Partners' physician network, called Partners Community HealthCare, Inc., currently includes more than 900 primary care physicians, as well as community hospitals, home health agencies, McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Belmont, Mass., and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. Partners also is involved in a collaborative program for adult oncology with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. This year the MGH was named one of the country's best hospitals by U.S. News and World Report for the sixth consecutive year, ranking third nationwide. Surgery performed without pain for the first time. 1886 MGH physician is the first to recognize the true nature of appendicitis.
Information paves the way for proper diagnosis and treatment.
The first X ray image in the United States is made by an MGH physician just 30 days after the technique is discovered in Europe. The first tumor clinic founded for the study of cancer. In treating patients from the Coconut Grove fire, MGH physicians demonstrate efficacy of new approach to burn treatment and value of new blood bank and emergency plan. 1945 Researcher at the Vincent Memorial Hospital, the gynecology service of the MGH, perfects use of Pap smear to detect cervical cancer. 1960 Proton beam therapy is first used to treat tumors of the eye, neck and brain.