Rhode Island State Health Laboratory

The Rhode Island State Health Laboratory (RISHL) is the public health laboratory of Rhode Island operated by the Rhode Island Department of Health.

The laboratory will be transitioning to a new facility in Providence in 2025. RISHL will occupy 80,000 sqft of the new 212,000 sqft building, with the remaining 130,000 sqft available for private laboratories and Brown University. The new building was designed by HoK at a cost of $165 million, with $82 Million funded by the CDC.^[1][2][3][4]

References

1. "Rhode Island Breaks Ground on $82 Million State-of-the-Art Public Health Laboratory". www.cdc.gov. 7 December 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. Anderson, Patrick (Oct 4, 2022). "New State Health Lab would go in $165 million Jewelry District building". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
3. Amaral, Brian (Aug 16, 2023). "R.I. state health lab construction gets fully underway. This time, for real. - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
4. Benoit, Katie (26 March 2024). "State health laboratory building reaches milestone with topping off". WJAR. Retrieved 28 April 2024.