The Miriam Hospital: Award-Winning Care

The Miriam has received numerous recognitions for its outstanding care and innovative programs, including:

Top Regional Hospital

Recognition year after year as a top regional hospital by U.S. News and World Report , including recognition as high performing in eight medical specialties: cancer, diabetes/endocrinology, gastroenterology and surgery, geriatrics, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, pulmonology, and urology.

Magnet Hospital Designation

The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program ® is nursing’s top honor and one of the most prestigious distinctions an organization can receive for high quality patient care and nursing. The Miriam has received this award six consecutive times.

Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Care

The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Rhode Island Hospital and The Leonard and Adele R. Decof Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Miriam each earned the Outstanding Achievement award of the American College of Surgeon’s Commission on Cancer (CoC). Among only 90 programs nationwide to receive this honor, the award recognizes the significant commitment by medical staff, administration, and staff to providing high-quality cancer care to their patients, as well as meeting and exceeding CoC standards

Excellence in Stroke Care

The Miriam received the “ Get With The Guidelines-Stroke ” Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award for using American Heart Association/American Stroke Association quality improvement measures when treating stroke patients. The hospital has received the Gold or Gold Plus designation for stroke care every year since 2008.

Total Joint Center - Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval

The Total Joint Center at The Miriam Hospital earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for its total knee and total hip replacement programs. This certification recognizes the Center’s compliance with national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-specific care. It also acknowledges the center’s dedication to continuous compliance with The Joint Commission’s stateof-the-art standards.

Situated on a 22-acre campus in Providence’s historic East Side, The Miriam Hospital provides a broad range of primary, secondary, and tertiary medical services to adolescents and adults, with particular expertise in cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, urology, immunology, and infectious diseases. The hospital also offers a full range of pathology and radiology services as well as psychiatric consultation/liaison services. Its service area encompasses most of the cities and towns in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.

In addition to its programs with Brown University’s medical school, The Miriam maintains a wide array of research initiatives that attract millions of dollars in internal and external funding every year. Through medical education and research, the hospital remains at the forefront of advanced clinical care.