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UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest health care system in Central and
Western Massachusetts, and the clinical partner of the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. Learn more (pdf).
Our health care system includes five hospitals, all of which are fully
accredited by the Joint Commission or Det Norske Veritas (DNV):
Our system also includes home health and hospice programs, behavioral health
programs and community-based physician practices. Approximately 1,700 physicians
are members of our active medical staff, and we have 12,350 employees, including
3,000 registered nurses. In total, our hospitals have 1,125 beds. In 2010, we
treated 58,937 inpatients, and counted more than 1.4 million outpatients visits.
We delivered 4,800 babies and our emergency departments handled 263,000
visits.
With our highly sophisticated technology and support services, UMass Memorial
provides the region with specialists nationally acclaimed for their work in
areas such as cardiology, orthopedics, cancer, diabetes, newborn intensive care,
children’s services, women’s services, emergency medicine and trauma.
UMass Memorial Medical Center is accredited by the American College of
Surgeons as the only designated Level One Trauma Center for adults and children
in Central Massachusetts. Our University Campus is home to the new Duddie Massad
Emergency and Trauma Center and Life Flight, New England’s first hospital-based
air ambulance. The region’s only Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit resides
on our Memorial Campus.
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