The Landmark Medical Center is a private,

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hospital located in

Woonsocket, Rhode Island Woonsocket ( ), is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 43,240 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, making it the sixth largest city in the state. Being Rhode Island's northernmost city, Woonsock ...

and with another unit,

Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island The Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island (also known as Fogarty Hospital) is a private rehabilitation hospital at 116 Eddie Dowling Highway (Route 146A) in the Park Square area of North Smithfield, Rhode Island and with another unit, Landmark ...

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. The facility is a

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for

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and is host to one of three of its internal medicine programs.

History

In 1988 the hospital was created as a merger between Woonsocket Hospital and Fogarty Hospital of North Smithfield. The merged hospitals had been providing healthcare for nearly 130 years. The hospital provides emergency, diagnostic, medical, surgical, cancer, cardiac, pain management, and obstetric care." It is certified as a Primary stroke center and is equipped with

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for coronary intervention. The hospital also provides inpatient psychiatric care.

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