Baystate Medical Center

759 Chestnut Street
Springfield, MA 01199
http://www.baystatehealth.com/

Baystate Medical Center, the western campus of Tufts University School of Medicine, is a 783-bed tertiary care referral center for western Massachusetts. Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, it serves a population of nearly one million people and is recognized as a leading academic medical center.

Baystate includes over 235 full time physicians within a faculty of 450. Baystate's graduate medical education program consists of 253 residents. The Medical Center conducts residency training programs in anesthesiology, transitional year, diagnostic radiology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, combined medicine pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, pathology, pediatrics, and surgery as well as fellowship programs in critical care, pain management, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, endocrinology, geriatric medicine, hematology oncology, infectious disease, blood banking/transfusion medicine, and cytopathology.

In addition to the 35,000 patients admitted to its inpatient units, the Medical Center provides care each year to 90,000 patients in its emergency department, 28,500 patients in its day stay program, and 120,000 patients in its clinics, some of which are located on the hospital campus and others in neighborhood health centers throughout the city.

Most inpatient services are provided on Baystate's north campus in its Centennial Building. Also on the north campus is the Wesson Women and Infants Building which accommodates over 6,000 deliveries a year. The north campus is also the site of the new Chestnut Surgery Center opened in June, 1998. The surgery center is one of the most technologically advanced outpatient surgical centers in the country and includes state of the art conference rooms and library facilities. Outpatient services are offered at the new 3300 Main Street ambulatory facility opened in the spring of 1998. The 3300 Main Street facility offers a wide range of outpatient primary and specialty care practices and programs, a half mile fitness trail surrounds the building and a Consumer Health Library provides easy access to medical literature and on-line computer services for health information.

As the largest acute care hospital in the western new england region, Baystate provides many regional services unavailable in the neighboring communities. Among the specialized programs are a perinatal center for high risk pregnancies and invitro fertilization, a neonatal intensive care unit, renal and pancreatic transplant programs, a renal lithotripsy transplant program, a Level One trauma center with heliport, a wound care center, emergency and child psychiatry inpatient programs, adult and pediatric critical care services, and a bone marrow transplant program.

Baystate operates two outreach clinics in Springfield, Brightwood Health Center and Neighborhood Health Center. These community health centers extend care to citizens who otherwise may have not had easy access to medical services.

Baystate regularly assesses the healthcare needs of its community and to address these needs, has established 16 primary care practice sites in the Western Massachusetts area. These physician practice sites are also known as Baystate Affiliated Practice Organizations (BAPO).

Baystate Medical Center physicians conduct both clinical and basic research. Of note is the Collaborative Biomedical Research Program. Baystate Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed this program to foster the integration of clinical and basic sciences at the two institutions. Through sharing of the clinical and scientific resources available, the program encompasses components for creating new scientific programs, strengthening existing ones, establishing new research training opportunities for graduate students and resident physicians, and offering a graduate-level course in molecular medicine. In recognition of this program the Culpeper Foundation has provided support for the collaborative's Biomedical Scholars program, which enables resident physicians to receive training and pursue research in molecular and cell biology at the University towards completion of a Ph.D.