Brown Health weighs closing more healthcare facilities

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Brown University Health is considering closing the Samuels Sinclair Dental Center, Rhode Island’s primary provider of dental care for children and people with special needs, and Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest nonprofit behavioral health care provider, as it attempts to reduce costs. “We are . . . the primary provider for all of the state's group home patients, for intellectual disabled patients. You're thinking autism syndrome, Down syndrome, any other syndromic things, seizure disorders, so we basically take all of those patients on as well, and there are very, very few other providers that are capable of handling that population,” Elizabeth Benz, director of the clinic, said.


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