Awards and Achievements

2008

Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital were named Blue Distinction Centers for Complex and Rare Cancers by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island. Rhode Island and The Miriam are the only two hospitals in the state to be recognized with this merit.
Rhode Island Hospital has been designated a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
Rhode Island Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University announce that the diagnostic imaging residency training program has been ranked number one in the country. The ranking, released annually by the American Board of Radiology, objectively measures residency training programs based on the past five years of written and oral Board examinations. The Rhode Island Hospital-sponsored graduate medical education program was ranked number one out of the 186 training programs across the country. Based at Rhode Island Hospital, residents also spend one month training at both The Miriam Hospital and Women and Infant’s Hospital each year.
Rhode Island Hospital has once again been designated a UnitedHealth Premium Cardiac Specialty Center and a UnitedHealth Premium Surgical Spine Specialty Center. Hospitals receiving the designation have met rigorous quality criteria based on nationally recognized medical standards and expert advice.
For the second consecutive year, Rhode Island Hospital and its New England Organ Bank (NEOB) staff have been recognized by the United States Department of Health and Human Services as one of the nation’s best performing organ procurement organizations. The RIH NEOB received the Distinguished Performance Award for excelling in measures considered most critical by donation professionals, including high conversion rates (the number of potential deceased organ donors who become donors), high rate of organs transplanted per donor and high percentage of donors who donate following cardiac death (as compared to following brain death, which is more common). Rhode Island Hospital was recognized for a donor conversion rate of 75 percent for the past year and received its award during the national meeting of the Organ Donation and Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative in Nashville, TN.
Rhode Island Hospital has been recognized as a national leader in providing heart-attack care and for meeting the 90-minute national standard to provide life-saving care. The hospital was selected by VHA, Inc., a national healthcare alliance, as a model of treatment for heart attack patients. The hospital presented its care process at the VHA’s national meeting in Orlando in February to serve as a model and help other hospitals achieve such performance levels.

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