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Richard Asinof

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Email: Asinof@convergenceri.com

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Richard Asinof is the founder and editor of ConvergenceRI, an online subscription newsletter offering news and analysis at the convergence of health, science, technology and innovation in Rhode Island.

Culture war on Rhode Island’s behavioral health infrastructure – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 28, 2023

The big Medicaid eligibility test: Recertifying 1/3 of Rhode Island residents – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 21, 2023

Legislation proposes $200M to increase Medicaid rates in Rhode Island – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 14, 2023

Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha

Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha, public health advocate – part two – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 7, 2023

AG Peter Neronha

Rhode Island Attorney General Neronha sounds the alarm – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 28, 2023

Homeless in RI: On hoping to jumpstart action – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 21, 2023

BCBS of Rhode Island’s CEO Martha Wofford on the pulse of healthcare – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 14, 2023

Eviction of Community Care Alliance and MAP Behavioral Health moving forward – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 7, 2023

Mended Little Hearts – Toby Simon

By Richard Asinof | Jan 31, 2023

United Way: translating data into action – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jan 17, 2023

Rhode Island’s co-dependence upon Optum is not optimal – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Dec 13, 2022

Smithfield motel leased for $1.44M for new homeless shelter approach – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Nov 29, 2022

Women leaders in healthcare – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Nov 22, 2022

Providence City Council to decide on Lamar proposal to electrify billboard – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Nov 15, 2022

Shelter from the storm – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Nov 8, 2022

Environmental storytelling – Rachel Carson was right! – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Oct 18, 2022

Lessons in survival and resilience, mountains beyond mountains. Haiti

By Richard Asinof | Oct 11, 2022

Common ground on the road to shelter for those in need – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Oct 4, 2022

RI Health Insurance Commissioner talks “next generation” standards – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 27, 2022

Messaging the high cost of healthcare in RI – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 20, 2022

Celebrating recovery and finding a path toward jobs – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 13, 2022

Reforming Rhode Island government’s human services safety net – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 6, 2022

In the gathering storm on climate, how do we act together? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 30, 2022

A kick in the gas – Rhode Island Energy rate increase – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 23, 2022

Part 3: Providence Mayoral forum with recovery community – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 16, 2022

Providence Mayoral Forum: speaking to, and with, the recovery community – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 9, 2022

Political season lacks gusto – what are the questions when it comes to our health? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 2, 2022

“ER Doc” Elizabeth Goldberg on leaving Rhode Island. A place to thrive – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jul 26, 2022

A deep dive into RI’s Blue Economy – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jul 12, 2022

CODAC buys new building for its headquarters – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jul 5, 2022

Updated Q&A: The new Lifespan and Commonwealth Care Alliance partnership – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jun 28, 2022

The long goodbye – exit interview with RI Foundation’s Neil Steinberg – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jun 21, 2022

Ortho RI: Where care is patient-centric – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jun 14, 2022

Beyond decoration – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 31, 2022

Changing the dynamics around public safety, mental health – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 24, 2022

COVID symptoms different in older patients – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 17, 2022

Unsteady start for RI’s Opioid Settlement Advisory Council – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 3, 2022

A talk with Kristin Sousa, new director of the RI Medicaid office – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Apr 26, 2022

Do the rest of us all live off Hope? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Apr 19, 2022

Health Care Workforce Summit – what was said, who attended, who was missing – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Apr 12, 2022

A conversation: How to improve care at nursing homes in RI – Richard Asinof

By RINewsToday | Apr 5, 2022

RI Moms PRN and Pedi PRN teleconsultation network empowers primary care providers – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 29, 2022

The rites of spring brings the RI budget process – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 22, 2022

Women & Infants capital campaign will touch 4 of 5 Rhode Island families – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 15, 2022

Sharing our stories: The courage within, with Peter Simon – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 8, 2022

Remembering Dr. Paul Farmer – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 1, 2022

Getting to no… rejecting the Lifespan, Care New England merger application – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 22, 2022

What really happened to human services in RI – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 15, 2022

Addressing a failed system – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 1, 2022

News media’s critical, in-depth reporting on state budget lacking – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jan 25, 2022

Why did Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott resign abruptly in the middle of a pandemic? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jan 18, 2022

Providence Water faces civil rights complaint over disproportionate lead exposure risk – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jan 11, 2022

