Neronha, Brown University Health to Make 'Major' Primary Care Announcement

AG leverages regulatory review to tackle Rhode Island’s primary care shortage

Brown University Health CEO John Fernandez, left, and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, right, speak after a press conference at Neronha's Providence offices on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (Photo by Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current)Rhode Island’s largest health care system, Brown University Health, is poised to grow even larger by acquiring a 500-physician practice and taking on 40,000 new primary care patients over the next four years. …

Neronha, Brown University Health to make 'major' primary care announcement

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha and the head of the state's largest hospital group will hold a joint news conference Tuesday morning "to announce a major health care agreement." In an advisory, Neronha's office said Brown University Health President and CEO John Fernandez would join him to discuss steps "that will increase access to primary care for Rhode Islanders and will ensure primary care providers are better s…

Neronha, Brown health CEO to announce 'major healthcare agreement'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Attorney General Peter Neronha will join Brown University Health’s president and CEO John Fernandez to announce a “major healthcare agreement” today. The two haven’t shared more information on about the announcement, other than it will, quote, “Increase access to primary care for Rhode Islanders, and will ensure primary care providers are better supported and compensated.” That will be at 10 at the attorney general’s of…