The Rhode Island Hospital complex consists of 30 buildings on 68 acres. Each resident spends approximately seventy-five percent of his/her time at this complex. The remaining twenty-five percent of the time is spent at rotations at the three affiliated hospitals.

Rhode Island Hospital is the largest hospital in the state and is the parent institution for the surgical residency. A 719-bed acute care academic medical center, the hospital is a major teaching affiliate of the Brown University School of Medicine. The hospital is a Level-I Trauma Center and serves as a regional referral and tertiary care center for Rhode Island, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Eastern Connecticut. The hospital admits more than 30,000 patients yearly and its surgeons perform approximately 10,500 inpatient operations and more than 13,000 outpatient procedures yearly.

The Hasbro Children’s Hospital is a recent addition to the Rhode Island Hospital complex. Completed in February of 1994, this hospital was designed with state-of-the-art facilities both in the operating rooms and on the floors. With a newly expanded pediatric surgical faculty under the direction of Thomas Tracy, M.D., the Hasbro Children’s Hospital provides an excellent training experience in Pediatric Surgery, one of the six major services in the Brown University Program in Surgery.

The complex housing the Ambulatory Surgery Center and Medical Office Center was completed in July of 1994 and contains eight ambulatory surgery suites including designated laparascopic and general surgery rooms, office facilities for surgical faculty and staff. These facilities are connected by skyway to the Rhode Island Hospital and the Children’s Hospital.



AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS:

The Miriam Hospital, located on the East Side of Providence, is a 247-bed acute care facility that plays an integral role in the surgery residency. The department of surgery averages over 4,500 general surgical procedures annually. The ambulatory surgery facility accommodates the increasing demand for outpatient procedures which now average over 8,000 per year. The hospital provides a full range of surgical and medical care with an increasing emphasis on cardiovascular diseases. Other disease populations such as the elderly, oncology, acute surgical problems and AIDS make up additional patient populations.

Veterans Administration Medical Center, in Providence, is a 230-bed acute care facility providing inpatient and ambulatory care in medicine, surgery and psychiatry, and specialized care in rehabilitation medicine, geriatric evaluation and hospital based home care. The hospital admits approximately 4,000 veterans annually and provides care to over 170,000 outpatient visits in 42 clinics. The Surgical Service averages 1,200 major and 1,000 minor surgical procedures each year. Continuity of care is given special importance in the Surgical Service; residents have the unique experience to participate in all phases of diagnosis, treatment and patient follow-up care. General surgery, surgical oncology, vascular surgery, otolaryngology, orthopedics, plastic surgery, thoracic surgery and podiatric surgery complete the spectrum of surgical care at the hospital.

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, located in Pawtucket, is a 300-bed acute care hospital. It is the site of the Brown University Program in Family Medicine, a regionally and nationally recognized center of teaching excellence. The hospital averages 5,000 surgical cases per year. The resident surgical team becomes an integral part of a large surgical group practice participating in an integrated team approach to surgical care, interaction with Family Practice and Internal Medicine residents and the role of Memorial as an academic community hospital.