Tufts Medical Center
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Tufts Medical Center (until 2008 Tufts-New England Medical Center), a 15-building campus located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a downtown Boston hospital midway between Chinatown and the Boston Theater District.
Tufts Medical Center | |
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Tufts Medicine | |
Geography | |
Location | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Coordinates | 42.34951°N 71.06331°W / 42.34951; -71.06331 |
Organization | |
Care system | Private |
Funding | Non-profit hospital |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | Tufts University School of Medicine |
Services | |
Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
Beds | 415 |
Helipad | Yes |
History | |
Opened | 1796 (as Boston Dispensary) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Massachusetts |
The hospital is a community-based full service medical center. It is also the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine and the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where all full-time Tufts physicians hold faculty appointments. Tufts Medical Center is subdivided into a full-service adult hospital and the Tufts Children's Hospital, which closed in 2022[1] (formerly the Boston Floating Hospital for Children).
It is an integrated part of the TuftsMedicine Health System of which in addition to the Tufts Medical Center includes the hospitals Lowell General Hospital,Lawrence Memorial Hospital (Medford, MA) and MelroseWakefield Hospital, home health services, and physician networks.[2] [3][4]
It is also a major center for bio-medical research. Tufts Medical Center's Interim President is Phil Okala.[5][6][7] Tufts Medical Center is located within Boston, but also has satellite locations in the suburbs of Quincy, Chelmsford, Framingham, among others.