'Boston Medical Center' ('BMC') is a
non-profit 581-bed medical center in
Boston,
Massachusetts. It was created by the formal merger of Boston City Hospital (BCH) and
Boston University Medical Center Hospital (BUMCH). BCH was founded in
1855, and BUMCH in
1864 as the first
municipal hospital in the
United States. The two hospitals merged in July
1996. It has the largest 24-hour Level I
trauma center in
New England, and the
Emergency Department had more than 120,000 visits in
2005.
BMC employs more than 1,600 in-house
physicians — including 600
residents and
fellows — and almost 1,500
nurses. It is part of the consortium of hospitals which operates
Boston MedFlight. BMC is the primary teaching hospital for the
Boston University School of Medicine
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Boston Medical Center
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Boston University Medical Campus
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Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan