Nurturing the relationships among our affiliates is just the beginning. Beyond this, we are focused on establishing and strengthening bonds with referring physicians, managed care organizations, and our health centers. But, in order to lead health care into the future, we put one group above all others - the people who come to us for care. By keeping the patient at the center of all we do, we preserve the historic missions of the founding academic medical centers, The Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. As forerunners in research, education and patient care, these distinguished partners will lead their affiliates in developing an integrated, effective health care delivery system.
Partners is composed of an impressive array of renowned organizations.
MGH and BWH rank among the top hospitals in U.S. News and World Report s Honor Role of American Hospitals. Together, they will lead an integrated heath care delivery system that offers patients throughout the region a continuum of coordinated high quality care. Together with the Harvard Medical School, the MGH and BWH established Boston as a center for the education of doctors and the pursuit of clinical research. Brigham and Women s Hospital has been responsible for many advances in medicine, including the first use of anesthesia in an American maternity hospital, the first polio victim to be saved by the iron lung, the first fertilization of a human ovum in a test tube, the world s first successful human organ transplant and the identification of the gene responsible for an early and severe form of hypertension. The Massachusetts General Hospital is the first and largest teaching hospital affiliated with the Harvard Medical School.