Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), located in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, is one of the three major teaching hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School. It is the flagship hospital of the Caregroup Healthcare System of Massachusetts, and was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded in 1896). After the merger, the hospital was split up into two campuses, the East (Beth Israel) and the West (former Deaconess). The East Campus retained most primary care, inpatient, clinical and administrative functions, while the emergency department, the department of human resources, and many specialists were moved to the West Campus. The merger coincided with the completion of the ten-story Shapiro Clinical Center (at the corner of Brookline and Longwood Avenues, in space formerly occupied by the Massachusetts College of Art), which houses most the hospital's outpatient services. In addition to its clinical services, BIDMC supports a significant amount of clinical and bench research, which takes place in labs throughout its two campuses, as well as research buildings of Harvard Medical School. Research investigators receive a substantial amount of funding from both NIH and private industry to support their work. The hospital ranks third in NIH funding in the U.S. for independent hospitals.
BIDMC is a level 1 trauma center, and part of the consortium of hospitals which operates Boston MedFlight. BIDMC is one of the largest hospitals in New England, surpassed only by Massachusetts General Hospital, also in Boston. The hospital's current president is Paul F. Levy, who assumed the role in late 2001.
In 2003 the instituiton formed a partnership with the Boston Red Sox, allowing it to be billed as the "official" hospital of the team. The institution is affiliated with Joslin Diabetes Center.
The East Campus is located at 330 Brookline Avenue in the Longwood Medical Area. The West Campus is nearly diagonally across the street, at 1 Deaconess Road. A number of other non-clinical, administrative offices (e.g. payroll, accounts payable, telecommunications) are located offsite, in offices scattered throughout the area.
BIDMC sponsors numerous post-graduate medical residency programs in a variety of medical subspecialties, including internal medicine, surgery, pathology, radiology, and others.
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