Butler Hospital is the only private, not-for-profit psychiatric and substance abuse hospital for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors in Rhode Island. It was founded in 1844 (the first hospital to be founded in the region) and is located at 345 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, Rhode Island. Today, Butler Hospital provides health services for all major psychiatric and substance abuse conditions. It is largely renowned for being a national leader in the development of short-term, managed care services, and for providing the best care available to their patients.
Butler Hospital is associated with the Brown Medical School and is the flagship for the psychiatry department, one of the best ten of the United States. It also has training for interns and students from other universities and colleges in the region. The hospital participates in numerous national and international research programs, such as studies of social phobia, major depression, depression in the elderly, obsessive compulsive disorder, smoking addiction in alcohol-addicted and depressed people, memory disorders, premenstrual syndrome, dysmorphic disorder, and bipolar disorder. The hospital has more than 700 employees, full-time, part-time, clinical, and non-clinical. Additionally, Butler Hospital has over 80 volunteers who work in the hospital helping the community in all areas of the institution.
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