Visitor Restrictions are Currently in Place at Butler, Kent, and Women & Infants Hospitals

Care New England is focused on providing excellent clinical care to our patients and keeping our workforce safe. Recently, the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), released visitation guidelines for all health care facilities to minimize the impact of COVID-19 on our patients, visitors and staff and have implemented the following guidelines for any visitors:

• Any person feeling sick with the following systems will be asked to not visit:
  
• Cough
• Fever
• Chills
• Stuffy nose
• Runny nose
• Sore throat

We anticipate that there will be updates to visitation restrictions in the coming weeks as we receive additional guidance from the RIDOH. Click here to learn more >>

Kent Hospital Earns National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons

The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has granted Three-Year Accreditation to the cancer program at Kent Hospital. To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must meet 34 CoC quality care standards, be evaluated every three years through a survey process, and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care. Details

Care New England Welcomes New Medical Director to The Breast Health Center at Kent Hospital

Care New England Medical Group is pleased to welcome Jamie B. Patterson, MD, as medical director of The Breast Health Center at Kent Hospital. Dr. Patterson is a fellowship trained breast surgeon and earned her medical degree at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. She has extensive experience in breast conserving surgery, oncoplastic breast surgery, skin and nipple-sparing mastectomies, pregnancy-associated breast cancer, and hidden-scar surgeries. Details