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.
Rhode Island Hospital Events
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Brain and Spine, Cardiology and Cardiac SurgeryJul 21
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Rhode Island HospitalMarch Support Groups Like you, we are carefully monitoring news about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States and locally. As a proactive step, the Neurovascular Center at Rhode Island Hospital is canceling the support group that had been scheduled for March 17, 2020 . We will continue to...
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Brain and SpineAug 12
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Rhode Island HospitalEvent update: We are carefully monitoring news about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States and locally. As a proactive step, we have canceled the April meeting of the Stroke Support Group. The Comprehensive Stroke Center at Rhode Island Hospital offers a stroke support group for stroke...
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Featured News
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Lifespan understands that visitor restrictions has been a great hardship for both patients and families. Lifespan is actively working to put processes in place to liberalize visitation restrictions, while continuing to protect patients and staff from exposure to COVID-19 to help stem the spread of...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
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LeadershipAfter an extensive national search, Kenneth E. Wood, D.O., has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest health system. Dr. Wood is a veteran health care administrator, educator and researcher with three decades of clinical experience...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Today, Lifespan leadership is issuing the following statement calling for zero tolerance of racial and social injustice: Our nation’s unrest came home to our capital city of Providence last night. So it is with a very heavy heart and profound sense of anger that we write today—on behalf of all of...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
JAMA Network published earlier today a study co-authored by Rhode Island Hospital Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Control and Brown University Professor of Medicine Leonard A. Mermel, D.O., Sc.M, along with Young June Choe, M.D, Ph.D., Michael A. Smit, M.D., M.S.P.H., both affiliated...
Monday, May 11, 2020
Access is expanded with new health and safety protocols in place during coronavirus.
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
In an effort to support health care workers throughout Rhode Island and its neighboring communities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s two largest health care systems have come together to offer a mental health support line specifically for health care workers. Launched on Thursday, April 30...
Friday, April 17, 2020
A study led by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital suggests that that one strategy for addressing opioid overdoses and deaths may involve the relationships between people who use illicit drugs and their dealers. The study, which involved surveys and interviews with...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Herbert Aronow, M.D., M.P.H. , director of interventional cardiology and of the cardiac catheterization labs at Rhode Island and The Miriam Hospitals, is one of the authors of national recommendations for interventional cardiac procedures during COVID-19. The article , which was accepted for rapid...
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Statement from Lifespan President & CEO Timothy J. Babineau, M.D. on Postponement of the Hasbro Children’s Hospital Heroes Ball After much thoughtful deliberation, and out of an abundance of caution, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the annual Hasbro Children’s Hospital Heroes...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Rhode Island Hospital was a major participant in a just-published international study that found new hope for preserving brain cells after stroke. After 50 years of research and the testing of over 1,000 drugs, the study found that treating acute ischemic stroke patients with an experimental...
Monday, February 24, 2020
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Outpatient, Health & Wellness, Inpatient, Medical Education, LeadershipLifespan and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University have actively collaborated with Wuhan Union Hospital on research projects since 2016, with the goal of fostering research and cultural awareness. Leaders of Lifespan and the Warren Alpert Medical School have reached out to pledge...
Friday, February 7, 2020
Visitation Discouraged at All Lifespan Hospitals In light of local cases of COVID-19, Lifespan hospital officials are now strongly discouraging any patient visitation. This includes family/friends accompanying those who come to our hospitals’ emergency departments. We are making this effort to...