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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.
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.
Bullfinch building, featuring Ether DomeWith 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."
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.
Though it has its own chief of psychiatry, MGH is closely affiliated with nearby
McLean Hospital, which is also affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
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 , receiving over $285
million dollars alone in 2004 . MGH is also home to the world-renowed
Mallinckrodt General Clinical Research Center.
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 .
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