (1610-1681) was one of the four men with Roger Williams at Seekonk in the Plymouth Colony during the winter of 1636. He then joined Williams and several families in establishing the settlement of Providence Plantations which became a part of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.