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For Your Family and Friends

Patient Condition Reports

Our patient information desk will gladly inform those family members and friends who cannot visit about your condition. The phone number is 401-444-5421. For patients in specialty care units, please ask to be connected to the unit. Out of respect for patient confidentiality, only general condition information will be given (e.g., good, stable, critical). If you prefer that absolutely no information be given out, please notify the admitting center at 401-444-5566.

Visiting Hours and Policies

We understand that visitors have therapeutic value in the healing process; however, we also recognize the need for patients to have time to rest and recover. We ask that visitors keep their visits short and limit the number of visitors to two at a time. We also ask that visitors not use cell phones while inside the hospital. Please turn off your cell phone when you arrive.

Visiting hours for all general care units are from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Although we hope visitors will adhere to our visiting hours, these hours can be flexible. You can make special arrangements by speaking to the unit's nurse manager if a visitor is unable to visit during the specified times.

Visiting hours for specialty care units are tailored to meet the needs of those patients and are usually limited to family members only. Please check with the unit's nurse manager.

Children under 12 years of age are discouraged from visiting in patient units. Please check with the unit's nurse manager. Please do not leave children unattended in the hallway.

Gift Shops

The main gift shop is located on the first floor of the Main Building and offers a wide selection of gifts as well as fresh flowers, books, games, stationery, toiletries, newspapers and magazines.

Gift shop hours are as follows:

  • Monday through Friday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
  • Saturday and Sunday: Noon to 8 p.m.

Trinkets and Treasures is located in the upper lobby of our Hasbro Children's Hospital. It is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m.

The shop is stocked with a variety of toys, games, educational materials and gifts that are appropriate for children. Tobacco products are not sold at either gift shop.

Food Services

Our cafeteria is located in the Main Building and is open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. A variety of hot and cold meals, beverages, daily specials, salads and desserts are available.

Au Bon Pain, an independently owned bakery-cafe, is located on the first floor between the Main Building and the Ambulatory Patient Center. It is open every day from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Dudley Street Café is located on the first floor of the Cooperative Care Center and is open from 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Vending machines are located in the following areas:

  • Snack shop, across from the Main Building gift shop
  • The first floor of the Cooperative Care Center
  • The corridor connecting the lower lobby of Hasbro Children's Hospital to the emergency department

Banking Services

There is a full-service Sovereign Bank branch, with a 24-hour ATM, on the first floor of the Main Building. There is also a 24-hour ATM in the Medical Office Building (take the sky bridge from Hasbro Children's Hospital and the ATM is on the left).

Pharmacy

There is a full-service CVS/pharmacy located on the first floor of the Medical Office Building (take the skybridge from Hasbro Children's Hospital and the pharmacy is on the left).

The pharmacy is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; the phone number is 401-421-1555.

Places to Stay

If a family member or friend needs help making accommodation arrangements while you are in the hospital, our clinical social work department can help. Please call 401-444-5711 if you need assistance. The following is a partial listing of hotels in and around Providence.

Providence:

 
Hilton Providence 401-831-3900
The Hotel Providence 401-861-8000
Marriott Courtyard Providence 401-272-1191
Marriott Hotel 401-272-2400
The Providence Biltmore 401-421-0700
Radisson Providence Harbor 401-272-5577
Westin Hotel 401-598-8000
   

Outside Providence:

 
Crowne Plaza Warwick 401-732-6000
Radisson Airport Warwick 401-739-3000
Marriott Residence Inn Warwick 401-737-7100
Sheraton Warwick 401-738-4000

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