(Warwick, RI) -- Ahead of Veterans Day, Care New England and Kent Hospital held a ceremony on October 12, 2023, to show appreciation for all military veterans, but especially our Kent Hospital employees who are National Guard members, reservists, or military veterans. Today, we surprised Major Benjamin Misemer, MD, with a special hero’s recognition. He is an Emergency Department physician at Kent Hospital and a Major in the Medical Corps for the United States Army Reserve.
Dr. Misemer, who joined Kent Hospital as part of the Emergency Department in 2022, is approaching his 20th year of service in the Army Reserves Medical Corps. During that time, he completed two overseas tours, returning from his most recent deployment in the Middle East this past July.
“We are so grateful to Dr. Misemer for his service to our country. In addition to being a part of the armed forces, he undertakes the immense responsibility of delivering high-quality healthcare to patients in our community. At a time when this industry has been particularly tough on healthcare workers, he has continued to strive for excellence day in and day out. It is a source of great pride to know Care New England employs such dedicated and selfless people in our community,” said Michael Wagner, MD, president and CEO, Care New England Health System.
Paari Gopalakrishnan, MD, MBA, president and COO, Kent Hospital, says, “Dr. Misemer embodies the true essence of service. He transitioned from the frontlines of the battlefield to the frontlines of the Emergency Department. His unwavering dedication to our nation and serving our community is quite simply a testament to the resilience of our veterans.”
Dr. Misemer’s wife, also a physician, Jessica Guidi, MD, couldn’t join us for the celebration, but their two children Owen and Sadie were a part of the surprise. Also on hand to recognize Dr. Misemer’s service were Darren Girard, MD, Kent Hospital Chief of Emergency Medicine, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, Rhode Island House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi, Brigadier General Andrew J. Chevalier, Rhode Island National Guard, and Kasim Yarn, Director, Rhode Island Veterans Services.
About Kent Hospital
Kent Hospital, a Care New England hospital, is a 359-bed, acute care hospital. It is Rhode Island’s second-largest hospital, serving approximately 300,000 residents of central Rhode Island. A teaching affiliate of The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Kent offers programs in emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and in hyperbaric medicine, and gastroenterology. Kent’s Emergency Department (ED) sees approximately 70,000 patients a year and ranks Kent’s ED volume among the top 10 percent nationally. Kent Hospital is one of four hospitals in Rhode Island to perform emergency angioplasty and the only one south of Providence to do so. Kent’s cardiology program and some surgical services are provided locally through a long-standing clinical affiliation with Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Same-day surgery is performed in the state-of-the-art Ambulatory Surgery Center located on the second floor of the Ambulatory Services Pavilion, while patients can access an array of medical professionals on the first floor, medical office building.
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