East Newton Campus

Boston Medical Center

The hospital was chartered in 1855 as the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, but was renamed the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in 1921. In 1965, the name again changed to The University Hospital, and in 1994, the hospital became known as Boston University Medical Center Hospital, reflecting both institutions’ joint commitment to patient care, medical education and clinical research.

Today the East Newton Street Campus of Boston Medical Center is a 277-bed regional referral center and is a principal teaching hospital of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. On July 1, 1996 Boston University Medical Center Hospital merged with Boston City Hospital to form the Boston Medical Center.

The East Newton Campus of BMC provides a full spectrum of surgical services, including open heart surgery, a referral vascular surgical practice, a renal transplant program, a gastrointestinal service with extensive use of endoscopic and laparoscopic technology, a surgical oncology and endocrinology program, a well-organized surgical intensive care unit, the New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center, and well-established surgical specialty programs.

Ambulatory care programs of the Hospital include an emergency room, the Booth Ambulatory Surgical Unit, the Evans Medical Group clinics, the Gundersen Eye Center, numerous general and specialty surgical clinics, and the Psychiatry Outpatient Service. A new surgical building, new operating and recovery rooms and a surgical intensive care unit were opened in December, 1987. A new ambulatory surgery center opened in August, 1994.

Surgical residents and a chief surgical resident are responsible with the attending faculty for pre and postoperative care of all surgical patients. Third and fourth-year Boston University medical students also participate in the teaching and clinical activities of the Surgical Service, which include weekly academic seminars, chief’s rounds, morbidity and mortality   conferences, vascular rounds, multidisciplinary tumor board, interdisciplinary GI conferences, critical care conferences, and a weekly Surgical Grand Rounds.