Boys and Girls Club de Puerto Rico, Fundación de Esclerosis Múltiples de Puerto Rico, Inc., and Humanitarian Assistance Cooperative Housing Foundation will split close to $398,000 from United for Puerto Rico, a private nonprofit organization established after Hurricane Irma to fundraise for devastated island communities.
MMM Healthcare LLC H4004, a coordinated care HMO program, recently achieved a 4.5 out of the 5-star rating in the 2018 Medicare Quality Rating Program of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Orlando González, president of MMM announced.
Destilería Serrallés Inc., producer of Don Q rums, has resumed its production and export operations after a brief disruption caused by Hurricane María’s path through Puerto Rico, the company confirmed.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the government of Puerto Rico announced that Transitional Sheltering Assistance is available to Puerto Ricans who are unable to return to their homes because they are displaced as a result of Hurricanes Irma and María.
Two generators, part of a $35.1 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, began providing up to a combined 50 megawatts of electricity Oct. 30, 2017, to the Palo Seco power plant near San Juan, the agency announced.
The government’s decision to cancel the contentious $300 million contract with Montana-based Whitefish Energy will set back restoring Puerto Rico’s power fully by about four months, Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Executive Director Ricardo Ramos said Sunday.
Direct Relief, which for the past eight years has been supporting a network of nonprofit community health centers in Puerto Rico, delivered $21 million in medicines and medical products to the island over the weekend, the company confirmed.
Sacred Heart University in Santurce, in partnership with the Faculty Resource Network, New York University (NYU) and the University of Cincinnati, has developed an online program, free of charge, for university students who were affected by Hurricane María.
In the face of the crisis that Puerto Rico has suffered after Hurricane María, software development company Rock Solid Technologies opened its doors to municipal governments and private clients to use its accounting systems to perform tasks, such as: payroll, purchase orders, disbursements, requisitions and accounts payable, the company confirmed.
Returning to the status quo that existed prior to Hurricane María will not be enough for Puerto Rico: the island must seek to leapfrog into a renewed development platform, generating a profound retooling and modernization of its productive and institutional infrastructure.
The wake of destruction left by Hurricane María demanded a refocusing on the part of Triple-S to address the pressing needs of its most vulnerable patients, providers, insured groups and communities, company officials said.
Future Farm Technologies Inc. announced Thursday a joint venture between Future Farm and TCG Investments, LLC, owners of the Clínica Verde brand of medical cannabis dispensaries to open five locations in Puerto Rico.
TOTE Maritime, through its partnerships with diverse organizations and individuals such as Monica Puig and the American Red Cross, is playing a leading role in the delivery of relief cargo to Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s population will dip under 3 million within a year — for the first time since the mid-1970s — if current rates of emigration continue, warns Jenniffer González-Colón, the island’s resident commissioner in Washington.
The impact of the back-to-back hurricanes — Irma and María — on the island has pushed Puerto Rico to “finally hit bottom,” said José Rafael Fernández, CEO of Oriental Financial Group Wednesday, upon announcing the bank’s third quarter results.
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