Additional Information About BWH
Brigham And Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Recognized internationally for its excellence in patient care, its outstanding reputation in biomedical research, and its commitment to educating and training physicians, research scientists and other health care professionals, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a 747-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School located in the heart of Boston's renowned Longwood Medical Area. Along with its modern inpatient facilities, BWH boasts extensive outpatient services and clinics, neighborhood primary care health centers, state-of-the art diagnostic and treatment technologies and research laboratories.
BWH is proud to be an employer partner in Northeastern�s Co-op Program. Brigham and Women�s Hospital has deep and rich roots in medicine that date back to 1832. BWH formed in 1980 with the unprecedented merger of three of Boston's oldest and most prestigious Harvard teaching hospitals: the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, and the Boston Hospital for Women. BWH's strength as an academic medical center continually evolves but stays true to its mission of the highest quality patient care and service, teaching the next generation of caregivers, and cutting-edge research and discovery. Throughout BWH, innovation is encouraged, and its history and traditions are cherished. BWH is a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, the largest integrated health care delivery network in New England. A top recipient of research grants from the National Institutes of Health � with an annual research budget of more than $400 million � BWH is internationally known for its clinical, translational, bench, and population-based research studies, including the landmark Nurses Health Study, Physicians Health Studies, and the Women's Health Initiative.
BWH continues to build on the legacy of its predecessors. It has been ranked on US News and World Report's Honor Roll of America's best hospitals for 11 consecutive years. BWH is also the only hospital in the nation to be named for eight consecutive years to Solucient's list of Top 100 Hospitals. BWH was also recently recognized by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) for being one of five top performing academic medical centers in the country in a special quality and safety benchmarking study.