Bradley Hospital to receive Federal funding
By Stephanie Vargas
EAST PROVIDENCE, RI_ United States Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed announce federal funding for
The hospital will receive over $168 thousand dollars from the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program to help expand the program. The expansion will include children’s psychiatric teaching hospitals.
Both Senators have been fighting to change the law for years. The funding is a result of that change.
The money will help support Bradley’s medical residency training program. This program will help train doctors qualified to treat mental illness.
Whitehouse said “Mental health care is just as important as physical health care, but is too often forgotten or ignored.”
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