PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Located in Boston, Partners HealthCare is an integrated health system founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in 1994. In addition to these two major academic medical centers, the Partners HealthCare System also includes community hospitals, specialty hospitals, community health centers, a physician network, home health and long-term care services, and other health-related entities.
Partners HealthCare is one of the nation's leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization.
FOUNDING MEMBERS
MEMBERS
- Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals
- Brigham and Women's Physician Organization
- Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
- McLean Hospital
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital
- North Shore Medical Center
- MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. (PCHI)
- Partners Continuing Care
JOINT VENTURES
- Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology
- Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare
- Harvard Clinical Research Institute
- Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine
A HISTORY OF EXCELLENCE
No Boundaries.
At Partners, we believe the best medicine overcomes traditional boundaries, whether they are professional, institutional or geographic. As the largest academic health system in the U.S., we have spent the past decade developing a powerful synergy through system-wide improvements to patient care and safety, technical and scientific excellence, lifesaving research and physicial education.
Here's how others view our success:
The New York Times
In a front page story on hospital mergers across the U.S., The New
York Times described Partners HealthCare System as "The Model Marriage
of Academic Medicine" (March 4, 2001).
Consumers Digest "50 Exceptional U.S. Hospitals"
Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital,
and Newton-Wellesley Hospital ranked #1, #2, and #47 respectively on the
Consumers Digest "50 Exceptional U.S. Hospitals" report (April,
2005). Hospitals were ranked based on their implementation of 27 quality
and safety practices endorsed by the National Quality Forum.
U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals 2005 Honor Roll
Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital
rank #3 and #12 respectively on the U.S. News and World Report
Best Hospitals 2005 Honor Roll. Only 16 U.S. hosptials made the 'honor
roll'; the criterion for inclusion on the honor roll includes excellence
in at least six specialties.
The Leapfrog Group
The Leapfrog Group is a U.S.-based coalition of employers, health plans
and hospitals devoted to improving quality and patient safety. Leapfrog
focuses on four hospital quality and safety practices: computer physician
order entry; evidence-based hospital referral; intensive care unit (ICU)
staffing by physicians experienced in critical care medicine; and The
Leapfrog Safe Practices Score, based on the criteria endorsed by the National
Quality Forum. The Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham
and Women's Hospital currently outperform all other U.S. hospitals reporting
to the Leapfrog Group on issues relating to quality and safety.
Partners Milestones
1782 Harvard Medical School is founded
1811 Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and McLean Hospital are founded
1832 The Boston Lying-In Hospital, an antecedent of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), is founded
1846 First use of anesthesia in surgery
1883 First North American use of an antiseptic during childbirth to protect mothers and newborns from deadly infections
1888 McLean becomes the first U.S. psychiatric hospital to study the role of biological factors in mental illness
1896 First use of X-ray imaging for diagnosis in the U.S.
1925 First tumor clinic established for the study of cancer
1929 First use of the iron lung to save a polio victim
1947 First artificial kidney machine in the U.S. perfected
1954 First successful human organ transplant
1962 First successful surgical reattachment of a severed limb
1968 First demonstration of telemedicine
1970 Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital founded
1981 First articifical skin made from living cells
1994 Partners HealthCare System founded by BWH and MGH
1996 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute joins BWH and MGH to form Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare
1996 First use of intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
1999 The Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center opens for the treatment of cancer
1999 First keyhole surgery used to remove an aneurysm
2000 AIDS researchers make groundbreaking discovery in the treatment of early detected HIV
2002 Development of the C-reactive protein test, a reliable predictor of heart attack and stroke
2006 Surgeons remove more than 90% of a cancerous lung tumor by delivering laser carbon dioxide energy through a new, flexible optical fiber.
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