Massachusetts General Hospital

70 Blossom St
Boston MA 02114-2606
Phone: (617) 726-8823
Web Site: www.mgh.harvard.edu

Founded in 1811, the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England. The 868-bed world-renowned medical center offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery.

Each year the MGH admits approximately 42,000 inpatients and handles more than 1.2 million visits in its extensive outpatient programs at the main campus and at its four health centers, in the Back Bay, Charlestown, Chelsea and Revere. Its emergency services handle nearly 75,000 visits annually. Each year the surgical staff performs nearly 32,000 operations, and the MGH Vincent Obstetrics Service delivers more than 3,400 babies.

The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $300 million. It is the oldest and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and nearly all of the hospital's active staff physicians are on the Harvard Medical School faculty.

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