Landmark Medical Center has served the people of Northern Rhode Island since 1873 when it was founded as Woonsocket Hospital “for the relief, cure and general care of the sick.”
Landmark Medical Center has the third busiest emergency room in the State. Landmark provides essential medical services to the community and has been recognized by the RI Department of Health as one of the most cost-effective hospitals in Rhode Island. Landmark also serves as an economic engine to northern Rhode Island, providing good jobs to more than 1,000 employees.
Yet, largely because of inadequate payment for the services it provides, Landmark Medical Center is in dire financial condition. As a result, the State has assigned a “Special Master” to help develop a plan for Landmark’s survival, and the hospital’s fate now rests with our State officials.
For the sake of its patients, employees, and the entire community, Landmark must remain a full-service, non-profit, locally-controlled community hospital that is responsive to the needs of the people of northern Rhode Island.
Here's how you can help us save Landmark Medical Center:
Click here to send a letter to Attorney General Patrick Lynch, Health Department Director David Gifford, Governor Donald Carcieri, and Congressman Patrick Kennedy to urge them to do all they can to keep Landmark as a full-service community hospital for the people of northern RI.
Click here to tell us why Landmark Medical Center is important to you. (We will share your stories with government officials and others who will be deciding the future of Landmark.)
Click here to sign up for future updates about our campaign to save Landmark.
To read recent news accounts about Landmark Medical Center’s financial challenges, click on the newspaper article titles below:
Hospital special master: Everything on the table at Landmark (Providence Journal, July 6, 2008)
State’s health chief: Don’t raid Landmark staff (Providence Journal, July 8, 2008)
Court OKs special master for Landmark (The Call, June 26, 2008)