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Providence bets on machine-learning, consolidating data centers Print Providence will lean on technology to help recover from the financial damage the COVID-19 pandemic wrought on the Renton, Wash.-based health system, according to it management team speaking at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. At the end of Providence's most recent third quarter on Sept. 30, the health system recorded a $214 million operating loss, with a decline in patient admissions and increase in labor costs impacting its 54 hospitals and more than 1,000 medical clinics. Over the next two years, interim Chief Fina...

Wicked Local As the Wellesley Chamber of Commerce prepares to join forces with the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber next month, The Wellesley Townsman asked its president, Greg Reibman, about the future of that organization and its present and future members. WT: Twenty years ago, smaller chambers of commerce were very different entities. They tended to focus on local projects, tax issues and ribbon-cuttings. Today, the business climate is far more challenging, especially since the arrival of the pandemic. Have local chambers been able to keep up with the needs of their business members, or...

Staff report Wellesley Townsman The Wellesley Chamber of Commerce will become part of the Newton-Needham Regional Chamber as of Jan. 4. Members of the Wellesley Chamber will be invited to join the NNRC, according to a  Wellesley Chamber's Board of Directors' announcement, "and we will work with the NNRC leadership to make certain that all Wellesley businesses and nonprofits have a loud and clear voice. This innovative arrangement will create synergy, offer strength and amplify impact." A Wellesley subcommittee will be devoted exclusively to Wellesley interests and ultimately participation...

CHRIS VETTER Eau Claire Leader-Telegram When Mike Cohoon began working on plans for tiny homes — portable homeless shelters — he envisioned a long-term plan of creating the “Hope Village,” bringing the tiny homes into one central location, which would also include a permanent building that features showers and bathrooms. That plan is moving closer to reality. Cohoon, a pastor at Landmark Christian Church in Lake Hallie, said his group is planning to purchase a former dental office at 1825 Kennedy Road on the East Hill of Chippewa Falls. The tiny homes would be ...

It's been more than a year since the Wayne County Commission voted to approve the sale of two historic mills in Hines Park. Since then, one of the proposed users has decided to back out from moving forward. Citing costs at the site, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, the community art center proposed by the Plymouth-based Art Foundation will no longer occupy the Wilcox Mill at 230 Wilcox in Plymouth. "For the business model that we proposed, the project combined with the economic impact of the pandemic, just became unfeasible," Greg Hoffman, executive director of the Art Foundation, said.  Th...