Brown University Health’s Bradley Hospital is the world’s first psychiatric hospital dedicated exclusively to children, now serving over 1,000 young patients and families daily through one of the most comprehensive child behavioral health continuums in the nation, including inpatient, outpatient, in-home, emergency and school-based services. With 86 specialized beds and a multidisciplinary clinical staff of 228, Bradley Hospital tailors care to developmental levels and diagnoses such as autism, anxiety, trauma and functional neurological disorders, while also managing Rhode Island’s child welfare and forensic behavioral health services. A national leader in training, Bradley Hospital houses two T32 training grants and one of just three R25 grants in child psychiatry, and has been home to three American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry “Cancro Award” recipients for academic leadership. The hospital is currently managing over $112 million in active research grants, with programs focusing on anxiety, OCD, sleep, autism, social media’s mental health impact and implementation science. Innovations include “Bradley REACH”, a virtual adolescent partial hospital program serving multiple states and contracted partners in underserved regions, and “Kids Link”, a behavioral health crisis call center that has helped Rhode Island achieve the nation’s lowest adolescent suicide rate since 2020. Bradley Hospital was granted $11 million in new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute funding and a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant for sleep disorders.
