The Department of Mental Health, Retardation & Hospitals will respond to each inquiry and make every effort to locate a patient record. To speak with a contact service representative from a specific unit within the Department please select from the following list:

1. For the Eleanor Slater Hospital (formerly known as General Hospital-Medical)



2. For the Eleanor Slater Hospital, Adult Psychiatric Unit (formerly known as the Institute of Mental Health and the Forensic Unit)



3. For the Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit (formerly known as Zambarano Memorial Hospital, Wallum Lake)



4. For the former Charles V. Chapin Hospital



5. For the Division of Developmental Disabilities (formerly referred to as Ladd Center)



6. For Substance Abuse (formerly referred to as the Division of Substance Abuse)

For the Eleanor Slater Hospital (formerly known as General Hospital-Medical)
This unit retains records of all discharges from 1986 to date and deaths from 1996 to date. Prior to 1986, all records have been destroyed, we only have patient master indices.

Any requests for patient's personal health information should be directed to MHRH, Medical records.
Phone: 401-462-3526 or Fax: 401-462-0389

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For the Eleanor Slater Hospital, Adult Psychiatric Unit (formerly known as the Institute of Mental Health and the Forensic Unit)
Any requests for patient's personal health information should be directed to MHRH, Medical records.
Phone: 401-462-3526 or Fax: 401-462-0389

Prior to 1980 all records and some indices are not available.

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For the Eleanor Slater Hospital, Zambarano Unit (formerly known as Zambarano Memorial Hospital, Wallum Lake)
All records are partially or fully intact. These include the Tuberculosis records. All master patient indices are retained.

Any requests for patient's personal health information should be directed to MHRH, Medical records.
Phone: 401-567-5428 or Fax: 401-567-4004

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For the former Charles V. Chapin Hospital
All records for the former Charles V. Chapin Hospital are no longer available.

For information, please call MHRH, Medical records.
Phone: 401-462-3526 or Fax: 401-462-0389

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For the Division of Developmental Disabilities (formerly referred to as Ladd Center)
For information, please call Joann Boissy at 401-462-2674.

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For Substance Abuse (formerly referred to as the Division of Substance Abuse)
Records from Benjamin Rush are no longer available. Master patient indices were kept. Good Hope Program records were maintained by Pioneer Health Records. Edgehill in-patients were taken over by Roger Williams Hospital.

Any requests for patient's personal health information should be directed to MHRH, Medical records.

Phone: 401-462-3526 or Fax: 401-462-0389

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