Weekend Spotlight Sept. 30, Come Meet the OneCranston HEZ on Sat., Sept. 30 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., at Cafe Ava, 48b Rolfe Square, Cranston. Want to lend your voice, connect with your …
Come join the community of Cranston High School East at their first Food Truck Night, Thursday, April 27, 5 – 8 p.m. Cranston East High School, 899 Park Ave, Cranston. In addition to the …
CITY OF CRANSTONCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT2023-2024 ANNUAL ACTION PLAN
The City of Cranston has drafted its 2023-2024 Annual Action Plan (AAP) for the Community Development Block Grant …
Will be hosting an EASTER EVENT on Saturday, April 8th, inside the Pastore Center at 155 Gansett Ave, Cranston, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Easter Bunny plans to visit. Photo opportunities will …
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
State Rep. Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung
Right now, two category five hurricanes are swirling inside Rhode Island s public health arena: the fire inside the Eleanor Slater Hospital system, and the opioid overdose epidemic. While seemingly unique situations, both of their answers lie in properly investing in the community-based mental & behavioral health infrastructure in our state.
The Eleanor Slater Hospital system s problems are enormously complex. While the Attorney General has stepped in to investigate, and hopefully will address concerns in regards to billing and patient classifications, our forward focus needs to start with listening to the hospital clinicians. They are screaming at the top of their lungs about discharge concerns because when you work with patients for a decade they become family, and these clinicians know there are not enough community mental health centers, day programs, or step-down level skilled nursing facilities that ca