Boston Medical Center | |||||||||||
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Boston University | |||||||||||
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Location | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°20′06″N71°04′25″W / 42.3349°N 71.0735°W | ||||||||||
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Care system | Private, Medicare, Medicaid | ||||||||||
Type | Teaching | ||||||||||
Affiliated university | Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine | ||||||||||
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Emergency department | 1 | ||||||||||
Beds | 514 | ||||||||||
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Helipad | (FAA LID: 0MA4) | ||||||||||
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Public transit access | MBTA
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Opened | 1855 | ||||||||||
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Website | www.bmc.org | ||||||||||
Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts |
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. [1] 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. [2] [3]
Boston City Hospital was the first municipal hospital in the United States, opening in 1864. [4]
In 1960 Boston University's Medical School founded the Boston University Medical Center in the South End neighborhood to provide residency programs and research opportunities for students and faculty. [5]
Two years later Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals president Jerome Preston and Boston University president Harold C. Case announced a merger of Boston University Medical Center and the creation of a new board of trustees to oversee the institution with the stated purpose "to provide and maintain better health in contemporary society." This agreement replaced an earlier 1959 compact of association. [6] The following year Massachusetts Memorial Hospital as a constituent of the Boston Univeristy Medical Center Hospital would announce their first year without a deficit. [7] In 1994 Boston University Medical Center and the East Boston Community Medical Center created an equal joint partnership to purchase the Winthrop Hospital. [8]
By 1996 Boston City Hospital had an expected budgetary loss of $150 Million dollars over the next five years. Due in large part to these issues Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was a major proponent of a merger setting a July 1st deadline for such a deal. He stated the merger is "the most important thing I will do as mayor." Boston City Council voted 9-4 on June 29th of 1996 in favor of a merging Boston City Hospital and the Boston University Medical Center to create the new Boston Medical Center. The new combined hospital had over 3,800 employees and more emergency room visits than any other hospital in New England. [9]
From 2015 through 2018, BMC undertook a campus redesign project to update clinical spaces, improve efficiencies, and better serve patients. This project included the closure of the Newton Pavilion and the relocation of the services previously in the building to other parts of the hospital campus. [10]
In August 2024, amid the bankruptcy proceedings of Steward Health Care, the Massachusetts governor's office announced that BMC would acquire two of Steward's hospitals. [11] BMC on October 1, 2024 finalized its purchase of Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. The Commonwealth seized the property of the latter through eminent domain to facilitate its transfer to BMC. [12]
BMC offers care in four primary care practices (Adult Primary Care, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Geriatrics) and more than 70 specialties and subspecialties, including seven areas that have been named US News high performers. [13] As a Level I Trauma Center, the hospital is the busiest center for trauma and emergency services in New England, and the 11th busiest emergency department in the U.S. [14]
Boston Medical Center has a rooftop farm, which grows produce for its patients and their food pantry program. In 2022, the farm was recognized by the White House. [15] The farm yields some 5,600 pounds of produce each year. [16] According to Greenroofs, "the rooftop farm has 2,658 square feet of growing space and harvests about 25 different crops". [17]
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.
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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.
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.
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UMass Memorial Health (UMM Health) is a non-profit healthcare network based in Worcester, Massachusetts, operated by the University of Massachusetts and primarily serving Central Massachusetts. It is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts, and is the clinical partner of the UMass Chan Medical School.
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North Adams Regional Hospital is a full-service community hospital in North Adams, Massachusetts. It serves the Northern Berkshire communities of Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, Lanesborough, North Adams, Savoy, Williamstown and communities in southern Vermont and in eastern New York state. The hospital is part of Northern Berkshire Healthcare (NBH), a not-for-profit organization. NBH originally closed it on March 28, 2014. Ten years to the day of its closing, on March 28, 2024, it reopened as a hospital after serving as a 24-hour emergency hospital and de facto urgent care facility.
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