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Statistics
- 581 total beds
- 36 pediatric inpatient beds
- 25 bed newborn nursery
- 18 bed neonatal ICU
- 6 bed pediatric ICU
- 3,600 inpatient admissions
- 2,600 deliveries
- 50,000 outpatient visits
- 31,000 emergency department visits
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| Boston Medical Center main entrance |
In July 1996, Boston City Hospital, Boston Specialty and Rehabilitation Hospital, and Boston University Medical Center merged to form Boston Medical Center (BMC). Through its partnership with Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Health Net neighborhood health centers, BMC continues the mission set forth by Boston City Hospital more than 125 years ago--to provide medical care to the residents of Boston. Last year, the Department of Pediatrics at BMC provided care to more than 3,600 pediatric inpatients, 50,000 outpatients, and 31,000 patients in the emergency department. The neighborhood health centers, which provide continuity clinic sites for house officer training, contribute an additional 75,000 ambulatory visits each year to the program. Boston Health Net reflects our commitment to Community Care by combining BMC with 15 community based health centers into an integrated service delivery network.
A state-of-the-art inpatient facility opened in January 1994. There is a 36-bed pediatric unit, a six-bed pediatric intensive care unit, a 18-bed level III neonatal intensive care unit and a 25-bed normal newborn nursery. There are approximately 2,600 deliveries each year, 40 percent of which are high risk. There are 25 outpatient programs including primary care, adolescent and a variety of specialty programs, many of which are directed towards health care issues of urban children due to poverty.
The Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, named for the world-renowned investigator of bacterial diseases and antibiotics, houses the laboratories of the divisions of pediatric infectious diseases, immunology, pulmonary, and molecular biology. Research in these laboratories focuses on problems of urban children.
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| Finland Laboratory Building |
Finland Laboratory Building
In 1968, the Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases was established at BCH in honor of Dr. Maxwell Finland, a leading clinical investigator in infectious diseases whose career spanned over five decades at Boston City Hospital. One of the remaining buildings of the original Boston City Hospital era, the Finland Lab now houses the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease.
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| Yawkey Ambulatory Care Center |
Yawkey Ambulatory Care Center
Home to all Ambulatory Care Programs at BMC, the Pediatric Department Programs are located on the fifth floor of the Yawkey Ambulatory Care Center Building. Residents who select BMC as their continuity practice site will be based here at BMC.
The Department of Pediatrics provides extensive services to its patients in this ambulatory site, including a food pantry, clinic-based literacy program (Reach Out and Read) and specialized Health Services screening for our patients and their families (Project Health Help Desk).
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| Isadore Talbot Building |
Isadore Talbot Building
The Talbot Building demonstrates the beautiful architecture of turn-of-the-century Boston. It was the original site of the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital (predecessor to BMC) and is now renovated on the BMC campus and is the site of the Boston University School of Public Health.
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| Joseph P. Moakley Building |
Moakley Cancer Care Building
With the November 2006 opening of the Moakley Building, Boston Medical Center had reached its goal of providing a best-in-class, centralized cancer and ambulatory care facility that embodies our commitment to provide exceptional care, without exception. Named in honor of the late Congressman John Joseph Moakley, a devoted champion of BMC, the building is designed to streamline care by consolidating the diagnostic and cancer treatments that were scattered across the 16-square-block Medical Campus. The latest equipment and technology supplement the services offered, including the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and digestive and otolaryngology disorders, a breast health center, and an ambulatory surgery center.
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