Bradley Hospital receives $168K in federal funding

U.S. SENS. SHELDON  WHITEHOUSE, left, and Jack Reed, right, announced $168,354 in federal funding for Bradley Hospital.
U.S. SENS. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, left, and Jack Reed, right, announced $168,354 in federal funding for Bradley Hospital.

EAST PROVIDENCE – Bradley Hospital will receive $168,354 from the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program, U.S. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed announced Monday in a joint press release.

The funding was made possible by the CHGME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013, which included a provision authored by Whitehouse to expand the program to include children’s psychiatric teaching hospitals. Previously, the funding only was available to children’s hospitals, not children’s psychiatric hospitals.
The law went into effect last year.
“Mental health care is just as important as physical health care, but is too often forgotten or ignored,” Whitehouse said in a statement. “This funding will support Bradley Hospital’s training program for medical residents, which prepares them to treat children’s mental and behavioral health conditions. I was proud to work with Sen. Reed to include children’s psychiatric teaching hospitals in the CHGME program, and I congratulate Bradley Hospital on the receipt of this much-deserved funding.”

Said Reed, “Bradley Hospital and other children’s psychiatric teaching hospitals should have the federal support they need to train doctors equipped to treat mental illness. I am pleased we were able to finally reach an agreement to address the omission of children’s psychiatric teaching hospitals because it is essential to end discriminatory funding policies against children with mental health issues.”
Daniel J. Wall, Bradley Hospital president, said the number of children in need of mental health care services is growing, and the ratio of children seeking services compared with the number of mental health care providers “remains one of the largest disparities in the entire field of medicine.”

“Research has proven the value of early diagnosis and treatment in mental health outcomes in children, so funding to support the training of medical students to practice in the field of psychiatry is not only important, it is essential to the health and well-being of our children,” Wall said.

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The CHGME funding will be used to support Bradley’s medical residency training program, including the two-year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and its five-year Triple Board Residency Program, one of 10 such programs in the United States.

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