Doctor with a criminal past named chief of medical services for Rhode Island's state psychiatric

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Doctor with a criminal past named chief of medical services for Rhode Island's state psychiatric hospital.


A 49-year-old doctor with a felony conviction has been named chief of medical services for Rhode Island’s state psychiatric hospital.

Dr. Andrew C. Stone was appointed chief of medical services at Eleanor Slater Hospital, in Cranston, and its Zambrano unit, in Burrillville, earlier this month. In 2006, police in Seekonk, MA arrested Stone after he was accused of exposing himself to boys in a locker room at the Newman YMCA. Stone pleaded guilty to four felony counts of open and gross lewdness and was sentenced to four months at the Bristol County House of Corrections in Massachusetts. Rhode Island health officials revoked his medical license.

According to Rhode Island medical disciplinary records, Stone later completed a treatment program in Texas, participated in almost seven years of treatment and monitoring and spent “hundreds of hours in group therapy, individual psychotherapy and psychiatric treatment.’’ By 2015, medical experts declared him to be in remission and fit to return to practicing medicine, with restrictions. He was to limit his practice to adults in group institutional settings, and continue treatment and monitoring. In 2018, the state removed him from probation. The same year he went to work at Slater.

Stone’s appointment to chief of medical services at Slater was first reported by the local online news organization NRI Now. The state Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH) said in a statement that Stone is taking on additional responsibilities as part of a reshuffling after two of the hospital’s physicians stepped down from their posts.

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