RI health and human services depleted, silos worse in 15 years under EOHHS umbrella – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jan 4, 2022

No bankruptcy protection for Sackler family, Purdue Pharma – “We fight on” – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Dec 21, 2021

Dr. McDonald’s rules to live by: Love one another. Don’t be a jerk. COVID, year 3 – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Dec 14, 2021

When low Medicaid rates create a break glass emergency – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Dec 7, 2021

Under the radar in a Rhode Island parallel consultant universe – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Nov 16, 2021

Rhode Island’s myopic media lens. Eds and Meds, The Link, success and failure – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Nov 9, 2021

15 years later, did RI’s health and human services consolidation work? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Nov 2, 2021

Too many will be left out in the cold – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Oct 26, 2021

It’s a “no” for asphalt grinding on Atwells Avenue, 250 feet from health center serving 8,000 – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Oct 19, 2021

Dr. Elizabeth Lange, pediatrician, RI Medical Society president – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Oct 16, 2021

Getting the lead out of drinking water in RI – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Oct 5, 2021

Will $1.1 billion be enough to rescue RI? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 28, 2021

Digital news media takes its place – and holds it. ConvergenceRI at 8 years – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 21, 2021

RI Health Care Assoc: Nursing homes chronically under-funded by state – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 14, 2021

John Tassoni’s RecoveryTV RI debuts in National Recovery Month – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Sep 7, 2021

Women & Infants faces a financial conundrum – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 31, 2021

Creating the on-ramp for better jobs and lives at the Genesis Center – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 17, 2021

Q & A with Patrick Tigue, RI’s Health Insurance Commissioner – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 10, 2021

Finding common ground in affordable housing – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 3, 2021

Providence Resiliency Partnership – infrastructure and climate change – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jul 27, 2021

Neglect in Rhode Island’s behavioral health facilities – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jul 20, 2021

Providence schools: Everything is broken – 2 years ago – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jul 6, 2021

Martha L. Wofford, new Pres/CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI: next steps – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jun 29, 2021

RI’s Anya Rader Wallack goes to Vermont, with astute insights on healthcare – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jun 22, 2021

Governor McKee encounters “speed bumps” in governing – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jun 15, 2021

Exposing the pitfalls in private equity financing of hospitals – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Jun 8, 2021

A life well lived by a pioneering pediatrician – by Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 25, 2021

Giving consumers ownership of their energy choices – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 18, 2021

The push for a tax on sugary drinks in RI – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 11, 2021

As the health care industry turns… – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | May 4, 2021

Wanna bet on it? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Apr 27, 2021

An Earth Day Imagine: Plant 5,000 trees, in 5 years, in 02905 – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Apr 22, 2021

A sea change in Newport – and in RI – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Apr 13, 2021

RI Foundation meeting the demand, when there’s an incredible amount of need – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 23, 2021

Where is the urgency to clean up toxic Allens Avenue? – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 16, 2021

Schools near highways: Open windows let toxic pollutants in – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 9, 2021

The power is yours – not yet. Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Mar 2, 2021

A beautiful day in the neighborhood – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 23, 2021

Just the two of us

By Richard Asinof | Feb 15, 2021

Weaponizing the data on suicide & mental health among RI students – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 9, 2021

Ana Novais, new role as Assistant Sect., RI EOHHS – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Feb 2, 2021

More than nostalgia – by Toby Simon

By Richard Asinof | Jan 26, 2021

In health care, follow the money – ConvergenceRI

By Richard Asinof | Jan 19, 2021

The interview that never happened – by ConvergenceRI

By Richard Asinof | Jan 12, 2021

What we talk about when we talk about recovery

By Richard Asinof | Jan 5, 2021

To make a beautiful thing happen, even in quarantine – Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Dec 15, 2020

