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.

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FOUNDING MEMBERS

• Brigham and Women's Hospital


• Massachusetts General Hospital

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
• Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics

Partners and its member hospitals are frequently recognized for excellence by independent sources. In 2003, The New York Times called Partners "the model marriage in academic medicine." Among groups that use objective ratings:

• U.S. News and World Report consistently includes the MGH and BWH in its annual "honor roll" and gives Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Dana-Farber high marks in their specialties;
• Consumer Reports magazine recently ranked MGH and BWH first and second in its "50 Exceptional U.S. Hospitals Report" (April, 2005). Hospitals were ranked on their implementation of 27 quality and safety practices endorsed by the National Quality Forum;
• The Leapfrog Group¹ rates MGH and BWH as outperforming all other U.S. hospitals on key measures of quality and patient safety.

¹The Leapfrog Group is a national coalition of employers, health plans and hospitals devoted to improving quality and patient safety. Leapfrog focuses on four 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 NQF-endorsed Safe Practices.