About Us
What Should I Know About St. Elizabeth's Medical Center?
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine, provides patients and families access to some of Boston’s most respected physicians and advanced treatments offering specialized care, including:
- Advanced Center for Cardiac Surgery
- da Vinci® Robotic surgery program; Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery
- Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Award-winning bariatric surgery program
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
- State-of-the-art emergency care with short wait times
Our medical staff, made up of some of the highest rated physicians in Boston, treats patients in our community practices in neighborhoods, including Allston, Boston, Brighton, Brookline, Newton, Watertown and Weston.
Patients receive tertiary care at our 267-bed main campus in the heart of Boston’s Brighton neighborhood. St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center was founded in 1868 by five laywomen members of the third order of St. Francis to care for women from Boston’s South End. Today, St. Elizabeth’s is consistently recognized for providing the highest quality care to our community. St. Elizabeth’s has consistently been honored with several prestigious recognition, including:
- One of Healthgrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery™ for 3 Years in a Row (2018-2020)
- One of Healthgrades America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care™ for 7 Years in a Row (2013-2019)
- One of Healthgrades America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention™ for 3 Years in a Row (2017-2019)
- Named by U.S. News & World Report as a High Performing Hospital in treating heart failure and performing heart bypass in its annual U.S. News’ 2018-2019 High Performing Hospital listing
- Named a TransCarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) Center of Excellence by Silk Road, Medical, Inc., 2019
- Earned the 2017 and 2019 American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Heart Failure Gold Plus Performance Achievement and Target Heart Failure: Honor Roll recognition
- Earned the 2019 American Health Association and American Stroke Association Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement and Target Stroke: Honor Roll Elite Plus recognition
- Recognized by the American College of Radiology as a designated ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center
- Earned Center of Excellence accreditation through the American College of Surgeons Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®) for the Steward Center for Weight Control at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
- Earned Blue Distinction® Center+ designation for the Steward Center for Weight Control at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center through the Blue Distinction® Centers for Specialty Care Program
- The St. Elizabeth’s Dialysis Program earned a 5-Star Rating from the Medicare Dialysis Facility Compare Star Program
- Earned Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (ICA) accreditations in the following areas CT, Echocardiography, Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, PET, Vascular Testing and Vein Center
- Earned two Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) Paul Coverdell National Stroke Program awards for stroke care:
- Defect-Free Care Award
- Dysphagia Screening Greater Than or Equal to 90% Award
- Immunization Action Coalition’s (IAC's) Hepatitis B Birth Dose Honor Roll
- Physicians consistently ranked in U.S. News & World Report Best Doctors, Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors
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