Brigham and Women's Hospital - Overview

Overview

Brigham and Women's is a partner in the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, which has 13 separate cancer treatment centers. Generally, outpatient care for cancer and related diseases takes place at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and inpatient care takes place at BWH, with the two facilities connected by bridges. BWH also treats patients at Faulkner Hospital, a community teaching hospital located in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, and at Brigham and Women's/Mass General Health Care Center at Foxborough, in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

The hospital is a Level I Burn and Trauma Center. A rooftop helipad on the BWH campus accommodates helicopter patients. BWH is part of the consortium of hospitals which operates Boston MedFlight.

Construction was recently completed on the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center, which is connected to Brigham and Women's main building with a bridge.

Over the last ten years, BWH has been one of the top two largest non-university recipients of research funding from the National Institutes of Health. In 2010, the hospital received a total of $555 million in research funding from all sources. The BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI), which oversees the hospital's research, has a staff of more than 3,700 researchers, including over 900 principal investigators.

As of 2008, U.S. News & World Report rankings place BWH overall as the 8th-best hospital in the United States. 2008 marks the 17th consecutive year that BWH has been on U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll (ranked in the top ten overall), making it the only hospital to be on the Honor Roll every year. For the following specialties BWH received rankings in the top 10 by the U.S. News and World Report:

• Kidney Disease (1);
• Gynecology (1);
• Heart (5);
• Rheumatology (7);
• Endocrinology (8);

On October 3, 2011 Becker's Hospital Review listed BWH under 70 Hospitals With Great Cardiology Programs.