Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is a community teaching medical center located in Newton, Massachusetts on Washington Street. It is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School . Founded in 1881, part of its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District .
31-476: NWH may refer to these medical facilities: Newton-Wellesley Hospital , Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. Northern Westchester Hospital , Mount Kisco, New York, U.S. North Wales Hospital , Denbigh, Wales (closed 1995) See also [ edit ] No Way Home (disambiguation) Spider-Man: No Way Home , a 2021 Marvel superhero film NWHL (disambiguation) NWHS (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
62-693: A health insurance plan, and a robust network of specialty practices, urgent care facilities, and outpatient clinics /surgical centers. It is the largest private employer in Massachusetts . In 2023, the system reported that from 2017–2021 its overall economic impact was $ 53.4 billion – more than the annual state budget. Mass General Brigham was founded by the academic medical centers (AMCs) which give it its name: Massachusetts General Hospital (colloquially referred to as "Mass General") and Brigham and Women's Hospital ("the Brigham"). Both hospitals were founded in
93-487: A 2011 Blue Distinction Designation for demonstrating reliability in delivering spine surgery with better overall outcomes for patients. Newton-Wellesley Hospital's medical oncology partner, New England Hematology/Oncology Associates (NEHOA), became one of the first oncology practices in the nation to be recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®) Certification Program, an affiliate of
124-604: A 9 or 10: 81%. Percent of patients nationally who rate hospitals on average a 9 or 10: 69%. NWH has received the Boston Globe ' s Top Places to Work Award in 2010 and 2011. U.S. News Media & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings recognized Newton- Wellesley as high performing in Urology. The hospital was designated as an Aetna Institutes™ of Quality for Bariatric Surgery in 2011. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts recognized Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) with
155-485: A Blue Distinction® Designation for demonstrating reliability in delivering knee/hip replacement with better overall outcomes for patients. Boston magazine featured Newton-Wellesley Hospital in their 2010 annual "Top Doctors" issue as a top community hospital outside of Boston. The article also features 24 Newton-Wellesley Hospital physicians as top doctors in the state. Clinical Centers at Newton-Wellesley include: Mass General Brigham Mass General Brigham (MGB)
186-511: A core part of its mission is delivering the same high-quality care to all patients regardless of the severity of their condition. Partners also provided employees with pay and benefits for those unable to work due to COVID-related illness, eight weeks of pay for those temporarily without work, and hotel rooms for employees. Mass General Brigham reported a loss of operations of $ 432 million (−2.6% operating margin) in fiscal year 2022 due to historic cost inflation, significant workforce shortages, and
217-451: A deal that raised insurance costs all across Massachusetts. They agreed that Van Faasen would substantially increase insurance payments to Mass General Brigham doctors and hospitals, largely correcting the underpayments of the previous 10 years. However, Partners issued a statement saying that Thier pledged only that he would treat all insurers equally. According to Boston Globe investigative journalists, Blue Cross and other insurers increased
248-626: Is a not-for-profit , integrated health care system that engages in medical research , teaching, and patient care. It is the largest hospital-based research enterprise in the United States, with annual funding of more than $ 2 billion. The system's annual revenue was nearly $ 18 billion in 2022. It is also an educational institution, founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital . The system provides clinical care through two academic hospitals, three specialty hospitals, seven community hospitals , home care services,
279-534: Is a lists of medical firsts and milestones accomplished by Mass General Brigham institutions: Mass General Brigham is the largest hospital system-based research enterprise in America, with an annual research budget exceeding $ 2 billion. It is the top system for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in the world, receiving $ 1.04 billion from NIH in 2022. The system's funding for research has grown from $ 1.5 billion in 2012 to $ 2.3 billion in 2023, with nearly 2/3 of
310-536: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Newton-Wellesley Hospital It is a member of Mass General Brigham , a network founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital . The hospital offers a range of medical, surgical, and specialty care, including maternity services, a 24-hour emergency department, and orthopedic, critical care, and oncology inpatient units. Newton-Wellesley Hospital, originally called Newton Cottage Hospital ,
