Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and one of the founding members of Beth Israel Lahey Health. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital. Among independent teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has ranked in the top three recipients of biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Research funding totals nearly $200 million annually. BIDMC researchers run more than 850 active sponsored projects and 200 clinical trials. The Harvard-Thorndike General Clinical Research Center, the oldest clinical research laboratory in the United States, has been located on this site since 1973.
Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a non-profit 514-bed academic medical center and safety-net hospital in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. As part of the Boston Medical Center Health System, the hospital provides primary and specialty care to residents of the Greater Boston area. It is also the principal teaching hospital of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and home to 66 residency and fellowship training programs.
New England Baptist Hospital (NEBH) is a 141-bed adult medical-surgical hospital in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in orthopedic care and complex orthopedic procedures. NEBH is an international leader in the treatment of all forms of musculoskeletal disorders and diseases.
New England Life Flight, d/b/a Boston MedFlight, is a non-profit organization that provides emergency scene response and emergency interfacility transfer in Eastern Massachusetts at the Critical Care level using helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and ground ambulances.
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is a mid-size for-profit teaching hospital located in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. St. Elizabeth's is a part of Dallas-based Steward Health Care System, a private, for-profit health care system which took over the hospital in 2010 as part of its acquisition of the non-profit Caritas Christi Health Care system from the Archdiocese of Boston.
The Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, formerly known as the Lahey Clinic, is a physician-led nonprofit teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine based in Burlington, Massachusetts. The hospital was founded in Boston in 1923 by surgeon Frank H. Lahey, M.D., and is managed by Beth Israel Lahey Health. U.S. News & World Report has cited it several times on its list of "America's Best Hospitals" in the category of urology.
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth is a mid-sized non-profit community hospital located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 2022, the hospital had 187 licensed beds and reported 11,720 patient discharges and 42,367 emergency department visits.
Quincy Medical Center was a small for-profit community hospital located in Quincy, Massachusetts for 124 years, from 1890 to 2014. A municipal hospital for most of its existence, it transitioned to non-profit in 1999 and then for-profit when it was purchased by Steward Health Care in 2011. It was closed in 2014 due to year of financial difficulties, though Steward's nearby Carney Hospital continued to operate the former hospital's ED as a stand-alone on the same site until 2020.
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton is a mid-size non-profit community hospital located in Milton, Massachusetts. A member of Beth Israel Lahey Health, in 2022 the hospital had 102 beds, discharged 5,335 inpatients, and operated with total revenues of $136 million at a deficit of $14 million.
MelroseWakefield Hospital is a 174-bed non-profit hospital located in Melrose, Massachusetts. MelroseWakefield Hospital and Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford function as one hospital entity with two campus locations. The MelroseWakefield Hospital campus provides many different areas of inpatient patient care including general surgery, interventional cardiovascular services, gynecology, maternity, special care nursery, orthopedics, and urology. It also offers outpatient care such as same day surgery, endoscopy, imaging and emergency services as well as serving as the region's Level III Trauma Center.
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a non-profit health services company based in Canton, Massachusetts serving the New England region of the United States.
Mount Auburn Hospital (MAH) is a community hospital with a patient capacity of about 200 beds in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its main campus is located at 330 Mount Auburn St, in the neighborhood of West Cambridge. It has become an affiliated teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
Steward Health Care is a large private for-profit health system headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It utilizes an integrated care model to deliver healthcare across its hospitals and primary care locations, as well as through its managed care and health insurance services. As of the start of 2024, Steward operated 33 hospitals and employed 33,000 people in the United States. Steward's international ventures include Steward Colombia, which operates four hospitals, and Steward Middle East, which operates in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The company is in bankruptcy as of May 2024.
Atrius Health is a Massachusetts based healthcare organization with a system of connected care for adult and pediatric patients in eastern and central Massachusetts. Atrius Health's medical practices work together with the home health and hospice services of its VNA Care subsidiary and in collaboration with hospital partners, community specialists and skilled nursing facilities. Atrius was acquired by Optum on May 31, 2022, which caused it to lose its tax-exempt status, although its charitable assets were transferred to the Atrius Health Equity Foundation.
Lahey Health System, commonly known as Lahey Health, was an organization based in Burlington, Massachusetts. It managed hospitals, physicians and other health services in northeastern Massachusetts. When formed in 2012, the organization was estimated at a value of $1.2 billion dollars. As of 2013, it had hospitals in Burlington, Peabody, Beverly, and Gloucester, including Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Beverly Hospital and Addison Gilbert Hospital.
Mitchell T. Rabkin is an American physician and Distinguished Institute Scholar at the Shapiro Institute, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and CEO Emeritus at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Tufts Health Plan was a Massachusetts-based non-profit health insurance company under Tufts Associated Health Plans, Inc. with headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts. It completed a merger with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care on January 1, 2021, making the then unnamed company the second-largest health insurer in Massachusetts. The merger had been announced on August 14, 2019; the combined company serves 2.4 million members in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. On June 15, 2021, the new name of the parent company was announced as Point32Health, named for the 32 points on a compass.
BayRidge Hospital is a non-profit inpatient behavioral health hospital located in Lynn, Massachusetts, operated by nearby Beverly Hospital. The hospital opened in 1996. Beverly Hospital's parent company, non-profit Northeast Health System, affiliated with Lahey Clinic in 2011, forming Lahey Health System. Lahey Health merged with Beth Israel Deaconess in 2019, creating Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH). Today, BayRidge remains operated by Beverly Hospital, under the BILH banner.
Ralph de la Torre is a Cuban American health care executive and former cardiac surgeon. The founder, CEO and majority owner of Steward Health Care since 2010, and previously CEO of its predecessor Caritas Christi Health Care starting in 2008, de la Torre also served as the first head of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's CardioVascular Institute from 2007 to 2008. He is also the subject of a Boston Globe Spotlight investigation that details how, as the troubled Steward Health Care spiralled into bankruptcy, Ralph de la Torre used its bank account as his own.[]
