Somerville Hospital

CHA Somerville Hospital campus
Cambridge Health Alliance

Somerville Hospital
Geography
Location 230 Highland Avenue, Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Organization
Hospital type Teaching
Affiliated university Harvard Medical School
History
Founded 1891
Links
Website www.challiance.org/Locations/SomervilleHospitalcampus.aspx
Lists Hospitals in Massachusetts

The Somerville Hospital campus is a community teaching hospital located at 230 Highland Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts - near Porter Square and Davis Square.

It is one of three hospital campuses that are part of Cambridge Health Alliance.

Services

The main Somerville Hospital campus has a wide variety of health services, including:

Service highlights

Community Hospital Cancer Program, Am. College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
Primary Stroke Service, MA Department of Public Health

National Accreditation:
- CT Service, American College of Radiology
- Ultrasound Service, American College of Radiology
- Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, American College of Radiology

Academics

Cambridge Health Alliance is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Somerville Hospital Primary Care, which is based at the hospital, is a main teaching location for the CHA Internal Medicine Residency Program.

History

The hospital was first incorporated in 1891, and the first buildings were erected the following year.

This is about the hospital, for the mental hospital see Somerville Asylum.

Further information

References

"Haskell's Historical Guide Book Of Somerville, Massachusetts" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-08-30. 

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