341-808: Is located at 2014 Washington Street, Newton, Massachusetts, near the intersection of Routes 16 & 128 (I-95), one mile south of the Mass. Pike (I-90). The closest MBTA stop is Woodland , two blocks from the hospital on the D (Riverside) Branch of the MBTA Green Line. An additional urgent care treatment facility is located offsite at the Waltham Urgent Care Center at 9 Hope Avenue in Waltham, MA. Laboratory Services also has offsite locations in Natick, Walpole, Waltham and Weston. The HealthGrades website contains
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#1732902702382372-657: The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The hospital received the 2011 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award. Fifty-four physicians affiliated with Newton-Wellesley appeared on the Best Doctors in America® list for 2011-12. The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) recognized Newton-Wellesley Hospital as one of 26 ACS NSQIP participating hospitals in
403-579: The Brigham for disclosing allegations of fraudulent research at the lab and for taking steps to prevent future recurrences of such conduct. In May 2017, Partners announced they would be cutting more than $ 600 million in expenses over the next three years in an effort to control higher costs and to become more efficient. The cost-cutting initiative was called Partners 2.0, and the plan looked to reduce costs in research, care delivery, revenue collection, and supply chain. The plan began on October 1, 2017 and eliminated jobs. The company lost $ 108 million in 2016, but
434-475: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Partners HealthCare, who reported operating income of $ 484 million (3.5% operating margin) in fiscal year 2019, refused hazard pay to its healthcare workers despite lack of proper PPE. However, they did not layoff or furlough any employees during the pandemic, while cutting executive salaries. The system explained it does not calibrate pay and benefits based upon patients' conditions, because
465-646: The Spine Center (founded by Andrew C. Hecht in 2001), the Waltham Urgent Care Center (2003), and Maxwell Blum Emergency Pavilion (2007) and the Vernon Cancer Center (construction began 2008 ). There are 273 available beds and more than 21,000 discharges every year at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. On average, there are 56,000 visits in the emergency room yearly and more than 3,700 babies born. 14,000 surgical cases are seen each year. The hospital employs approximately 2,500 people. The main campus of Newton-Wellesley
496-427: The United States that have achieved exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care. Newton-Wellesley Hospital received The American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s 2010 Get With The Guidelines® Triple Gold Performance Achievement Award for achievement in coronary artery disease, stroke and/or heart failure treatment. In 2010, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts recognized Newton-Wellesley Hospital with
527-499: The clinical quality data for Newton-Wellesley Hospital, as of 2018. For this rating section clinical quality rating data and patient safety ratings are presented. For inpatient conditions and procedures, there are three possible ratings: worse than expected, as expected, better than expected. For this hospital the data for this category is: For patient safety ratings the same three possible ratings are used. For this hospital they are: Percent of patients who would rate this hospital as
558-693: The early 1800s, are based in Boston , and serve as major teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School . In 1994, fueled by economic and political pressure to cut costs on patient care and health care education, the two hospitals merged to create a new parent corporation : Partners Healthcare. The two entities continued to operate largely independently, and remained competitors in multiple areas, until 2019. In 2015, Partners launched an electronic health record (EHR) system, allowing doctors, nurses, and other caregivers easier access patients' medical history . The effort computerized millions of health records across
589-593: The establishment of an official hospital laboratory for bloodwork and urinalyses; the blood bank was first added in 1939. In 1955, the first pacemaker operation at the hospital was performed, followed by the first cardiac catheterization in 1993. The Wikstrom Surgical Center opened in 1993, providing 16 operating rooms, pre-operative and post-anesthesia areas, and a permanent MRI suite. In 1999, Newton-Wellesley Hospital joined Partners HealthCare, now Mass General Brigham ; it affiliated with MassGeneral Hospital for Children in 2001. A number of new centers were created, including
