Brigham and Women's Hospital, Teaching hospital in Longwood Medical Area, Boston, Massachusetts.
Brigham and Women's Hospital is a teaching medical center in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts, with more than 700 beds. The campus spreads across several connected buildings that house clinics, operating rooms, and research facilities.
Three Boston hospitals merged in 1980 to create this center, continuing their medical traditions dating back to the 19th century. The institution has been among the leading research hospitals in the United States for decades.
The name honors three earlier institutions that joined to form this center. Visitors see students and researchers working alongside doctors, as teaching happens throughout the buildings every day.
The hospital sits in a medical district well served by public transit. Parking is available on campus, though many visitors prefer nearby subway stations.
In the 1950s, surgeons here performed the first successful kidney transplant between identical twins. That operation later earned the lead surgeon a Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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