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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
R.I. health centers get crucial cash injection BY CASSIUS SHUMAN | Shuman@PBN.com
CULTURE SHIFT Offices in post-pandemic era likely will never be the same BY MARY MACDONALD | MacDonald@PBN.com
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MONTHS OF WORKING FROM HOME during the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Nee welcomed a return to the normal rhythms of a company office. His Boston-based financial advisory firm expanded in April into space leased from CIC Providence LLC in the Wexford Science & Technology building at 225 Dyer St. in Providence. On a recent day, Nee’s workplace had an air of normalcy to it. He conducted business without the distractions of his home life, which includes raising three young children, and he even held a consultation with a client from Narragansett inside his office. “Our average client is 65 years old,” said Nee, a co-owner SEE OFFICES
KAREN MAZZOLA HAD tears in her eyes when she administered Thundermist Health Center’s first COVID-19 vaccine shot late last year. “I was just overwhelmed with the feeling that this could be the beginning of the end” of the pandemic, said Mazzola, the Woonsocket center’s associate vice president of nursing. “In my whole career, I have never had a feeling like that come over me.”
FOCUS: HEALTH CARE
SEE INJECTION ALTERED VIBE: Peter Marino, left, CEO and president of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, talks with Rob Magnan, facilities and mail room coordinator at the insurer’s headquarters in Smithfield. Marino says only about 20 of Neighborhood’s 600 employees are working in the building now, but he hopes to get everybody back in the office eventually to restore the “fluid collaboration” and “family vibe” that existed before the pandemic. At right is security officer Jennifer Castellanos. PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM
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