Southcoast Health opens new comprehensive specialty care office in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

PORTSMOUTH, RI. – Southcoast Health providers, leaders, guests and staff gathered earlier this week to celebrate the completion of a new state-of-the-art specialty care office at 2444 East Main Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

The new office will begin seeing patients the first week of March and is conveniently located in the same building as the community health provider’s longstanding primary care office and medical lab.

“Serving over 25,000 primary care patients living in Rhode Island, this convenient access to Southcoast Health providers and specialty services is essential. The expansion of our well-known primary care office in the area will help centralize patient care across Aquidneck Island, right here close to home for patients,” said Julie DeLeo, MD, Associate Chief of Primary Care at Southcoast Health. “Creating this multi-disciplinary office additionally helps encourage regular checkups, preventive care and simplifies follow-up care. This is an exciting time for our patients, and I am thrilled we are able to bring everything they need right here!”

Specialty care services offered at Southcoast Health Portsmouth now include: 

• Breast Health/Surgery
• Cardiology
• Electrophysiology
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• General Surgery
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopedics
• Plastic Surgery
• Pulmonology
• Rheumatology
• Vascular Surgery

Advanced Imaging care services offered at Southcoast Health Portsmouth now include:

• 3-D Mammography
• DXA (Bone Density)
• Ultrasound                      
• X-Ray

“By bringing 13 clinical specialties and advanced imaging here, we are centralizing a full spectrum of care in one building,” said David O. McCready, President and CEO of Southcoast Health. “I’d like to thank the Board of Trustees, our design and construction team, facilities team, Pariseault, the contractors for this project, and our entire Rhode Island primary care team, not only at this location, but also at our Middletown and Tiverton locations. Their continuous advocacy and support of adding these specialties for our Rhode Island and Aquidneck Island patients has been instrumental to achieving today’s celebratory occasion.”

Over 14 Southcoast Health providers will be joining the practice with alternating schedules Monday – Friday from 8am-5pm.

To learn more about specialty care at Southcoast Health please visit www.southcoast.org, or call 401-682-1440 to make an appointment.