Rhode Island Hospital
Nearly 2,000 physicians are ready to help you with expert diagnostic and treatment services.
Welcome to Rhode Island Hospital
Rhode Island Hospital is the state’s largest hospital, and its only Level I trauma center and verified burn center.
The principal teaching hospital of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital provides comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services, as well as expertise in cancer, cardiology, diabetes, emergency medicine, neurosciences, orthopedics and more.
Award-winning patient care is our hallmark.
Getting Here
Rhode Island Hospital Main Campus
593 Eddy Street
Providence, RI 02903
United States401-444-4000
Featured Centers & Services
As part of an academic medical center, Rhode Island Hospital offers the highest levels of expertise in neuroscience, cancer, and cardiology, among many other specialties.
Neurosurgery
Expert clinical care is provided in state-of-the-art facilities, equipped with the most advanced technology. Each of our skilled surgeons has neurosurgical subspecialty expertise, including surgery for brain tumors and epilepsy, cerebrovascular surgery, skull-base surgery, radiosurgery, complex spine surgery and pediatric neurosurgery.
The Comprehensive Stroke Center
We offer the most advanced stroke treatment and diagnosis techniques and technology available in the world. As a Comprehensive Stroke Center, our team specializes in evaluating and treating the most complex stroke cases.
Lifespan Cancer Institute
Our nationally renowned physicians include surgical, medical, interventional and radiation oncologists. Our providers sub-specialize in specific cancer types and work together in multidisciplinary clinics to provide state-of-the-art care to both adults and children.
Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute
We provide exceptional diagnostic, interventional, surgical and rehabilitative cardiac care. Comprehensive cardiac services include cardiac diagnostic testing and intervention, cardiac rehabilitation, heart failure management, congenital heart disease management and programs for lipid management, management of hypertension and disease prevention.
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Featured News
Friday, December 14, 2018
Lifespan’s Annual Meeting included the presentation of the 2018 Bruce M. Selya Award for Excellence in Research. The Honorable Bruce M. Selya is pictured with recipient Megan L. Ranney, M.D., M.P.H. Megan L. Ranney, M.D., M.P.H., an emergency medicine physician and injury prevention researcher, was...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Megan Ranney, M.D., M.P.H. is lead author on firearm safety editorial, responding to #ThisIsOurLane
Friday, November 30, 2018
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WorkforceWafik El-Deiry to lead new Lifespan-Brown cancer program Wafik El-Deiry, MD, Lifespan and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University have announced the recruitment of Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP, an internationally recognized physician-scientist, academic leader, and medical oncologist...
Monday, November 26, 2018
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Workforce, In the Community, LeadershipExchange program brings staff from Israeli hospital to The Miriam Members of the Emek Medical Center exchange were greeted by representatives of The Miriam Hospital. Pictured left to right are Emek Deputy Director Gil Hirschhorn, MD, TMH executive assistant Maggie Dupont, Emek CNO Yehudit Hyat, TMH...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
25 tons of food donated during health system’s ‘Season of Giving’ activities
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Only hospital in RI and one of only three in New England to earn the distinction from IBM Watson Health
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Rhode Island Hospital and Brown receive grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to conduct peer support program
Monday, October 15, 2018
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Awards & DesignationsPrestigious honor bestowed upon Josiah "Jody" Rich, MD, researcher and advocate on HIV/AIDS, opioids issues Josiah "Jody" Rich, MD PROVIDENCE— Josiah “Jody” Rich, MD, an infectious disease physician and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital, has been...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Study will examine effectiveness of asking patients to electronically submit symptoms following surgery, treatment Don Dizon, MD The National Cancer Institute with the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative has announced that the Lifespan Cancer Institute (LCI) will be among six cancer programs...
Monday, September 24, 2018
The federal grant will create a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) to address the worldwide threat of drug-resistant 'superbugs' Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, and Kiho Lee, PhD, are infectious diseases researchers at The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Mylonakis is the...
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Visitors to all inpatient units to be verbally screened for signs of viral respiratory illness
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Josiah Rich, MD Federal funding will allow for creation of a center to help combat opioid epidemic Rhode Island Hospital announced today that it has received an $11.8 million federal grant to address the nation’s opioid epidemic by establishing the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE)...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
National Committee for Quality Assurance awards designation for practice’s care coordination, communication
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
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In the CommunityPayments in lieu of taxes to city now total $3.6 million Lifespan made a $400,000 payment in lieu of taxes last week to the City of Providence. The PILOT payments from the state’s largest health system to the city now total $3.6 million over the last seven years. “Lifespan is proud of its vital...
Friday, June 1, 2018
Collaborators include Brown University and a new partner, Boston University/Boston Medical Center The Miriam Hospital has been awarded a $9.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund new and continuing initiatives at its Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), a...
Friday, May 4, 2018
A group of researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, along with two international co-authors, have published a study in Scientific Reports that found aberrant stem cells may play a previously unexamined role in osteoarthritis, a debilitating condition affecting more than 30 million...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
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Awards & DesignationsNational non-profit The Leapfrog Group awards "A" grades to Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
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WorkforceTeaching hospitals, Brown medical school infuse more than $2.4 billion into state A new study shows that Lifespan and Care New England teaching hospitals and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University supported 26,449 jobs across the state last year. Those jobs, on average, provided $69,...
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Brian Ott, M.D. The Rhode Island chapter of the American College of Physicians has awarded Brian Ott, M.D., FACP, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center at Rhode Island Hospital , the Milton Hamolsky Lifetime Achievement Award. Ott, a Barrington, R.I., resident, has served...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
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Workforce, In the Community, Awards & DesignationsFor the second time, Lifespan’s four hospitals achieved Top Performer status on the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), a national benchmark of hospitals’ policies and practices related to equitable and inclusive treatment of their LGBTQ patients, visitors and employees. The Human Rights Campaign...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, chief of infectious diseases at Rhode Island and The Miriam hospitals, looks at a specimen with Kiho Lee, PhD, a member of his research team. Lee is holding a petri dish containing tiny worms (nematodes) used to test potential antibiotics. An infectious disease researcher...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Care New England and Partners HealthCare have approached Lifespan and will begin formal discussions to explore how all three health care providers might work together to strengthen patient care delivery in Rhode Island. The conversations were announced on Feb. 27. By combining the talent,...
Friday, December 1, 2017
National AORN CORE award recognizes continuous improvement, evidence-based practice; OR nurse onboarding and education critical to success
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
National Institutes of Health-funded effort fosters emergency medicine research on a large scale
Monday, November 20, 2017
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Events, In the CommunityBrian Ott, MD, and Lori Daiello, PharmD, ScM, will talk about research progress NEWPORT, R.I. – Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital work tirelessly to find a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. On Dec. 7 at Newport Hospital, you can learn about the advances they are making as well as current research...
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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Awards & DesignationsOnly hospital in RI and one of only three in New England to earn the distinction
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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Pediatric, OutpatientInitiative to identify disparities, barriers to managing asthma among high-risk kids
Monday, November 13, 2017
Research interests include cartilage and joint diseases such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, bone tumors, and genetic bone diseases including chondrodysplasia
Monday, November 6, 2017
Rhode Island Hospital is one of only 10 sites in the nation studying the effectiveness of freezing tumor cells to treat small malignant breast tumors. Cryoablation – killing cancer cells with extreme cold – is a promising treatment for small, early-stage breast tumors. Most women diagnosed with...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Rhode Island, The Miriam, and Newport hospitals all received an “A” in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade released today by The Leapfrog Group . Lifespan is the only health system in Rhode Island to receive the top score for all its eligible hospitals. Leapfrog, the national nonprofit health care...
Monday, October 16, 2017
The Comprehensive Spine Center has expanded to make multi-disciplinary treatment available close to home for residents of Aquidneck Island, South County and nearby Massachusetts.
Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Miriam Hospital has been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study an innovative opioid addiction treatment program for incarcerated individuals that was expanded at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in 2016. The $215,157 federal grant will fund research into medication-...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Each year, about 200 million adults needing medical intervention in the United States have an IV inserted into their arm to deliver vital fluids, nutrients and medicines. These "peripheral intravenous catheters" play a critical role in a patient's care, but a small percentage of patients can...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Applications include cancer, Parkinson’s and traumatic brain injury, among other conditions
Monday, June 19, 2017
Rhode Island Hospital and Lifespan leadership were joined today by federal and state officials to mark the opening of the Lifespan Recovery Center. The Rhode Island Hospital program will provide comprehensive outpatient treatment for those seeking to overcome opioid addiction. The center officially...
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Fingleton will assume role April 1 when he joins University Cardiovascular Surgical Associates in Providence.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Participants sought for study targeting tau protein
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Lifespan leadership are creating a strategic alliance to advance cancer treatment and research. The new agreement, signed March 21, 2017, will support the expansion of clinical trials, offer access for Lifespan physicians to cancer-specific disease expertise for...
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Experts recommend better national and regional coordination; supplies shortage from vendors was leading challenge for hospitals in 2014
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
The medical staff of Rhode Island Hospital recently honored Leonard Mermel, D.O., Sc.M., with the 2016 Annual Milton Hamolsky Outstanding Physician Award. Mermel, an internationally noted expert in infectious diseases and infection control, is the medical director of Rhode Island Hospital’s...
Friday, January 27, 2017
Hospital is asking that children under the age of 12 refrain from visiting inpatients until end of cold and flu season.
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Expertise in both low- and high-complexity pregnancies vital as maternal complication rates continue to increase
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Dr. De Oliveira will lead the division's clinical services, administration, and educational and research activities. He joins Lifespan from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
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Medical EducationThe Leapfrog Group announced today that Rhode Island Hospital has been named a Top Hospital. Widely acknowledged as one of the most prestigious distinctions a hospital can receive in the U.S., the recognition showcases Rhode Island Hospital’s commitment to patient safety and quality. “This...
Sunday, November 20, 2016
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Fundraising, EventsArthur A. Bert, M.D., who recently retired after a distinguished 30-year career that culminated as Anesthesiologist-in-Chief for Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children’s Hospital and The Miriam Hospital, was presented the Lifetime Achievement award by Margaret M. Van Bree, MHA, DrPH, President of...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Transcranial magnetic stimulation could improve cognitive abilities
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Microbiome research will help prevent ongoing spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria