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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 the gre...
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 technology en...
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 accuracy...
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. Elizabeth’...
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 hospital...
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, Infants a...
BOSTON EMS’ RICK CHIARAVALLOTI WINS “EMS STEWARDS OF THE COMMUNITY” AWARD
June 6, 2018Rick Chiaravalloti of Brighton, MA, named one of Massachusetts’ exceptional EMS providers at Steward Health Care’s award ceremony BRIGHTON, MA – In celebration of National Emergency Medical Service (EMS) week, Steward Health Care hosted the 2nd annual “EMS Stewards of the Community” Award Ceremony on May 22 at the Tirrell Room in Quincy, MA. Boston-based Steward, which operates nine hospitals ac...
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Wound Care Service Earns Patient Quality and Satisfaction Award
April 2, 2018Center of Excellence Award demonstrates 2 consecutive years of exceptional outcomes
Steward Center for Weight Control Recognized for Efficiently Delivering Quality Specialty Care
February 5, 2018Multi-center Program Receives Blue Distinction+ for Bariatrics BRIGHTON, MA – February 5, 2018 – As part of the Blue Distinction® Centers for Specialty Care Program, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) has recognized St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, a teaching affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine, with a Blue Distinction® Center+ designation for its Center for Weigh...
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Offering New Procedure to Relieve Arrhythmia Symptoms After 40 Years of Pioneering Work to Bring to the Mainstream
July 12, 2017“His Bundle Pacing” Procedure First Described by the Late Dr. Bernard Kosowsky to alleviate symptoms of arrhythmia St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center recently became the first Massachusetts-based Steward Health Care system hospital to offer “His Bundle Pacing”, a procedure that relieves arrhythmia symptoms in patients with various rhythm disturbances associated with the slow pulse and heart failure...
Renowned Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon Richard P. Cambria, MD, Joins Steward Health Care
June 15, 2017BOSTON, MA – Steward Health Care and Steward Medical Group (SMG) are pleased to announce that internationally renowned vascular surgeon Richard P. Cambria, MD, has joined Steward Health Care and SMG as System Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. Dr. Cambria, who joined MGH in 1986, served as the Chief of the Division of Vascular/Endovascular Surgery there since 2002 and is a Professor of Su...
Steward Center for Weight Control at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Earns National Accreditation from the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program
May 22, 2017Bariatric surgery program meets all criteria as a Comprehensive Center according to national quality standards established to deliver safe, high quality bariatric patient care May 22, 2017 – BRIGTON, MA – For the last 12 years, the Steward Center for Weight Control at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center has earned Center of Excellence accreditation through the American College of Surgeons and most rec...
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Center for Wound Care Recognized with National Award for Clinical Excellence
March 27, 2017St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center’s Center for Wound Care earned a national award for clinical excellence. The Center of Distinction award, which was given to St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center by Healogics, St. Elizabeth’s Center for Wound Care management company, highlights outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a wound healing rate of at least 91 percent in less than 31 median days.
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Shares Tips on How to Live a Heart Healthy Life for American Heart Month
February 15, 2017Heart health is one of the most important factors that can affect wound healing. Chronic wounds affect approximately 6.7 million people in the United States, and these wounds cost more than $50 billion annually. If left untreated, chronic wounds can lead to a diminished quality of life and possible amputation of the affected limb.