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Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

736 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02135-2997
www.semc.org/

Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is a tertiary academic medical center located in the Brighton section of Boston. The Medical Center provides a broad spectrum of medical services, as well as comprehensive teaching and research programs.

A major teaching affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center has 400 beds and serves the residents of Boston and its surrounding suburban communities. The Medical Center admits more than 17,000 inpatients each year and provides approximately 250,000 ambulatory visits, including more that 30,000 emergency room visits.

Caritas St. Elizabeth's is part of Caritas Christi Health Care, a comprehensive, integrated health care delivery network providing community-based medicine and tertiary care. Caritas Christi, one of the oldest health care networks in New England, includes 1,500 affiliated physicians, seven health care facilities and 15 outpatient centers, offering a continuum of health services to more that a quarter-million people each year in eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and northern Rhode Island. Other hospitals in the system are Caritas Norwood Hospital, Caritas Holy Family Hospital and Medical Center in Methuen, St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester, and Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton.

Tufts medical students participate in the Medical Center's extensive teaching program, which includes the preceptorship program for first- and second-year students and third-year clinical clerkships in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and obstetrics and gynecology. As clinical clerks, students assume an active role in the care and management of patients.

In addition to rotations on the general medical and surgical services, fourth-year clerkships are available in the surgical subspecialties of orthopaedic surgery, surgical endoscopy and research. The medical subspecialties include cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, infectious disease, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, pulmonary disease and intensive care. Fourth-year electives also are available in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, psychiatry, pathology and radiology.

Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center conducts active postgraduate programs in internal medicine, cardiology, hematology/oncology, vascular disease, neurology, pulmonary disease, critical care medicine, nephrology, infectious disease, psychiatry, general surgery, orthopedics, thoracic surgery, urology, anesthesia, neurosurgery, and OB/GYN.

In addition to a traditional internal medicine residency training program, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center offers a primary care residency program in internal medicine, as well as a preliminary year in medicine. The outpatient facilities are varied and include the Watertown Family Health Center, Brighton Marine Health Center, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Home Care Program and a hospital-based practice.

As a premier research institution, Caritas St. Elizabeth's is ranked among the nation’s top independent hospitals in the amount of funding received from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Medical Center’s Biomedical Research Division conducts internationally recognized studies in cell biology, hematology, vascular and infectious disease, oncology, pulmonary medicine, and psychiatry.

The cardiovascular program has the distinction of being the first to use gene therapy in a clinical setting. The group also explores surgical and non-invasive uses for lasers in coronary and peripheral vascular diseases and is a leader in balloon valvuloplasty. The vascular laboratory is pre-eminent in the study of clotting disorders, and the gastroenterology program focus on inflammatory bowel disease, H.pylori, pancreatitis, and laser applications.

Women's Health at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

A commitment to women's health care is embodied in the vast array of services available at the St. Margaret's Center for Women and Infants at Caritas St. Elizabeth's, an integrated institution of the Tufts-affiliated residency program in obstetrics, gynecology and maternal fetal medicine. The Center combines a comprehensive range of services, from state-of-the-art obstetrics to the care of women at mid-life and beyond.

Obstetricians in the center deliver approximately 1,400 newborns annually and offer education and experience to residents and students in medicine and nursing. In addition to the third and fourth year student rotations, there is also a monthly rotation within the medical residency in internal medicine. The Nursing Midwifery Service provides formal as well as clinical instruction in normal obstetrics.

As a regional perinatal transfer facility, the Center cares for high-risk obstetric patients and neonates, supervised by board-certified specialists in maternal-fetal medicine. It has a large neonatal intensive care unit, Level III certified nursery with full-time neonatologists and staff pediatricians.

The Center also offers a full range of gynecology and gynecological oncology services in conjunction with Tufts Medical Center.

Basic and applied research in obstetrics and gynecology focus on both maternal and fetal health and includes special interest projects on a variety of conditions.

Caritas St. Elizabeth's supports the provision of services through neighborhood health centers and provides full ambulatory care services at its own on-site clinics in gynecology and obstetrics.

Other programs affiliated with women's health include the center for Breast Care, providing diagnostic services and full-range treatment for breast disease; the Primary Care/Mid-Life Health Center, providing hormone replacement therapy and other treatments and counseling for menopause and osteoporosis; and the Vein Center, providing diagnosis and treatment of vein problems, including varicose veins.

  

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