Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Teaching hospital in Longwood, Boston, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a teaching hospital in the Longwood neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It consists of several buildings with specialized departments, outpatient clinics, emergency units and research laboratories in the city's medical district.
The two predecessor institutions opened in 1896 and 1916 as separate facilities serving different communities in Boston. They joined together in 1996 to form a single medical center.
The name recalls the Jewish Beth Israel Hospital and the Protestant New England Deaconess, which brought their different traditions together. Today students and physicians from many countries work side by side in teaching clinics and research units.
Visitors reach the complex by public transport and find signs directing them to the different department entrances. The campus is accessible from several streets and has parking available for patients and companions.
The facility has housed the Harvard-Thorndike General Clinical Research Center since 1973, the oldest clinical research laboratory in the United States. The institution manages over 850 active research projects on different medical questions.
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