Press Releases/News And Announcements
Spaulding Hospital North Shore Honored by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
5/15/2012
Representatives from the U.S. State Department with a letter from Secretary of State Clinton returned to Spaulding Hospital North Shore in Salem, the main treatment facility, to thank and honor the Spaulding staff who treated 22 wounded Libyan freedom fighters last fall.
Press Releases/In The Community
Partners HealthCare Announces $10 Million Dollars in College Scholarships to Benefit More Than 400 Boston Area Students
5/7/2012
Partners HealthCare and its founding hospitals – Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals – announces a new, long-term commitment to provide college scholarships to more than 400 students participating in the hospitals’ youth achievement programs.
Press Releases/In The Community
Partners HealthCare Commits $2.2 Million to Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
5/2/2012
The funds will be used to support a wide range of workforce development programs -- including training and technical assistance -- as the role of health centers continues to expand and evolve in Massachusetts’ rapidly changing health care landscape.
Press Releases/Partners People
NSMC cardiac surgeon honored by Essex South District Medical Society as 2012 Community Clinician of the Year
4/11/2012
NSMC cardiac surgeon honored by Essex South District Medical Society as 2012 Community Clinician of the Year
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Mom’s Voice May Improve the Health of Premature Babies
3/7/2012
New research conducted by Amir Lahav, ScD, PhD, director of the Neonatal Research Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, links exposure to an audio recording of mom’s heartbeat and her voice to lower incidence of cardiorespiratory events in preterm infants.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Multi-National Clinical Trial Shows Effectiveness of Amantadine in Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
3/1/2012
A multi-national study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed a significant breakthrough in the treatment of patients in vegetative and minimally conscious states. The study leader is the Director of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
Press Releases/In The Community
Partners HealthCare Promotes Healthy Living In Four Cities North of Boston
3/1/2012
Partners HealthCare today announced that it is committing $240,000 a piece to the cities of Chelsea, Lynn, Revere, and Salem to help those communities improve the health of their residents and ultimately help slow the growth in health care spending.
Press Releases/In The Community
Partners HealthCare Expands Partners Step It Up Program to Six Boston Public Elementary Schools to Help Students Live Active, Healthy Lives
2/29/2012
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited the Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School in Dorchester, and was given a demonstration of Partners Step It Up.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Spaulding Therapy and Nursing Center West Roxbury Recognized by U.S. News & World Report in 2012 Best Nursing Homes
2/9/2012
Spaulding Therapy and Nursing Center West Roxbury has received a high ranking of five stars overall in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Nursing Homes. The evaluation recognizes top-rated homes in all 50 states.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Partners Reaches New Agreement with Tufts Health Plan
1/18/2012
Partners HealthCare has reached an agreement with Tufts Health Plan, which will reduce the growth in health care spending by more than $105 million over the next four years.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Partners HealthCare Selected as 'Pioneer' ACO
12/19/2011
Partners HealthCare has been selected to participate in a new Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model. The initiative aims to transform the way that health care is delivered by providing Medicare patients with higher quality, while slowing cost growth through enhanced care coordination.
Press Releases/In The Community
Secretary JudyAnn Bigby, MD joins Spaulding Rehabilitation Network and Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission to Launch Working Partners Program
11/22/2011
Working Partners is a first of its kind public/private partnership designed to enable persons with disabilities new avenues to employment.
Press Releases/In The Community
How to Talk With Young People About Healthy Living; State House Forum Draws Hundreds
11/15/2011
Community and legislative leaders heard directly from young people about the importance of healthy living as part of an effort to address the epidemic of childhood obesity at an educational forum presented by Partners HealthCare and Words Can Work®.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Spaulding Hosts Expert Discussion of Post Concussion Syndrome in "From Battlefield to Ball Fields" Panel
11/8/2011
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network (SRN) and the Harvard Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation recently hosted its annual Ralph and Irene Epstein Rosenthal Memorial Lecture on the topic of post concussion syndrome.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Partners HealthCare Earns 'Top Place To Work' Honors Honors From The Boston Globe
11/7/2011
Partners HealthCare has been named one of The Boston Globe’s 2011 Top Places to Work in Massachusetts. The Top Places to Work recognizes the most progressive companies in the state based on employee opinions.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
MGH Institute Raises $388,000 For Student Scholarships
11/1/2011
More than 360 people attended the event, held in the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Partners HealthCare President and CEO Gary Gottlieb, MD, who was the evening’s Special Guest, spoke about the important role the health sciences graduate school plays within Partners.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Spaulding Hospital North Shore Selected to Treat Libyan War Wounded
11/1/2011
The Libyan National Transition Council with support from the US Government reached out to care facilities in the United States for experts in rehabilitative care and selected the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network to begin to treat some of the wounded Libyan fighters.
Press Releases/In The Community
Costumed Babies Reunite at North Shore Medical Center
10/27/2011
Some of North Shore Medical Center Salem Hospital’s tiniest patients were invited back to the hospital for a festive, Halloween-themed reunion to celebrate their miraculous births and recoveries.
Press Releases/In The Community
Spaulding and Partners HealthCare Host Premiere Showing for the Boston Community of PBS Independent Lens Film “Lives Worth Living”
10/26/2011
In honor of National Disability Awareness Month, health care leaders Spaulding Rehabilitation Network and Partners HealthCare hosted area leaders, health care professionals, elected officials, and members of the community with disabilities for a special viewing of the film Lives Worth Living.
