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Pediatric ophthalmologist in Providence, RI
4.7 · 96 reviewsOpens Tuesday at 8:30 AMOpens Tuesday at 8:30 AM
This practitioner is affiliated with Brown University Health (Formerly Lifespan Health System). Brown University Health includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children. It also includes Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA and Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA, all community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice and primary care network in Rhode Island.
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What D. Robbins Tien, MD offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
D. Robbins Tien, MD lists 1 service on its website. Here's each one, with how many reviews mention each.
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No code detected[Photo 2]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Panera Bread is a cafe, a 3 minute walk for the wait. Pawtuxet River South Branch is a park, a 2 minute walk for the wait.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 18, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
What reviews, press and directories say about D. Robbins Tien, MD.
4.7from 96 reviews on Google
Dr. Tien is highly regarded for his expertise in pediatric eye care, particularly for children with special needs, despite some operational challenges. Patients describe a welcoming environment with Dr. D. Robbins Tien demonstrating a high level of professionalism and care. Many parents appreciate his thoroughness and the positive impact he has had on their children's eye health, particularly noting his kindness and patience during visits. However, some experiences highlight issues with wait times and staff communication.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
Signal and how much it countsD. Robbins Tien, MD
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about D. Robbins Tien, MD. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Pediatric ophthalmologists in Providence, RI · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 31, 2026.
Published July 16, 2026 · Updated October 31, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
D. Robbins Tien, MD is a pediatric ophthalmologist in Providence, RI. Its AI Score is 54 of 100, which is fair.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Pediatric ophthalmologist |
| Address | 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Fri to Sun |
| Phone | (401) 444-7008 |
| Rating | 4.7 across 96 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 31, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | This practitioner is affiliated with Brown University Health (Formerly Lifespan Health System). Brown University Health includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children. It also includes Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA and Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA, all community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice and primary care network in Rhode Island. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Fri to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | D. Robbins Tien, MD | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (401) 444-7008 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Glaucoma management | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Glaucoma silent thief sight | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Pediatric eye exams | AI guess | |
| Team | Fall River, MA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | |
| Links | https://facebook.com/brownuniversityhealth | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | https://instagram.com/brownuniversityhealth | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | https://www.brownhealth.org/providers/d-robbins-tien-md | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
These are the 1 service D. Robbins Tien, MD offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.
| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glaucoma silent thief sight | From their website |
1 person is named on this page.
| Field | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|
Address: 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA. Phone: (401) 444-7008. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Fri to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "This practitioner is affiliated with Brown University Health (Formerly Lifespan Health System). Brown University Health includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children. It also includes Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA and Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA, all community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice and primary care network in Rhode Island."
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Eddy after Blackstone | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Eddy before Blackstone | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Lifespan Diagnostic Imaging | Parking lot | 2 min walk |
| Pawtuxet River South Branch | Park | 2 min walk |
| Hospital District (Northbound) | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Willard Ave. Parking | Parking garage | 2 min walk |
4.7 average across 96 reviews: Google 96. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)
Dr. Tien is highly regarded for his expertise in pediatric eye care, particularly for children with special needs, despite some operational challenges. (AI guess, from 96 reviews.)
We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about D. Robbins Tien, MD. These are the answers that don’t match this page.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.
| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
|---|---|---|
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 1 Hoppin St | 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Providence pediatric ophthalmologists run 28 to 60. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. D. Robbins Tien, MD scores 54. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | D. Robbins Tien, MD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 35 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 67 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 82 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 67 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 91 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 58 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a pediatric ophthalmologist: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery
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| Fall River, MA | Person | #team-fall-river | ||
| Providence, Rhode Island | City | #city | City D. Robbins Tien, MD is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the pediatric ophthalmologists in Providence, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# D. Robbins Tien, MD, Providence RI: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ri/providence/d-robbins-tien-md-providence-ri. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-31. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ri/providence/d-robbins-tien-md-providence-ri ## Photos -  -  ## In short D. Robbins Tien, MD is a pediatric ophthalmologist in Providence, RI. Its AI Score is 54 of 100, which is fair. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Pediatric ophthalmologist | | Address | 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Fri to Sun | | Phone | (401) 444-7008 | | Rating | 4.7 across 96 reviews on Google | | Updated | October 31, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | This practitioner is affiliated with Brown University Health (Formerly Lifespan Health System). Brown University Health includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children. It also includes Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA and Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA, all community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice and primary care network in Rhode Island. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Fri to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | D. Robbins Tien, MD | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (401) 444-7008 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Glaucoma management | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Glaucoma silent thief sight | From their website | Business website | | Services | Service | Pediatric eye exams | AI guess | | | Team | Fall River, MA | | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/brownuniversityhealth | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/brownuniversityhealth | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.brownhealth.org/providers/d-robbins-tien-md | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices These are the 1 service D. Robbins Tien, MD offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Glaucoma silent thief sight | | | | From their website | ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team 1 person is named on this page. ### Fall River, MA | Field | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | ## Visiting D. Robbins Tien, MD Address: 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA. Phone: (401) 444-7008. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Fri to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "This practitioner is affiliated with Brown University Health (Formerly Lifespan Health System). Brown University Health includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children. It also includes Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA and Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA, all community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice and primary care network in Rhode Island." ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Eddy after Blackstone | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | Eddy before Blackstone | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | Lifespan Diagnostic Imaging | Parking lot | 2 min walk | | Pawtuxet River South Branch | Park | 2 min walk | | Hospital District (Northbound) | Bus stop | 2 min walk | | Willard Ave. Parking | Parking garage | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 96 reviews: Google 96. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.) Dr. Tien is highly regarded for his expertise in pediatric eye care, particularly for children with special needs, despite some operational challenges. (AI guess, from 96 reviews.) ### What people like - Kind and patient demeanor with children - Positive impact on children's eyesight - Clean and organized office environment ### What people do not like - Long wait times for appointments - Communication issues with office staff - Difficulty with parking ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Get listed in directories so AI can tell you're real ## Questions people ask ### anywhere on Dudley to sit while I wait ### last update from here was when? ### best pediatric ophthalmologist in Providence ### anything people actually moan about here? ### Somewhere to park near D. Robbins Tien, MD? ### D. Robbins Tien, MD or Pediatric? ### what time does D. Robbins Tien, MD in Providence actually open? ### medical staff at D. Robbins Tien, MD, or is it techs? ### walk in here, or is it appointment only? ### Worth the hype at D. Robbins Tien, MD? ### services here, what do people go in for? ### Why do people rate D. Robbins Tien, MD? ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand ### Saturdays at D. Robbins Tien, MD, are they open? ### Is numbing included at D. Robbins Tien, MD or is it extra? ### how much is a first visit around here ### Finance options, anyone used them? ## What AI gets wrong about D. Robbins Tien, MD We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about D. Robbins Tien, MD. These are the answers that don’t match this page. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026. | Fact | What AI says | What this page says | | --- | --- | --- | | Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 1 Hoppin St | 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA | ## The AI Score: 54 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Providence pediatric ophthalmologists run 28 to 60. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. D. Robbins Tien, MD scores 54. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | D. Robbins Tien, MD | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 35 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 67 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good | | Reviews & response | 12 | 82 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 67 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 91 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 58 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a pediatric ophthalmologist: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to D. Robbins Tien, MD | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | D. Robbins Tien, MD | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.brownhealth.org/providers/d-robbins-tien-md | Subject of this page | | Fall River, MA | Person | #team-fall-river | | | | Providence, Rhode Island | City | #city | | City D. Robbins Tien, MD is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the pediatric ophthalmologists in Providence, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best pediatric ophthalmologists in Providence: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ri/providence/pediatric-ophthalmologist - Best businesses in Providence: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ri/providence ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Rhode Island: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ri ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJh6suamhF5IkRYEjt4V9W7rY (accessed Jul 16, 2026) - [2] brownhealth.org, https://www.brownhealth.org/be-well/glaucoma-silent-thief-sight (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Pediatric ophthalmologists in Providence, RI · Editorial</p>
<h2>D. Robbins Tien, MD, Providence RI: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated October 31, 2026.</p>
