Newton-Wellesley Hospital

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Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Mass General Brigham
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Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Geography
Location2014 Washington St., Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates 42°19′58.26″N71°14′46.33″W / 42.3328500°N 71.2462028°W / 42.3328500; -71.2462028
Organization
Type Nonprofit, Community Teaching
Affiliated university Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Services
Emergency department Level II trauma center
Beds273 [1]
History
Opened1881 [2]
Links
Website www.nwh.org
Lists Hospitals in Massachusetts
Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District
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One of the hospital's historic buildings
Location2014 Washington St., Newton, Massachusetts
Built1894
ArchitectHartwell & Richardson; Et al.
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival
MPS Newton MRA
NRHP reference No. 90000108 [3]
Added to NRHPFebruary 21, 1990

Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is a community teaching medical center located in Newton, Massachusetts on Washington Street. It is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1881, part of its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District.

Contents

It is a member of Mass General Brigham, a network founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The hospital offers a range of medical, surgical, and specialty care, including maternity services, a 24-hour emergency department, and orthopedic, critical care, and oncology inpatient units. [4]

History

Newton-Wellesley Hospital, originally called Newton Cottage Hospital, was incorporated in 1881. The idea for the hospital began when a local reverend, George W. Shinn, encouraged the mayor of Newton, Royal M. Pulsifer, to provide health care services for sick members of the community. Nine acres were purchased for the building. The hospital opened its doors on June 5, 1886 and admitted its first patient a week later. As a cottage hospital, Newton-Wellesley was built to serve the local population. It consisted of a complex of buildings, radiating from a central administrative building. Patients were cared for in windowed ward rooms, one story high. [5]

A School of Nursing was established at the hospital in 1888. The first baby was born there in 1890 (by 1965, 50,000 babies had been delivered, including the hospital's first in-vitro baby). Newton-Wellesley acquired its first X-ray machine in 1902, and an electrocardiograph in 1933. In 1910, the outpatient department was opened at the hospital. Most outpatient departments at the time consisted of a doctor and a nurse. But Newton-Wellesley offered a variety of services, each attended by a specialist. The department had an orthopedic service, one of only two in the Boston community. [5] A complex of eleven modestly-scaled buildings (compared to modern hospital facilities), most constructed between 1894 and 1908, were the subject of the 1990 "Newton Cottage Hospital" listing on the National Register of Historic Places. [6] Several of the listed buildings have since been demolished. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

In response to the influx of patients resulting from the combination of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the hospital erected a number of tents and temporary buildings. Patient records began to be kept in 1920, followed in 1924 by the establishment of an official hospital laboratory for bloodwork and urinalyses; the blood bank was first added in 1939. In 1955, the first pacemaker operation at the hospital was performed, followed by the first cardiac catheterization in 1993. The Wikstrom Surgical Center opened in 1993, providing 16 operating rooms, pre-operative and post-anesthesia areas, and a permanent MRI suite.

In 1999, Newton-Wellesley Hospital joined Partners HealthCare, now Mass General Brigham; it affiliated with MassGeneral Hospital for Children in 2001. A number of new centers were created, including the Spine Center (founded by Andrew C. Hecht in 2001), the Waltham Urgent Care Center (2003), and Maxwell Blum Emergency Pavilion (2007) and the Vernon Cancer Center (construction began 2008 [12] ).

Facilities and current operations

There are 273 available beds and more than 21,000 discharges every year at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. On average, there are 56,000 visits in the emergency room yearly and more than 3,700 babies born. 14,000 surgical cases are seen each year. [1] The hospital employs approximately 2,500 people.

The main campus of Newton-Wellesley is located at 2014 Washington Street, Newton, Massachusetts, near the intersection of Routes 16 & 128 (I-95), one mile south of the Mass. Pike (I-90). The closest MBTA stop is Woodland, two blocks from the hospital on the D (Riverside) Branch of the MBTA Green Line. [13]

An additional urgent care treatment facility is located offsite at the Waltham Urgent Care Center at 9 Hope Avenue in Waltham, MA. [14] Laboratory Services also has offsite locations in Natick, Walpole, Waltham and Weston. [15]

Hospital rating data

The HealthGrades website contains the clinical quality data for Newton-Wellesley Hospital, as of 2018. For this rating section clinical quality rating data and patient safety ratings are presented.

For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital the data for this category is:

For patient safety ratings the same three possible ratings are used. For this hospital they are:

Percent of patients who would rate this hospital as a 9 or 10: 81%.

Percent of patients nationally who rate hospitals on average a 9 or 10: 69%. [16]

Ratings

NWH has received the Boston Globe 's Top Places to Work Award in 2010 and 2011. [17] [18] U.S. News Media & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings recognized Newton- Wellesley as high performing in Urology. [19] The hospital was designated as an Aetna Institutes™ of Quality for Bariatric Surgery in 2011. [20] Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts recognized Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) with a 2011 Blue Distinction Designation for demonstrating reliability in delivering spine surgery with better overall outcomes for patients. [21] Newton-Wellesley Hospital's medical oncology partner, New England Hematology/Oncology Associates (NEHOA), became one of the first oncology practices in the nation to be recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®) Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). [22] The hospital received the 2011 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award. [23] Fifty-four physicians affiliated with Newton-Wellesley appeared on the Best Doctors in America® list for 2011-12. [24] The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) recognized Newton-Wellesley Hospital as one of 26 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals in the United States that have achieved exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care. [25] Newton-Wellesley Hospital received The American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s 2010 Get With The Guidelines® Triple Gold Performance Achievement Award for achievement in coronary artery disease, stroke and/or heart failure treatment. [26] In 2010, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts recognized Newton-Wellesley Hospital with a Blue Distinction® Designation for demonstrating reliability in delivering knee/hip replacement with better overall outcomes for patients. [27] Boston magazine featured Newton-Wellesley Hospital in their 2010 annual "Top Doctors" issue as a top community hospital outside of Boston. The article also features 24 Newton-Wellesley Hospital physicians as top doctors in the state. [28]

Clinical centers

Clinical Centers at Newton-Wellesley include:

Notable births

The early years

Nursing early years

Then and Now

By the Numbers

See also

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