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Massachusetts General Hospital (often abbreviated to "Mass General" or just "MGH") is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and biomedical research facility in Boston, Massachusetts. It is owned and operated by Partners HealthCare (which also owns Brigham and Women's Hospital and North Shore Medical Center). Also, it is part of the consortium of hospitals which operates Boston MedFlight and a member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 520 pixelsFull resolution (3447 × 2239 pixel, file size: 858 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Image of Massachusetts General Hospital. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area Ranked 44th - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²) - Width 183 miles (295 km) - Length 113 miles (182 km) - % water 13. ...
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A university hospital is an institution which combines the services of a hospital with the education of medical students and with medical research. ...
A university hospital is an institution which combines the services of a hospital with the education of medical students and with medical research. ...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ...
The emergency department (ED), sometimes termed the emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW), accident & emergency (A&E) department or casualty department is a hospital or primary care department that provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be life-threatening and...
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A Teaching hospital is a hospital which provides medical training. ...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ...
Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Settled 1630 Incorporated (city) 1822 Government - Governor Deval Patrick (D) Area - City 89. ...
Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. ...
Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Boston MedFlight (BMF) is a non-profit organization that provides emergency transport to Boston area hospitals. ...
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centeris the largest National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the nation. ...
History
Founded in 1811, the original hospital was designed by the famous American architect Charles Bulfinch. It is the oldest general hospital in the United States, and the oldest and largest in New England. John Warren, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Harvard Medical School, which was located in Cambridge then, spearheaded the move of the medical school to Boston. Warren's son, John Collins Warren, along with James Jackson, led the efforts to start the Massachusetts General Hospital. Since all those who had sufficient money were cared for at home, Massachusetts General Hospital, like most hospitals that were founded in the 19th century, was intended to care for the poor. [1] During mid- to late-1800's, Harvard Medical School was located adjacent to Massachusetts General Hospital. 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
The Massachusetts State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch and completed in 1798. ...
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Early use of anesthesia It was in the Ether Dome of MGH on October 16, 1846 that one of the first demonstrations of ether was presented to the medical profession to produce insensibility to pain by William Thomas Green Morton, a Boston dentist. An operation was performed on that date to remove a blood vessel tumor from the neck of a Cambridge, MA printer, William Abbott. The MGH Chief of Surgery, John Collins Warren performed the surgery and remarked "Gentlemen this is no humbug." News of the remarkable "new" invention rapidly traveled around the world. The actual first documented use of ether to render a patient unconscious prior to surgery was performed on March 30, 1842, by Dr. Crawford Long of Danielsville, Georgia. The term anesthesia was suggested for the insensible state by Oliver Wendell Holmes, then a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A modern anesthesia department was established at the hospital in 1936 under the leadership of Henry Knowles Beecher. The Ether Dome still exists and is open to the public. It is one of the oldest operating theaters in existence. It contains a remarkable painting of the event by Warren and Lucia Prosperi. The Ether Dome was the operating room of the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. ...
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Current operations The hospital has 898 beds and admits over 45,000 patients each year. The surgical staff performs over 34,000 operations yearly. The obstetrics service handles over 3,500 births each year. The hospital handles over 1 million outpatients each year at its main campus, as well as its five satellite facilities in Boston at Back Bay, Charlestown, Chelsea, Everett, and Revere. Architect Hisham N. Ashkouri, working in conjunction with Hoskins Scott Taylor and Partners, provided the space designs and schematics for the pediatrics, neonatal intensive care, and in-patient related floors, as well as the third floor surgical suites and support facilities. Obstetrics (from the Latin obstare, to stand by) is the surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period shortly after birth). ...
Hisham N. Ashkouri Portrait Hisham N. Ashkouri (born August 15, 1948, Baghdad, Iraq) is a Boston and New York-based architect. ...
In 2003, MGH was named the state's first Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association. Magnet recognition represents the highest honor awarded for nursing excellence.
In the fall of 2004, the Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care opened. This 440,000 square feet, ten floor facility is the largest and most comprehensive outpatient building in New England. Jean R. Yawkey (January 1, 1909 - February 2, 1992) was a native of Brooklyn, New York. ...
