Newton-Wellesley Hospital

Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton-Wellesley Hospital Logo.jpg
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Geography
Location 2014 Washington St., Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates 42°19′58.26″N 71°14′46.33″W / 42.33285°N 71.2462028°W / 42.33285; -71.2462028Coordinates: 42°19′58.26″N 71°14′46.33″W / 42.33285°N 71.2462028°W / 42.33285; -71.2462028
Organization
Hospital type Nonprofit, Community Teaching
Affiliated university Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Services
Emergency department Level II trauma center
Beds 289[1]
History
Founded 1881 [2]
Links
Website http://www.nwh.org/
Lists Hospitals in Massachusetts
Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District
One of the hospital's historic buildings
Location: 2014 Washington St., Newton, Massachusetts
Built: 1894
Architect: Hartwell & Richardson; Et al.
Architectural style: Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival
Governing body: Private
MPS: Newton MRA
NRHP Reference#:

90000108

[3]
Added to NRHP: February 21, 1990

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, its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District.

It is a member of Partners HealthCare, 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.[4]

Contents

History

Newton-Wellesley Hospital, originally called Newton Cottage Hospital, 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 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.[5]

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, 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.[5]

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 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 joins Partners HealthCare; it affiliated with MassGeneral Hospital for Children in 2001. A number of new centers were created, including 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[6]).

Facilities and current operations

There are 289 available beds and more than 17,000 discharges every year at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. On average, there are 56,000 visits in the emergency room yearly and more than 3,200 babies born. 14,000 surgical cases are seen each year.[1] The hospital employs approximately 2,500 people.

The main campus of Newton-Wellesley 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.[7]

An additional urgent care treatment facility is located offsite at the Waltham Urgent Care Center at 9 Hope Avenue in Waltham, MA.[8] Laboratory Services also has offsite locations in Natick, Walpole, Waltham and Weston.[9]

Ratings

NWH has received the Boston Business Journal's Best Places to Work Award in 2007 and 2008.[citation needed] It consistently ranks as a Top 100 Hospital by Solucient, honored five times for this achievement. In 2008 it received the American Heart Association's 2008 Get With The Guidelines Silver Performance Achievement Award for coronary artery disease and the 2008 Gold Performance Achievement Award for stroke and 2008 Silver Performance Achievement Award for heart failure. Sixty-three physicians affiliated with the Hospital were named to the Best Doctors in America list for 2007-08 created by Best Doctors, Inc. and 11 Hospital physicians were named to Boston Magazine's 2008 Top Doctor's List. Its Center for Weight Loss Surgery received Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's 2008 Blue Distinction Center for Bariatric Surgery and the Community Newspaper Company's honored it as the #1 Gold Hospital - Regional favorite in the 2008 Readers Choice Awards.[10]

Clinical Centers

Clinical Centers at Newton-Wellesley include:

Notable Births

The early years

  • The cost to start Newton Cottage Hospital: $3,600 for land; $7,209 to construct the Hospital.
  • Only 26 patients were cared for in 1886 - the first year the Hospital was opened.
  • Chickens and cows grazed at the Hospital, providing fresh dairy for patients and staff. Extensive gardens were also on site.
  • The first bequest Newton-Wellesley received was in 1886 for $250 from the estate of Eliza Kendall.
  • In 1961, the Hospital begins use of electronic paging systems - thanks to the donations raised from a Valentine's Day Ball.[12]

Nursing Early Years

  • Nursing candidates at Newton Cottage Hospital in 1888 had to be between 23- and 35-years-old.
  • They were not permitted to talk with any males within the Hospital gates.
  • Their dress requirements included seersucker gingham with a linen collar and cuffs, a white cap and white apron.
  • The School of Nursing closed in 1986 after graduating nearly 3,500 nurses in its 100 years.[5]

Then and Now

  • Patients stayed an average of four weeks during the first years at Newton Cottage Hospital. Today, the average patient stay at Newton-Wellesley is four days.
  • There were three births at the Hospital in 1890. Today, there are more than 3,000 births every year at the Hospital.
  • The Hospital was one of approximately 500 hospitals in the nation when it opened. There are 7,500-plus hospitals nationwide today.[13]

Going Green

  • Newton-Wellesley custodians no longer use old string mops - they have switched to microfiber models. This saves 200,000 gallons of water each year. The hospital is also using high-pressure steam to create some of its own electricity and is now using less toxic cleaning supplies.[14]

By the Numbers

  • Newton-Wellesley was the first community hospital in Massachusetts to offer PET/CT scans.
  • There are more than 1000 physicians affiliated with Newton-Wellesley Hospital.
  • The Hospital's Laboratory Services and Pathology Department perform more than 1.3 million lab tests every year.[15]
  • In 2008 there were 76,309 X-rays, 39,330 Ultrasounds, 45,408 Mammograms and 13,998 Endoscopy Procedures [1]
  • In 2005, the Hospital's hundred-year-old Ellison Building, weighing 890 tons, was moved on 28 eight-wheeled dollies to a new location 220 feet away.[16]
  • In September of 2010 the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Charitable Foundation hosted their first annual HopeWalks, the walk raised money for the Vernon Cancer Center. HopeWalks raised over $280,000 with 1,400 walkers, 108 teams, and 80+ volunteers. [17]

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Newton, Massachusetts — City of Newton, Massachusetts   City   City Hall …   Wikipedia

  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts — Location of Newton in Massachusetts Map of all coordinates from Google …   Wikipedia

  • List of people from Newton, Massachusetts — Newton, Massachusetts has been the home of many notable people. Academics Contents 1 Academics 2 Actors and actresses 3 …   Wikipedia

  • People from Newton, Massachusetts — Newton, Massachusetts has been the home of many notable people. Academics *David Berson, neurobiologist, professor at Brown University *J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist and archaeologist *Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel and former… …   Wikipedia

  • NWH — Newton Wellesley Hospital (Medical » Hospitals) * NorthWest Hospital (Medical » Hospitals) * National Wireless Holdings (Business » Firms) * National Wireless Holdings (Computing » Telecom) * Northwest Heights Elementary School (Community »… …   Abbreviations dictionary

  • List of hospitals in Massachusetts — (U.S. state), sorted by location.Note that unless noted Hospital means it is a full service hospital complete with ER = Amesbury = *Lahey Clinic Amesbury (formerly Amesbury Hospital) = Attleboro = *Sturdy Memorial Hospital *Arbour Fuller Hospital …   Wikipedia

  • Green Line "D" Branch — Riverside Branch MBTA Green Line D Type 7 train leaving the Fenway station for Riverside. Overview Type Light rail …   Wikipedia

  • Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps — Infobox Ambulance Company name = Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps motto = Saving Lives, Breaking Hearts established = 1983 headquarters = Waltham, Massachusetts, United States jurisdiction = Brandeis University campus staff type = Full time… …   Wikipedia

  • Joseph Tawil — infobox bishopbiog name = Archbishop Joseph Tawil Melkite Greek Catholic See = Eparchate of Newton, Massachusetts Title = Archbishop of Newton Period = March 15, 1970 mdash;December 12, 1989 consecration = January 1, 1960| Predecessor = Bishop… …   Wikipedia

  • Partners HealthCare — is a non profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women s Hospital founded the organization in 1994. Partners is the largest healthcare provider …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”