Press Releases/Innovation And Research
Partners HealthCare Center for Connected Health Awarded McKesson Foundation Grant to Develop Text Messaging Program for Diabetes Patients
10/19/2011
The goal of the Mobilizing for Health initiative is to improve health outcomes among under-served patients with chronic diseases using mobile health technologies that have proven successful.
Press Releases/Innovation And Research
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Selected by NIDRR as an Spinal Cord Injury Model System Site
10/7/2011
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital announced today that it’s Spinal Cord Injury Program has been selected as a Spinal Cord Injury Model System site by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Partners HealthCare Delivers $240 Million in Savings to Consumers
10/5/2011
Partners HealthCare has reached an agreement with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that will reduce the growth in health care spending by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars over the next three years.
Press Releases/In The Community
NE Revolution, Spaulding, and Mass General Offered Free Youth with Disabilities Soccer Clinic
10/3/2011
The New England Revolution, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network and Massachusetts General Hospital partnered for the seventh year to host a free Youth with Disabilities Soccer Clinic on Tuesday, September 27th at the Dana Farber Field House at Gillette Stadium.
Press Releases/In The Community
Partners HealthCare Celebrates Employee Citizenship Program
9/27/2011
Partners HealthCare celebrated dozens of employees attaining citizenship through a new workforce development program, available at hospitals and locations throughout the Partners system.
Press Releases/In The Community
Partners HealthCare is Connecting Pregnant Women to Care with Text Messaging
9/15/2011
Pregnant moms at Brookside Community Health Center in Jamaica Plain will be participating in an innovative text messaging program that is designed to offer support and encourage the recommended level of prenatal care.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Andrew Ference Brings the Stanley Cup to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
9/8/2011
Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference brought the Stanley Cup to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital during his day with the cup. Ference boosted patient morale with his visit.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals Ranked on U.S. News National Honor Roll
7/19/2011
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), the founders of Partners HealthCare, rank among the nation’s top ten hospitals on the U.S. News & World Report annual Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals. MGH ranked second nationally and BWH ranked eighth.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Spaulding’s Institute of Lifestyle Medicine honored with a President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition Community Leadership Award
7/7/2011
The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN) has selected the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM), based at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network and Harvard Medical School’s Dept. of PM&R, to receive a 2011 PCFSN Community Leadership Award.
Press Releases/Innovation And Research
BWH Research Lab Receives NIH Program of Excellence Award in Glycosciences
7/6/2011
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a BWH research lab the Program of Excellence Award to support investigations in glycobiology, the discipline which studies how sugars direct biologic processes.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Partners HealthCare Named one of Computerworld’s 100 Best IT Employers for 2011
6/27/2011
For the sixth consecutive time, Partners HealthCare has been named one of Computerworld’s “100 Best Places to Work in IT.” The distinction was earned in part because Partners, “makes it a habit to listen to its employees” and a focus “entirely on what the employee wants for his career.”
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Haiti rehabilitation hospital, education center unveiled
6/2/2011
The hospital in St. Marc is due to break ground later this summer, with a projected completion date in March 2012. The center’s education and training program is scheduled to begin in September 2011, housed in temporary quarters until the facility opens.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Partners ranked as one of nation's top health systems
5/31/2011
Partners HealthCare was today named one of the nation’s 10 Top Health Systems by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Kraft Family National Center for Leadership and Training in Community Health announces Fellowship Program
5/26/2011
The Kraft Family National Center for Leadership and Training in Community Health is pleased to announce an innovative, multidisciplinary, two-year fellowship in community health to begin in July 2012.
Press Releases/Innovation And Research
Human Lung Stem Cell Discovered at BWH
5/11/2011
For the first time, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a human lung stem cell that is self-renewing and capable of forming and integrating multiple biological structures of the lung including bronchioles, alveoli and pulmonary vessels.
Press Releases/Innovation And Research
Statement from Gary Gottlieb, Partners President and CEO, on the passing of James J. Mongan
5/3/2011
Passing of James Mongan, past President and CEO of Partners HealthCare
Press Releases/In The Community
Partners HealthCare Sponsors Community Health Forum About Bullying
4/28/2011
Community and legislative leaders heard directly from young people about their ordeals with bullying at an educational forum at the Massachusetts State House this morning.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Partners HealthCare Names Noga Chief Information Officer
4/1/2011
Partners HealthCare today announced the appointment of James Noga as Chief Information Officer. In this role, Noga will be responsible for the development and oversight of all health information systems at Partners HealthCare.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
In New Video, Health Executives Urge Colleagues to Develop Sustainable Operations ‘Going Green’ Reduces Costs, Improves Health of Patients, Staff and Environment
3/4/2011
Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm, in support of the Healthier Hospital Initiative, have produced the first in a series of videos.
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Kraft Family, Partners HealthCare To Establish National Center for Community Health
1/10/2011
Robert and Myra Kraft and Partners HealthCare today announced the creation of a new center whose mission is to improve access and quality of health ca
Press Releases/News And Announcements
Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitas ranked on U.S. National News Honor Roll
7/15/2010
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), the founders of Partners HealthCare, have again ranked among the nation’s
