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Steward Health Care Acquires Naming Rights to Wellesley Sports Center, Joins as Strength, Conditioning and Physical Therapy Partner
July 10, 2019Boston Sports Institute to Open Summer 2019
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Named America’s 50 Best for Cardiac Surgery and America’s 100 Best for Cardiac Care and Coronary Intervention
June 13, 2019New report identifies St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center among the top hospitals nationally for excellence in Cardiac Care.
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Receives Accreditation from American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
June 6, 2019The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons, has granted Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation to the cancer program at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
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Michaila Kaufman, President of Boston College EMS, honored with “EMS Stewards of the Community” Awards
May 23, 2019Recognizing those who deliver exceptional care and compassion to patients every day!
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Steward Healthy Beginnings Program Now Offers Free Doula Care for Steward Health Choice Members
May 15, 2019Steward Healthy Beginnings Program Now Offers Free Doula Care for Steward Health Choice Members
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Offers Breakthrough Treatment for Patients with a Leaky Heart Valve Who Are Too High-Risk for Surgery
April 8, 2019Cardiac Team Successfully Performs the Hospital’s First MitraClip® Minimally Invasive Procedure for Severe Mitral Regurgitation to Correct Serious Heart Valve Condition BRIGHTON, MA - The multidisciplinary valve team at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center recently began to offer MitraClip® therapy—a minimally invasive treatment option for people with a severe leak in the mitral valve who are too high-r...
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Steward Online Booking Makes Access to Primary Care Doctors Easier
March 28, 2019Convenient appointment scheduling is available 24/7 BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS - Doctors’ Day is on Saturday, March 30 and many around the nation will pause to honor the contributions physicians make. While the U.S. is facing a shortage of primary care doctors, Steward Medical Group has introduced online appointment booking to help make the access to primary care as easy as possible for patients. Ste...
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Charles S. Day, MD, MBA, of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Provides In-Depth Visual Review of Common Hand and Wrist Problems in New England Journal of Medicine Video
March 13, 2019Video highlights hand and wrist physical exam techniques to help practitioners identify frequently misdiagnosed issues and injuries, and also includes treatment recommendations BRIGHTON, MA – Pediatric, internal medicine, family medicine, and emergency medicine practitioners often do not have the advantage of advanced training on hand and wrist diagnoses. As a result, evaluating hand and wri...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Joins Innovative Effort to Solve America’s Drug Shortage Crisis
January 14, 2019Partnership will increase availability of generic medicines for patients in Greater Boston area and beyond St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center joins Civica Rx; Mission-driven initiative aims to ensure essential generic medicines are affordable and available to all BOSTON, MA – St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, a Steward family hospital, will be a part of Civica Rx, a new, innovative effort to ensure ess...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Steward Medical Group Welcome Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeon Claudius Conrad, MD, PhD, FACS
December 26, 2018World renowned surgical oncologist brings highly specialized care to the St. Elizabeth’s and Steward communities BRIGHTON, MA – St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and Steward Medical Group welcome Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgeon Dr. Claudius Conrad, MD, PhD, FACS to its medical staff as Chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology and Director of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery. Dr. Conrad brings ...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Receives Grant to Address Continuity of Care for Patients Battling Addiction
December 3, 2018BRIGHTON, MASS. – St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, in collaboration with Addiction Treatment Centers of New England (ATCNE), have received a $500,000 grant from the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services over two years to support the Transitional Addiction Treatment (TAT) Program which will ensure continuity of care for individuals receiving inpatient addiction treatment when they transition to outpati...
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U.S. News & World Report Names St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Among the Best in the Nation in Treating Heart Failure and Performing Heart Bypass
September 24, 2018BRIGHTON, MA - St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as among the best in the nation in treating Heart Failure and performing Heart Bypass in its annual U.S. News’ 2018-2019 High Performing Hospital listing. The High Performing ranking for Heart Failure and Heart Bypass represents the highest rating possible which is also significantly better than the n...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Implants “World’s Smallest Pacemaker” Into Patient’s Heart
August 27, 2018Comparable in size to a large vitamin, the Micra® TPS is a miniaturized heart device designed to provide the most advanced pacing technology for patients whose hearts beat too slowly BRIGHTON, MA – St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center recently implanted the world’s smallest pacemaker, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medical device about the size of a large vitamin and as lightweight as a p...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Earns Paul Coverdell National Stroke Program Awards for Exceptional Stroke Care
July 31, 2018Ongoing Commitment to Quality Improvement Ensures Stroke Patients Receive Better Care BRIGHTON, MA – St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center recently earned two awards from the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). St. Elizabeth’s received the Defect-free Care Award and the Dysphagia Screening greater than or equal to 90% Award from the organiz...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Implants 50th Successful Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device to Treat Atrial Fibrillation
July 25, 2018Permanent heart implant is the only FDA-approved device for the reduction of stroke risk in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation BRIGHTON, MA – Physicians at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center recently performed the institution’s 50th implant of the WATCHMAN™ Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Device on a patient with atrial fibrillation (AF). The hospital is one of only a few in th...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Introduces Robotic Arm Technology to Improve Accuracy in Joint Replacements
June 27, 2018Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Technology can lead to better outcomes in hip and knee replacement surgeries BRIGHTON, MA – St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center has introduced Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Technology to its Bone and Joint Center. This new technology uses GPS and 3-D modeling to improve the accuracy and longevity of joint replacements. Now operating in two units at the Center, Mako technolo...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Welcomes Orthopedic Surgeons Matthew Werger, MD, and Jonathan Cluett, MD
June 27, 2018Experienced joint replacement surgeons introduce Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Technology program BRIGHTON, MA – Board certified orthopedic surgeons Matthew Werger, MD and Jonathan Cluett, MD, have been named primary surgeons for St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Technology program. A new service offered by the Bone and Joint Center, Mako technology brings increased acc...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Dialysis Program Earns 5-Star Rating from the Medicare Dialysis Facility Compare Star Program
June 25, 2018BRIGHTON, MA - St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Dialysis Program has earned 5-stars rating as part of the Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) Star Program. The DFC Star Program is a rating system developed by Medicare that assigns 1 to 5 stars to dialysis facilities by comparing the health of the patients in their clinics to the patients in other dialysis facilities across the country. St. Eliza...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Earns 2018 Get With the Guidelines® – Gold Plus Performance Achievement and Target HF: Honor Roll Recognitions for Heart Failure
June 20, 20183rd Year in a Row St. Elizabeth’s Earns this Recognition BRIGHTON, MA - St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center has earned the American Heart Association’s 2018 Get With The Guidelines® Gold Plus Performance Achievement and Target HF: Honor Roll recognitions for Heart Failure. This is the 3rd year in a row St. Elizabeth’s has earned a Get with the Guidelines designation. The award recognizes the hos...
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St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Earns Certificate of Excellence from the Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts
June 19, 2018Recognition reflects work done to improve the care of substance exposed newborns and their families BRIGHTON, MA - St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center has earned a Certificate of Excellence from the Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts for work done to highlight the care for substance exposed newborns and their families at the annual Improving the Care of Mothers, Infa...