OrthoRI moves ahead with new facility opening in Warwick

By Richard Asinof | Dec 8, 2020

Are you OK? – by Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Dec 1, 2020

How Rhode Islanders see themselves, during a time of COVID

By Richard Asinof | Nov 24, 2020

Migraines – the invisible illness

By Richard Asinof | Nov 17, 2020

Trouble ahead, trouble behind…

By Richard Asinof | Nov 3, 2020

RI Foundation tackles racial disparities with $8.5M Equity Leadership Initiative

By Richard Asinof | Oct 20, 2020

Vermont’s failed Medicare for All effort

By Richard Asinof | Oct 13, 2020

Pandemic causes 38% decrease in Lead Screening for our children

By Richard Asinof | Oct 6, 2020

Steady wins the race? EpiVax’s vaccine hopeful

By Richard Asinof | Sep 29, 2020

Reopening of schools: Conflicting narratives

By Richard Asinof | Sep 22, 2020

Telehealth is redefining the office visit and patient relationships

By Richard Asinof | Sep 16, 2020

Sun Salute – Shri Yoga’s Sunrise Yoga

By Richard Asinof | Sep 8, 2020

Improving care for mothers and infants in Rhode Island

By Richard Asinof | Sep 1, 2020

RI’s conundrum of how best to reopen schools

By Richard Asinof | Aug 25, 2020

We travel the spaceways, from crisis to crisis – by Richard Asinof

By Richard Asinof | Aug 18, 2020

The office visit is a dinosaur

By Richard Asinof | Aug 11, 2020

What we have here is a failure to communicate

By Richard Asinof | Jul 28, 2020

TOP Convergence RI STORY of 2020: Parents/teachers left out of back-to-school decision making?

By Richard Asinof | Jul 21, 2020

Making the local news media irrelevant

By Richard Asinof | Jul 7, 2020

TAP more marketing exercise than strategy for Providence schools

By Richard Asinof | Jun 30, 2020

The future of telehealth in the delivery of health care

By Richard Asinof | Jun 23, 2020

What nursing homes can teach us about health care in a post-pandemic world

By Richard Asinof | Jun 9, 2020

The pandemic’s silver linings playbook – hope for recovery as the economy reopens

By Richard Asinof | Jun 2, 2020

What does it mean these days when the doctor is calling?

By Richard Asinof | May 29, 2020

A good “news” story – saving newspapers

By Richard Asinof | May 26, 2020

Rebuilding trust in a post-pandemic world

By Richard Asinof | May 19, 2020

Risky business in a post-pandemic world

By Richard Asinof | May 12, 2020

Will we be afraid to go back into the water?

By Richard Asinof | May 5, 2020

Reunions in the time of pandemic

By Richard Asinof | Apr 21, 2020

To be able to ask a question, that is the issue

By Richard Asinof | Apr 14, 2020

RI’s CODAC revamps its delivery model in time of pandemic

By Richard Asinof | Mar 24, 2020

Breaking up with Facebook was not so hard to do

By Richard Asinof | Mar 5, 2020

What will it take to improve Rhode Island schools?

By Richard Asinof | Feb 25, 2020

Will the RI health care industry willingly give up its economic power?

By Richard Asinof | Feb 18, 2020

Creating “harm reduction centers” in RI?

By Richard Asinof | Feb 4, 2020

RI Advocacy groups promoting 2020 priorities

By Richard Asinof | Jan 28, 2020

Is this what success looks like? Hope’s ELL needs and teacher staffing

By Richard Asinof | Jan 21, 2020

We are not the dumpster

By Richard Asinof | Jan 14, 2020

The path to opportunity begins at the front door of your home

By Richard Asinof | Dec 24, 2019

What happens when a hub of innovation goes dark?

By Richard Asinof | Dec 17, 2019

Talking with R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha

By Richard Asinof | Dec 3, 2019

We build houses, community, and lives

By Richard Asinof | Nov 19, 2019

2019 Childhood Lead Action Project’s Community Hero Awards

By Richard Asinof | Nov 12, 2019

In goes the bad air…

By Richard Asinof | Nov 12, 2019

1 in 3 RI households are facing housing cost crisis

By Richard Asinof | Nov 5, 2019

Taking the pulse of Rhode Island life

By Richard Asinof | Oct 29, 2019

RI has the 2nd highest rate of MS in the country

By Richard Asinof | Oct 15, 2019

Matchmaker, matchmaker, find me a find, catch me a catch – Hospital Mergers in RI

By Richard Asinof | Sep 17, 2019

Mindfulness moves into the health, education mainstream

By Richard Asinof | Sep 17, 2019

Interviewing Toni Morrison in 1976

By Richard Asinof | Aug 8, 2019

An interview with Dr. Frances Gallo

By Richard Asinof | Aug 6, 2019

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