The Miriam Hospital’s recent accomplishments

• The Miriam was named the top hospital in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts according to U.S. News & World Report. The hospital was recognized as high-performing in eight medical specialties, including cancer, diabetes/endocrinology, gastroenterology and surgery, geriatrics, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, pulmonology and urology.

• The Total Joint Center achieved its goal of performing 1,300 joint replacements during 2013 and was recently awarded the Barnet Fain Award for the Transfusion Reduction Project.

• The Miriam launched a Minimally Invasive Urology Institute made possible by generous philanthropic gifts.

• Through the generosity of donors, The Miriam Hospital Foundation was the recipient of contributions totaling $9.3 million during fiscal year 2013.

• Through philanthropy, The Miriam was able to acquire a new state-of-the art da Vinci Si HD surgical robot, further expanding its abilities in the minimally invasive realm. Since 2006, more than 1,800 robotically assisted surgeries have been performed at Miriam, 1,245 of them prostatectomies.

• Last year, committed to conducting cutting-edge research, the Miriam Hospital received a total of a $27 million in external research funding from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH).