Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston) news and information

Boston hospitals have dealt with emergency department closures, police investigations and hundreds of media requests as they treat patients injured during Monday's explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
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Seven Boston area hospitals were treating at least 143 patients who were injured in the explosions that occurred earlier Monday at the Boston Marathon. At least three people had died.
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The presidents of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Clinic told employees and affiliates Wednesday they are in preliminary talks with each other and three doctors groups about an alliance that could rival Partners HealthCare in scale and reach.
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Dr. Eric Dickson was named to replace John O'Brien as president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care, effective Feb. 25. Dickson, 46, is president of 1,060-physician UMass Memorial Medical Group and senior associate dean at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. O'Brien, 62,...
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In a striking settlement of a high-profile case, a Harvard doctor who said she endured years of sexist treatment at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will collect $7 million — and will have the hospital's pain clinic named in her ­honor.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, named Nancy Formella COO.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said it plans to sign a letter of intent to acquire Jordan Health Systems, a not-for-profit organization that owns a 155-bed hospital in Plymouth, Mass.
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In launching their new accountable care organization, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Beth Israel Deaconess Physician Organization agreed to invest $12 million per year over the next five years in care management and infrastructure improvements meant to promote seamless coordination...
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A Massachusetts ban on ambulance diversion did little to increase emergency department overcrowding, research from an Annals of Emergency Medicine study concluded.
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Partners HealthCare, a prominent Boston health system, plans to pay $42 million under a tax in Massachusetts' healthcare cost-containment law.
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