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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Rhode Island HospitalThe Diabetes Prevention Program is a free lifestyle change program for people who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The goal of the program is to help prevent or delay the disease. Online classes will be held every Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., beginning January 14 and ending December...
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Featured News
Thursday, January 14, 2021
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Outpatient, Health & Wellness, In the CommunityThe New Year has brought the opening of a new Lifespan Urgent Care at an iconic location in Rhode Island's largest city -- where the Benny's used to be. The new location at 66 Branch Ave. right off Interstate 95, is the third Lifespan Urgent Care to open in Rhode Island in the past year and a half...
Monday, December 14, 2020
Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest health care system, today received approximately 3,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as part of the state’s Phase 1 distribution plan. Recently the FDA granted an Emergency Use Authorization for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Lifespan will provide the vaccine to...
Monday, November 16, 2020
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OutpatientLifespan Cancer Institute is now offering radiation treatment at its location in East Greenwich, adding to the range of sophisticated oncology options available on-site and marking the second radiotherapy setting in the Lifespan system. Lifespan Cancer Institute also offers radiation treatment at...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Cynthia Danner, DNP, RN, NE-BC Cynthia Danner, DNP, RN, NE-BC, has joined Lifespan as senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Rhode Island Hospital. Cynthia comes to Providence from Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC), a Level II trauma center and the 600-bed flagship hospital for...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Study reveals differences in infection rates, hospitalization rates, based on measures of socioeconomic status
Monday, August 31, 2020
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Pediatric, Outpatient, Health & WellnessHasbro Children’s Hospital Specialty Practices has opened a new location in Lincoln that offers five types of care for children: Pulmonology, Cardiology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, and Endocrinology. The clinical space, located at 701 George Washington Highway in Lincoln, Suite 104, provides...
Thursday, August 13, 2020
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Awards & DesignationsThree Lifespan hospitals – Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Newport Hospital – have received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes commitment to ensuring stroke patients...
Friday, July 31, 2020
Researchers from the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center at Rhode Island Hospital presented five abstracts to their colleagues around the world at the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference held virtually this week. • Brian Ott, MD , center director, presented results...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Building on a decade of successful collaborations, Brown University and Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest health system, announce the launch of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. The Center for Digital Health’s mission is to utilize the best of technology to seamlessly maximize health and...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital’s Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center are currently recruiting volunteer participants for the AHEAD 3-45 study, an innovative Phase III clinical trial of an anti-amyloid antibody, BAN2401, for individuals with normal memory function at risk for...
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...