620-642: The funds coming from outside of Massachusetts. Research revenues in 2022 were $ 2.2 billion. In 2023, the system said it had over 2,700 ongoing clinical trials , focused on accelerating new treatments and therapies. Among the system's recent innovations: Visudyne for macular degeneration , Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis , Eloctate and Alprolix for hemophilia, Entyvio for crohn's disease , and total joint replacements such as Durasul , Longevity, E1, and Vicacit-E. In May 2000, CEO Dr. Samuel Thier and William C. Van Faasen, CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts—the state's biggest health insurer—agreed to
651-471: The local population. It consisted of a complex of buildings, radiating from a central administrative building. Patients were cared for in windowed ward rooms, one story high. A School of Nursing was established at the hospital in 1888. The first baby was born there in 1890 (by 1965, 50,000 babies had been delivered, including the hospital's first in-vitro baby). Newton-Wellesley acquired its first X-ray machine in 1902, and an electrocardiograph in 1933. In 1910,
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#1732902702382682-473: The nation's best in their respective specialties. Its current President and CEO is Dr. Anne Klibanski. The system's current Board of Directors consists of the following members: Executive Committee of the Board Board Members Current members of Mass General Brigham include: There are at least 22 Nobel Prize winners affiliated with Mass General Brigham institutions. The following
713-448: The organization under the new name "Mass General Brigham". Mass General Brigham has 2.5 million patients annually, generating $ 18 billion in operating revenue and more than $ 2 billion in research funding. Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General are consistently ranked among the best hospitals in America , while Massachusetts Eye and Ear , McLean , and Spaulding are also among
744-478: The outpatient department was opened at the hospital. Most outpatient departments at the time consisted of a doctor and a nurse. But Newton-Wellesley offered a variety of services, each attended by a specialist. The department had an orthopedic service, one of only two in the Boston community. A complex of eleven modestly-scaled buildings (compared to modern hospital facilities), most constructed between 1894 and 1908, were
775-587: The past four years in other cases. In 2015, the system abandoned their plans to invest $ 200 million into the hospital. In April 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts announced that Partners HealthCare System and one of its hospitals, Brigham and Women's Hospital, agreed to pay a $ 10 million fine to resolve allegations that a stem cell research lab fraudulently obtained federal grant funding. Federal prosecutors commended
806-534: The rate they paid Mass General Brigham by 75 percent between 2000 and 2008, though CEO James J. Mongan argued insurance rates in Massachusetts have gone up at roughly the same rate as the national average. In 2013, Mass General Brigham's plan to take over 378-bed South Shore Hospital in Weymouth was reviewed due to fears that the expansion plan is anticompetitive, a conduct Mass General Brigham had been accused of over
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868-479: The subject of the 1990 "Newton Cottage Hospital" listing on the National Register of Historic Places . Several of the listed buildings have since been demolished. In response to the influx of patients resulting from the combination of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic , the hospital erected a number of tents and temporary buildings. Patient records began to be kept in 1920, followed in 1924 by
899-459: The system, creating one record for each Partners patient, allowing information to be more easily shared among caregivers. In 2016, the system moved to into their current headquarters, located in Somerville 's Assembly Row . The building allowed Mass General Brigham to merge 14 other offices. In 2019, 25 years after the founding of Partners, the health system made the decision to fully integrate
930-411: Was incorporated in 1881. The idea for the hospital began when a local reverend, George W. Shinn, encouraged the mayor of Newton, Royal M. Pulsifer, to provide health care services for sick members of the community. Nine acres were purchased for the building. The hospital opened its doors on June 5, 1886 and admitted its first patient a week later. As a cottage hospital , Newton-Wellesley was built to serve
961-470: Was profitable in 2017 despite industry turmoil. In February 2018, Partners announced that 100 coders would have their jobs outsourced to India in a cost saving move. This was all part of the non-profit hospital and physicians network's three-year plan to reduce $ 500 million to $ 800 million in overhead costs. CEO Dr. David Torchiana said the job cuts were a financial necessity, adding that most sectors outsource call centers and back-office functions. During