The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) has awarded $42,000 in grants to 10 local groups to work on projects related to climate change education and community resilience, all aimed at helping communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from the adverse health effects of climate change.
Charlestown Elementary School will be providing bottled water to students and staff because high lead levels were detected in drinking water samples collected at the school on May 16th. The exceedances were identified at two taps in the school. Bottled water will be provided until corrective...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising consumers that Pinnacle Foods Inc. is recalling approximately 32,479 pounds of their Armour brand heat-treated, shelf-stable beef products due to a possible processing deviation that may have led to staphylococcal enterotoxin and...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) has alerted healthcare providers that the flu is no longer widespread in Rhode Island, which means that healthcare workers who have not been immunized against the flu are no longer required to wear surgical masks during direct patient contact.
The...
The Precautionary Boil Water Advisory that had been in place for Lakeview Charlestown Early Learning Center, located in Charlestown, has been lifted. The system was required to issue a Precautionary Boil Water Advisory because it lost pressure.
Before consuming water from this system again,...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising people to not consume two specific jarred products because of processing, storage, and control issues.
- Jarred, stuffed cherry peppers from 1302 Marketplace (1302 Atwood Avenue, Johnston) should not be consumed. The cherry peppers are...
Hundreds of Rhode Island teenagers held a Kick Butts Zombie Walk across downtown Providence today to call on leaders to raise the minimum legal age for all tobacco product sales to 21 and to take additional steps to help prevent tobacco-related disease and deaths.
The event culminated with a...
The Precautionary Boil Water Advisory that had been in place for the Coventry National Guard water system has been lifted. This system was required to issue a Precautionary Boil Water Advisory because the water system lost pressure.
Before consuming water from this system again, people should...
The Precautionary Boil Water Advisories that had been in place for Clark Memorial Library in Carolina and The Village on Chopmist Hill in Glocester have been lifted. These systems were required to issue Precautionary Boil Water Advisories because they lost pressure.
Before consuming water from...
The Precautionary Boil Water Advisory that had been in place for South Shore Mental Health Center, Inc., located in Charlestown, has been lifted. The system was required to issue a Precautionary Boil Water Advisory because it lost pressure.
Before consuming water from this system again, people...
