Current Operations
Butler Hospital is southeastern New England's only child, adolescent, and adult and senior psychiatric treatment center, providing assessments and treatment for all major psychiatric illnesses and substance abuse. There are eight treatment units in the hospital's inpatient program.
As an internationally recognized research center, Butler participates in many research initiatives including studies in major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's disease and other memory disorders, depression and anxiety in dementia caregivers, substance abuse and family violence, smoking cessation, and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
Butler Hospital employs approximately 950 full-time and part-time, clinical and non-clinical staff, in addition to more than 50 volunteers who assist in nearly all areas of the hospital.
Patricia Ryan Recupero, JD, MD is the President and Chief Executive Officer, and the Chairman of the Board is Charles R. Reppucci.
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