Partners and Affiliates, cont...
As the region’s tertiary referral center, UMass Memorial Medical Center offers a full complement of advanced technology and support services, providing the region with a broad range of specialists renowned for their expertise in clinical areas, including the Centers of Excellence—heart and vascular, cancer, musculoskeletal and diabetes—as well as emergency medicine, surgery, women’s health and children’s medical services.
UMass Memorial Medical Center is a 781-licensed-bed facility on three campuses: Hahnemann, Memorial and University. UMass Memorial Medical Center records 138,000 visits at its two emergency departments located on the University and Memorial Campuses. In 2010, for the third year in a row, the Medical Center ranked number one in Massachusetts and New England for surviving a heart attack. The Medical Center is also the region’s transplantation center and provides liver, kidney, pancreas and bone marrow transplantation.
On the University Campus, clinical services are focused on radiation therapy and cancer care, neurology, trauma and critical care, psychiatry, surgery and advanced cardiovascular care. The Heart and Vascular Hospital provides integrated, patient-centered heart and vascular care by utilizing the latest research and technology available in cardiovascular medicine and surgery.
The Weight Center provides medical and multidisciplinary support services in the specialty of bariatric medicine, including gastric bypass surgery, behavioral therapy and comprehensive follow-up care for weight management. The University Campus is also home to the Children’s Medical Center, providing extensive services, including the internationally recognized newborn intensive care unit, orthopedics, gastroenterology, neurology, pulmonology, oncology and surgery, and the only pediatric intensive care unit in Central Massachusetts. The Children’s Medical Center offers the Child Protection Program, providing evaluations of children for suspected abuse, neglect and maltreatment. The Children’s Medical Center is accredited by the prestigious National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions, a designation that identifies it as a facility that delivers exceptional care to children.
Also located on the University Campus, the Duddie Massad Emergency and Trauma Center, the region’s only Level I trauma center, is the home base of Life Flight, New England’s first hospital-based air ambulance and the only emergency helicopter service in Central Massachusetts. Since its founding in 1982, Life Flight has become one of the busiest single-aircraft services in the country, with more than 25,000 patient flights. The Duddie Massad Emergency and Trauma Center provides training and consultation to providers and appoints medical directors for area towns’ emergency medical services. UMass Memorial also sponsors the Disaster Medical Assistance Team – Massachusetts (DMAT-MA2), a volunteer group of professional and paraprofessional medical personnel who augment local medical efforts and provide emergency medical care during a disaster or other adverse event.
The University Campus is the site of the new Ambulatory Care Center (ACC), offering a unique complement of state-of-the-art patient care clinics and translational research programs in a seven-story, 258,000-square-foot building. The ACC opened in 2010 and provides convenient access to outpatient services for cancer, diabetes, heart and vascular, orthopedics and to diagnostic testing services.
The Memorial Campus is a leading provider of acute care services in the greater Worcester area and offers a broad array of primary, secondary and tertiary care services. The maternity center delivers more than 4,000 babies a year, more than any hospital in the region. It is the regional referral center for women with high-risk pregnancies, and it provides the region’s only Level III Newborn Intensive Care Unit, a 49-bed unit providing the most advanced life-saving care for fragile infants. The Levine Ambulatory Care Center on the Memorial Campus is the site of the New England Hemophilia Center and provides cancer services, including radiation oncology, gynecological oncology and infusion treatments. It is also the hub for all of the Medical Center’s presurgical evaluation services.
In addition, the Spine Center and the Arthritis and Joint Replacement Center, also located on the Memorial Campus, provide a full spectrum of multidisciplinary care for orthopedic patients, including arthroscopic and open surgery for injury and orthopedic disease. Cardiologists also see patients for routine visits and diagnostic testing.
The Hahnemann Campus is a patient-centered, full-service outpatient center focusing on dermatology, hand and upper extremity surgery and therapy, sports medicine, ophthalmology and cosmetic surgery. This state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery and specialty care practice center offers day surgeries in many specialties as well as laboratory, mammography and X-ray services and primary care services at the Hahnemann Family Health Center.
Clerkships are offered in family medicine, medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery and neurology.