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Lifespan Care Locations
Our commitment to patient-centered care means providing the right care in the right place at the right time. We have expanded our reach throughout the communities we serve through our ambulatory centers, clinics and programs.
Rhode Island Hospital
Founded in 1863, Rhode Island Hospital is the state’s largest, and its only Level I trauma center and accredited 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.
Hasbro Children's Hospital
As a division of Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children’s Hospital is the region’s premiere provider of pediatric clinical care. The hospital offers a broad spectrum of both routine care and specialty programs not available elsewhere. Hasbro Children’s has the only pediatric emergency department, Level 1 trauma center, pediatric critical care teams and 24-hour ambulance in the region. Our approach to pediatric medicine makes parents, who know their children best, an essential part of the care team.
The Miriam Hospital
Founded by the Providence Jewish community in 1926, The Miriam Hospital today offers a wide range of medical services, with notable expertise in cardiac care, total joint replacement, bariatric surgery, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, and men’s health. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, the hospital receives international recognition for its HIV/AIDS, behavioral health and preventive medicine research.
Bradley Hospital
Founded in 1931, Bradley Hospital was the nation’s first psychiatric hospital exclusively for children. Today it provides expert, family-focused care to children and adolescents with psychological, developmental, and behavioral problems, through a wide range of inpatient, outpatient, residential, and partial hospital programs. A teaching hospital for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Bradley Hospital is a national center for research in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Newport Hospital
Newport Hospital, founded in 1873, offers a wide array of services to the community. In addition to an emergency department that treats patients from Newport and surrounding towns, the hospital provides diagnostic and surgical services and is home to the renowned Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center and the award-winning Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center. Newport Hospital has been designated a Magnet hospital for excellence in nursing three consecutive times.
Gateway Healthcare
Gateway Healthcare provides outstanding treatment, intervention and prevention services to adults and children of all cultural and economic backgrounds with behavioral and substance abuse issues, through its residential, outpatient and community-based programs. With more than 42 locations across the state, Gateway Healthcare delivers services to more than 25,000 Rhode Islanders each year.
Featured Centers & Services
As part of an academic medical center, our hospitals consolidate their expertise to offer the most advanced and highest quality medical care in centers of excellence that include cardiology, orthopedics, cancer care, women’s medicine, emergency services, and the neurosciences, among others.
Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute
The Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute provides expert diagnostic, interventional, surgical and rehabilitative cardiac care. Expert nurses, physician assistants and nurse practitioners complement our superlative team of cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons.
Lifespan Cancer Institute
The Lifespan Cancer Institute brings together specialists from Rhode Island, The Miriam and Newport hospitals to form a multidisciplinary team that provides the highest quality treatment for cancer patients in a comfortable setting, close to home.
Lifespan Orthopedics Institute
Physicians of the Lifespan Orthopedics Institute provide diagnostic, medical and surgical treatment for musculoskeletal injuries and disorders, from simple fractures to microvascular surgery.
Women's Medicine Collaborative
Women’s Medicine Collaborative is devoted to the health needs of women at all stages of life, ranging from primary care to obstetrics, gastrointestinal medicine and cancer treatment, taking a comprehensive approach to wellness.
Emergency Services
Emergency departments at Rhode Island, The Miriam and Newport hospitals are staffed 24 hours a day by experts in emergency medicine. Rhode Island Hospital is the only Level I Trauma Center in the region, providing the highest level of adult and pediatric trauma care.
Neurosciences
As part of the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute, Lifespan’s experts in the neurosciences provide the highest caliber care for brain and spine disorders, based on the most current and innovative research.
Upcoming Events
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Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Emergency MedicineRelated Locations:
Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Gateway HealthcareThe Lifespan Community Training Center in the Lifespan Community Health Institute will host a free, hands-only CPR course teaching lifesaving skills for emergencies involving adults, children, and infants. Participants will: Learn how to perform hands-only CPR for an adult, child, and infant...
Apr 23
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Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Gateway HealthcareLifespan’s Green Team, in partnership with the Matunuck Elementary School’s Junior Girl Scout Troop 560, invites you to watch a new feature-length documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle. A free screening of the visually stunning action documentary A...
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Brain & Spine, Geriatrics & Senior Services, RehabilitationApr 25
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Rhode Island HospitalThe Norman Prince Neurosciences Insitute Aging Brain Initiative and the Rhode Island Hospital Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center present this event, part of the Aging and Dementia Research Lecture Series. All events are free and open to the public. Speaker Alex Mingjian, MSc,...
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OBGYN and Women's HealthApr 25
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Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Gateway HealthcareLifespan Physcian Group Obstetrics and Gynecology are hosting informal gatherings to meet the practice's midwives on Wednesdays throughout the year. Current patients who would like to meet with midwives as they prepare for labor and birth and anyone else interested in learning about pregnancy and...
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Medical Education, Mental Health and Behavioral Health, Nutrition, OBGYN and Women's HealthApr 26
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Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam HospitalLocation Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus 265 Harborside Boulevard Providence, RI 02905 Note: Do not follow GPS. Directions and Parking Information Lifestyle Medicine is the evidence-based practice of assisting individuals and families to adopt and sustain behaviors that can improve health and...
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Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, EndocrinologyApr 28
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Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Gateway HealthcareLifespan Community Health Institute will offer a blood pressure screening clinic at the Lighthouse Community Development Food Pantry on Saturday, April 28, 2018. Participants must be 19 years or older. This is a free event. For more information contact Marianne Stepanian at 401-444-8063 or email...
Apr 28
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Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Gateway HealthcareProvidence Mayor Jorge Elorza, the Providence Public School Department, and the City of Providence Office of Economic Opportunity will present the Eat, Play, Learn Summer Opportunities Expo on Saturday, April 28, 2018. The expo is a chance to talk to organizations from across Rhode Island about...
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Mental Health and Behavioral HealthMay 3
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Bradley HospitalYouth Mental Health First Aid is an eight-hour training course on Thursday, May 3 designed to give members of the public key skills to help an adolescent who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The eight-hour course covers a range of common disorders and...
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Mental Health and Behavioral Health, Weight LossMay 5
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Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Newport Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Gateway HealthcareThe Center for Weight and Wellness will present "Life Balance: A Stress Management Series" on Saturdays from May 5, 2018 to June 9. The cost for the entire series will be $50. The Lifespan Center for Weight and Wellness provides the most comprehensive, integrated care to support each patient’s...
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Surgery, Weight LossMay 7
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The Miriam HospitalThis all-inclusive meeting is offered for pre-op and post-op patients and those just investigating bariatric surgery ; family members welcome. This group meets on the first Monday of each month from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Hurvitz 1 Conference Room and the fourth Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. in the...
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Apr 28
Breast Imaging Seminar Cartilage Transplant Returns Brittney to Athletic Activity
Featured News
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,...
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 Hospials, in the laboratory 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,...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Goal to transform health care delivery and provide more affordable, world-class care
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.
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...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
State’s largest health system also names Howard Safran, M.D. as Institute’s division chief of hematology/oncology
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...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Microbiome research will help prevent ongoing spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Will focus on expanding state’s largest multispecialty physician group, while improving patient access to comprehensive, quality health care
Monday, October 3, 2016
Hasbro Children’s Hospital experts say nearly one-quarter of cases can be successfully treated with antibiotics