Women and Infants Hospital

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. The major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for activities unique to women and newborns, Women & Infants is the eleventh largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country with nearly 8,400 deliveries per year.

A Designated Baby-Friendly USA Hospital, U.S.News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009, Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

New England’s premier hospital for women and newborns, Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, women's mental health, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, breast disease and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s only mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.

Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Center of Excellence from the American College of Radiology; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health; a National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers through the American College of Surgeons; and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group and the National Institutes of Health’s Pelvic Floor Disorders Network.

About Care New England Health Care System

• Fully integrated health system serving Providence, Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
• Services include primary care, surgery, cardiovascular care, oncology, psychiatry, behavioral health, newborn pediatrics and women’s health services.
• Care New England includes Butler Hospital, Kent Hospital, Women & Infants, The Providence Center, a VNA, Care New England Medical Group and an accountable care organization, Integra.

About the Region

• Providence, the capital and largest city in Rhode Island, offers abundant cultural, recreational and modern city amenities.
• Easy access to other major cities; one hour from Boston, Hartford, New Haven and three hours from New York City.
• Known as the home of industrialization, the area offers waterway activities, historical and cultural charm and is the location of several schools and universities including Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Providence College, University of Rhode Island and Johnson & Wales.

Care New England is a large health care system offering a continuum of quality care throughout its clincial services. Care New England Medical Group (CNEMG) is an integrated employed medical group under Care New England. CNEMG is provider led and professionally managed with a common goal in mind: to proivde quality, service, and access to our patients.