Massachusetts General Hospital
| Massachusetts General Hospital | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
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| location | 55 Fruit Street, Boston , Massachusetts | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 21 '46.1 " N , 71 ° 4' 7.1" W | ||
| Built | 1811 | ||
| architect | Charles Bulfinch | ||
| Architectural style | Neoclassicism | ||
| NRHP number | 70000682 | ||
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| The NRHP added | December 30, 1970 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | December 30, 1970 | ||
The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), based in Boston in the US state of Massachusetts is the oldest and largest teaching hospital of the Medical School of Harvard University . Established in 1811, the facility is one of the leading hospitals in the United States in terms of diagnostic capabilities , available treatments , nursing and research .
history
Massachusetts General Hospital was founded in 1811, making it the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England . The original structure was built in 1818. Its architect Charles Bulfinch was called to Washington while construction was still ongoing, where he took over the office of Architect of the Capitol . Horace Wells demonstrated a (unsuccessful) application of laughing gas for painless tooth extraction . On October 16, 1846, an operation under anesthesia with the help of diethyl ether took place in the so-called ether cathedral for the first time in medical history .
In terms of organization, the Massachusetts General Hospital has been supported since 1994 by the non-profit organization Partners HealthCare , which, in addition to the MGH, is also responsible for a number of other hospitals in Massachusetts, most of which are also affiliated with Harvard University.
Structure and equipment
Massachusetts General Hospital has 902 beds at its main location and four field offices in Boston and the surrounding area (as of 2006). The medical offer of the MGH includes almost all medical disciplines. As a trauma center, the emergency room is equipped to the highest possible standard (Level 1) of the American College of Surgeons . With around 19,000 employees, including around 3,600 doctors , dentists , psychologists and other employees in the medical specialist staff and around 2,900 in the nursing sector, the MGH is the largest non-state employer in Boston.
Services
Massachusetts General Hospital admits over 46,000 inpatients each year, including around 35,000 surgeries and over 3,000 births . The number of outpatients treated is around one million per year. In addition, around 70,000 emergency patients are treated annually , including around 2,000 trauma cases and around 2,000 emergency operations.
In various studies and comparative tests, the MGH regularly occupies top positions, especially in the fields of psychiatry , endocrinology , orthopedics , respiratory diseases , neurology and neurosurgery , kidney and digestive disorders , cardiology , rheumatology , oncology , urology , gynecology and ear, nose and throat medicine . Massachusetts General Hospital has been one of the top five hospitals in the United States for several years in the annual hospital ranking by the weekly US News & World Report .
Since 2003, Massachusetts General Hospital has held the title of Magnet Hospital, the highest recognition given by the American Nurses Association for excellence in nursing. The MGH also operates the most extensive research program of any hospital in the United States, with a research budget of around US $ 500 million.
literature
- Joseph E. Garland: Every Man Our Neighbor: A Brief History of the Massachusetts General Hospital 1811–1961. Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1961
- Claude E. Welch: A Twentieth-Century Surgeon: My Life in the Massachusetts General Hospital. Science History Publications, Boston 1992, ISBN 0-88135-181-4
Web links
- Massachusetts General Hospital Official Website
- The rise of mass. General . History and architecture of the hospital in The Boston Globe .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 11, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Overview of Mass General Hospital Boston Massachusetts ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2008)
- ↑ a b c d History of Mass General: Narrative Mass General Hospital History ( Memento of the original dated November 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2008)
- ↑ Michael Heck, Michael Fresenius: Repetitorium Anaesthesiologie. Preparation for the anesthesiological specialist examination and the European diploma in anesthesiology. 3rd, completely revised edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 2001, ISBN 3-540-67331-8 , p. 803.
- ↑ a b c Facts and figures at MGH ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2008)
- ↑ Mass General Hospital Directory - Hospital Departments and Programs ( Memento of the original of May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2008)
- ^ A b Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care (TESSCC): Massachusetts General Hospital (accessed May 2, 2008)
