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Located on the campus of Rhode Island Hospital,
the Plastic Surgery administrative office provides a full range of technical assistance, including: computers,
a digital scanner, photocopy and fax machines,
an extensive library, including a video instructional series,
and a full-time staff, all contributing to making the staff and
residents' lives comfortable and productive. Up-to-date utilization
of technology is evidenced by access to the Internet and Plastic
Surgery on-line services, Medline (Pubmed), along with a host
of other electronic journals and resources.
Residents are given full support for digital
photography, with innovative archiving and retrieval resources
accessible throughout the institution.
The Peters Health Sciences Library, located
on the RIH campus, houses an extensive collection of medical
books and journals, CD-ROM databases, and offers complete
computer literature search capabilities. House officers hold
academic appointments to the Brown Medical School, which entitle
them to use the full spectrum of the University's educational
and athletic facilities. The Gerry House is a five-story building
on the RIH campus which is reserved for the use of house officers,
medical students, and other qualified individuals as an on-call facility or residence dormatory for visitors. Also in the Gerry House
is the RIH Fitness Center, which offers members a variety
of modern fitness equipment as well as squash and racquetball
courts. On-campus day care is available at the Rhode Island
Hospital Guild Day Care Center, run by Bright Horizons Children's
Center, Inc.
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 RIH
has 18 in-patient operating suites, 10 of which are in the brand new Bridge Building, one floor above the new Emergency Department. The Hasbro Children's Hospital
has five pediatric operating rooms, specially designed for
the needs of children, and adjacent to the pediatric emergency
department and the adult OR's. Eight outpatient surgery suites
are located in the newly constructed Ambulatory Surgery Center,
located in the Cooperative Care and Medical Office Center
complex.
The private
Dudley Street Operatory, incorporated in the Plastic Surgery
Suite, is the site of most cosmetic and hand procedures, and
operated by members of the Plastic Surgery faculty.
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 RIH's
emergency department is the region's verified Level 1 trauma
center, calling for the best and most expert staff and equipment
to be on hand 24 hours a day. With more than 125,000 visits
a year, the RIH emergency department is the busiest in New
England, and ranks among the 12 busiest in the country. The
department is located in the new Bridge Building, recently opened in April 2005, a wonderful and enormous state-of-the-art facility designed to serve the needs of the region for many years to come. It is located directly under the new operating room suite, with a direct access trauma elevator available for immediate access.
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 Hasbro
Children's Hospital (HCH), the region's premiere pediatric
facility, is the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital.
With 87 beds, HCH admits some 6,000 inpatients each year.
HCH offers the area's only pediatric intensive care unit and
pediatric oncology program, has separate emergency and surgical
units, and operates numerous specialty clinics which log 30,000
visits each year. HCH has four pediatric operating rooms,
located adjacent to the Davol Building operating rooms. The
hospital is located in a new, seven-story building opened
in 1994, and boasts artwork, fountains, an aquarium and many
other unique features to delight children and adults. Designed
in collaboration with physicians, staff, parents and children,
HCH has earned worldwide acclaim for its family-centered environment
and expert staff.
The medical staff includes pediatric specialists
in general surgery, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, otolaryngology,
urology and orthopaedics, as well as pediatric anesthesiologists.
All of these specialist are board certified in their specialties
and enhance the plastic surgery training program.
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Plastic Surgery staff have staff appointments
at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, the area's
referral center for reproductive and perinatal medicine and
a major affiliate of the Brown Medical School.
The hospital delivers 10,000 babies annually, making it the
largest obstetrical service in the state, and second largest
in New England. The hospital also cares for more than 1,000
critically ill newborns in its prestigious Neonatal Special
Care Nursery each year. W&I is affiliated with and located
adjacent to Rhode Island Hospital. Plastic Surgery staff often
provide consultation and services at W&I for programs
such as the hospital's gynecological tumor service.
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663 bed Rhode Island Hospital is a founding partner
of Lifespan, a comprehensive health system formed in 1994
with The Miriam Hospital, a 247 bed hospital located in Providence,
and also a major affiliate of the Brown Medical School. Additional Lifespan partners include Newport Hospital; Bradley
Hospital, a children's psychiatric hospital; VNA of Rhode
Island, the area's leading home health care agency; and Hospice
Care of Rhode Island, which provides palliative care for the
terminally ill.
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