<p>Published July 16, 2026 · Updated October 31, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>D. Robbins Tien, MD is a pediatric ophthalmologist in Providence, RI. Its AI Score is 54 of 100, which is fair.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Pediatric ophthalmologist</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Fri to Sun</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(401) 444-7008</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.7 across 96 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>October 31, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>This practitioner is affiliated with Brown University Health (Formerly Lifespan Health System). Brown University Health includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children. It also includes Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA and Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA, all community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice and primary care network in Rhode Island.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Fri to Sun Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>D. Robbins Tien, MD</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(401) 444-7008</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>8:30 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>8:30 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>8:30 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>8:30 AM to 4:30 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Glaucoma management</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Glaucoma silent thief sight</td><td>From their website</td><td>Business website</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Pediatric eye exams</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Team</td><td>Fall River, MA</td><td></td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/brownuniversityhealth</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Instagram</td><td>https://instagram.com/brownuniversityhealth</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://www.brownhealth.org/providers/d-robbins-tien-md</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>These are the 1 service D. Robbins Tien, MD offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Service</th><th scope="col">Price</th><th scope="col">Price mark</th><th scope="col">Price evidence</th><th scope="col">Service mark</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Glaucoma silent thief sight</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>From their website</td></tr>
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<h4>Known for</h4>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
<p>1 person is named on this page.</p>
<h4>Fall River, MA</h4>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Field</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<h3>Visiting D. Robbins Tien, MD</h3>
<p>Address: 2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA. Phone: (401) 444-7008. Hours: Mon to Thu 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Fri to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "This practitioner is affiliated with Brown University Health (Formerly Lifespan Health System). Brown University Health includes three teaching hospitals of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University: Rhode Island Hospital and its Hasbro Children’s; The Miriam Hospital; and Bradley Hospital, the nation’s first psychiatric hospital for children. It also includes Newport Hospital, Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA and Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA, all community hospitals offering a broad range of health services; Gateway Healthcare, the state’s largest provider of community behavioral health care; and Brown Health Medical Group, the largest multi-specialty practice and primary care network in Rhode Island."</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Eddy after Blackstone</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Eddy before Blackstone</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Lifespan Diagnostic Imaging</td><td>Parking lot</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pawtuxet River South Branch</td><td>Park</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hospital District (Northbound)</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Willard Ave. Parking</td><td>Parking garage</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.7 average across 96 reviews: Google 96. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)</p>
<p>Dr. Tien is highly regarded for his expertise in pediatric eye care, particularly for children with special needs, despite some operational challenges. (AI guess, from 96 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
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<li>Kind and patient demeanor with children</li>
<li>Positive impact on children's eyesight</li>
<li>Clean and organized office environment</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Long wait times for appointments</li>
<li>Communication issues with office staff</li>
<li>Difficulty with parking</li>
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<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
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<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>anywhere on Dudley to sit while I wait</h4>
<h4>last update from here was when?</h4>
<h4>best pediatric ophthalmologist in Providence</h4>
<h4>anything people actually moan about here?</h4>
<h4>Somewhere to park near D. Robbins Tien, MD?</h4>
<h4>D. Robbins Tien, MD or Pediatric?</h4>
<h4>what time does D. Robbins Tien, MD in Providence actually open?</h4>
<h4>medical staff at D. Robbins Tien, MD, or is it techs?</h4>
<h4>walk in here, or is it appointment only?</h4>
<h4>Worth the hype at D. Robbins Tien, MD?</h4>
<h4>services here, what do people go in for?</h4>
<h4>Why do people rate D. Robbins Tien, MD?</h4>
<h4>do I need to fill anything in beforehand</h4>
<h4>Saturdays at D. Robbins Tien, MD, are they open?</h4>
<h4>Is numbing included at D. Robbins Tien, MD or is it extra?</h4>
<h4>how much is a first visit around here</h4>
<h4>Finance options, anyone used them?</h4>
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<section id="ai-what-ai-gets-wrong">
<h3>What AI gets wrong about D. Robbins Tien, MD</h3>
<p>We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about D. Robbins Tien, MD. These are the answers that don’t match this page.</p>
<p>ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">What AI says</th><th scope="col">What this page says</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Address</td><td>Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026: 1 Hoppin St</td><td>2 Dudley St Ste 505, Providence, RI 02903, USA</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 54 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Providence pediatric ophthalmologists run 28 to 60. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. D. Robbins Tien, MD scores 54. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">D. Robbins Tien, MD</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>35</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>67</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>82</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>67</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>79</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>91</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>58</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
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<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a pediatric ophthalmologist: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery</p>
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<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to D. Robbins Tien, MD</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>D. Robbins Tien, MD</td><td>MedicalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://www.brownhealth.org/providers/d-robbins-tien-md</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fall River, MA</td><td>Person</td><td>#team-fall-river</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Providence, Rhode Island</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City D. Robbins Tien, MD is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
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<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the pediatric ophthalmologists in Providence, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
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<li>Best pediatric ophthalmologists in Providence: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ri/providence/pediatric-ophthalmologist</li>
<li>Best businesses in Providence: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ri/providence</li>
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<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in Rhode Island: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ri</li>
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<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
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<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJh6suamhF5IkRYEjt4V9W7rY (accessed Jul 16, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] brownhealth.org, https://www.brownhealth.org/be-well/glaucoma-silent-thief-sight (accessed Sep 18, 2026)</li>
<li>[3] AI engine output: ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 16, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)</li>
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