Tufts Medical Center

Tufts Medical Center
Tufts Medicine
Geography
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	42°20′58″N 71°03′48″W / 42.34951°N 71.06331°W / 42.34951; -71.06331
Organization
Care system	Private
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Tufts University School of Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center
Beds	415
Helipads
Helipad	FAA LID: MA66
Number Length Surface ft m H1 44 14 Rooftop, aluminum
Public transit access	MBTA  Orange Line   Silver Line  SL4, SL5  Bus  15, 501, 504
History
Opened	1796 (as Boston Dispensary)
Links
Website	www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Lists	Hospitals in Massachusetts

Tufts Medical Center (until 2008 Tufts-New England Medical Center), a 15-building campus located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a downtown Boston hospital midway between Chinatown and the Boston Theater District.

The hospital is a community-based full service medical center. It is also the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine and the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where all full-time Tufts physicians hold faculty appointments. Tufts Medical Center is subdivided into a full-service adult hospital and the Tufts Children's Hospital, which closed in 2022^[1] (formerly the Boston Floating Hospital for Children).

It is an integrated part of the TuftsMedicine Health System of which in addition to the Tufts Medical Center includes the hospitals Lowell General Hospital,Lawrence Memorial Hospital (Medford, MA) and MelroseWakefield Hospital, home health services, and physician networks.^{[2] [3][4]}

It is also a major center for bio-medical research. Tufts Medical Center's Interim President is Phil Okala.^[5][6][7] Tufts Medical Center is located within Boston, but also has satellite locations in the suburbs of Quincy, Chelmsford, Framingham, among others.