 Bullfinch building, featuring Ether Dome With more than 10,000 employees, the hospital is the largest non-governmental employer in Boston. It is sometimes jokingly described as "The Medical-Industrial Complex." ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1216 KB) Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Massachusetts General Hospital is affiliated with Harvard Medical School and is its original teaching hospital. MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $400 million. Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ...
Though it has its own chief of psychiatry, MGH is closely affiliated with nearby McLean Hospital, which is also affiliated with Harvard Medical School. McLean Hospital (pronounced Mc-Lane) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. It is noted for its clinical staff expertise and ground-breaking neuroscience research. ...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ...
It consistently ranks as one of the country's top hospitals in U.S. News and World Report. Since 1994, MGH has been awarded the most research funding for an independent hospital by the National Institutes of Health [2], receiving over $285 million dollars alone in 2004 [3]. MGH is also home to the world-renowed Mallinckrodt General Clinical Research Center. U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...
The Mallinckrodt MGH General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) is a research center at Massachusetts General Hospital. ...
MGH is located at 55 Fruit Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The campus is in an area formerly known as the West End, adjacent to the Charles River and Beacon Hill. The closest MBTA stop is Charles/MGH on the Red Line. On 27 March 2007, the new Charles/MGH station was opened with new renovations, including handicap accessible elevators [4]. The West End of Boston, Massachusetts is a neighborhood bounded generally by Cambridge Street to the south, the Charles River to the west and northwest, Martha Road and Lomasney Way on the north and northeast, and Staniford Street on the west. ...
The Charles River from the Boston side, facing Cambridge and the main campus of Harvard University. ...
Cutting down Beacon Hill, about 1800; a view from the north toward the Massachusetts State House. ...
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is a quasi-governmental organization formed in 1964 that controls the subway, bus, commuter rail, and ferry systems in the Boston, Massachusetts area. ...
Charles/MGH Station, December 2004 Charles/MGH Station is located at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Charles Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Charles/MGH Station, December 2004 Charles/MGH Station is located at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Charles Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Trivia - MGH nurses were featured in a four-part, front-page series in The Boston Globe entitled "Critical care: The making of an ICU nurse", which is being used in nursing schools throughout the country.
- MGH distributes Shasta soda beverages to its patients. All vending facilities vend Coca-Cola products. There are five main food service areas for the general public. They include the Eat Street Cafe in the lower level of the Ellison Building, the Blossom Street Cafe in the Cox lobby, Coffee Central in the White lobby, Tea Leaves and Coffee Beans in the Wang Ambulatory Care Center, and Coffee South in the Yawkey outpatient center.
- MGH is referred to as "MBH" or "Man's Best Hospital" in Samuel Shem's satirical novel, The House of God; also as "Man's Greatest Hospital".
- There have been several mentions of Massachusetts General Hospital in fictional television series and movies:
- In the long-running series M*A*S*H, the character Major Charles Emerson Winchester III was said to have previously worked at the hospital as a thoracic surgeon. Incorrect entry. Major Winchester worked at Boston General Hospital. Some have assumed the name gave props to Massachusetts General and Boston City.
- In the series "St. Elsewhere", the doctors of St. Elsewhere often make references to Boston General Hospital, which could be interpreted as a reference to MGH.
- In the series Arrested Development, Tobias Fünke worked at the hospital as chief resident during his psychiatry training.
- In the series Alias, Arvin Sloane mentions that Sydney's psychiatrist trained at the hospital.
- In the movie Sleeping with the Enemy, an MGH neurologist gives the characters of Julia Roberts and Patrick Bergen a ride on his sailboat off the coast of Cape Cod.
- In the movie Malice, the lead character played by Alec Baldwin is an MGH-trained surgeon with a "God complex".
- In an episode of House, Dr. Gregory House fakes brain cancer in order to participate in a clinical trial at the MGH. The experimental anti-depressant would have given Dr. House, addicted to painkillers, a powerful high.
- Residents, students, and area paramedics have fondly referred to the hospital as "Massive Genital Hospital."
- The hospital's morgue previously faced Allen St., which provides the hospital employee's code-name or euphemism for the morgue, or even death in general — "moved to Allen St.".
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Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ...
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