Massachusetts General Hospital

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Ranked #1 in Massachusetts

Ranked #1 in Boston metro area

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA is ranked nationally in 16 adult and 4 pediatric specialties. Massachusetts General Hospital is a 907-bed general medical and surgical facility with 47,243 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 18,776 annual inpatient and 21,844 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 90,413 visits. Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital.

These institutions were also considered in this hospital's specialty rankings:

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital for Children

Adult Specialties

This hospital was among 148 facilities—roughly 3 percent of the 4,793 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.

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Pediatric Specialties

This hospital was one of 80 facilities that made the rankings in at least one of the 10 specialties analyzed for the 2012-13 Best Children's Hospitals.

Nationally Ranked

Editor's Note, 7/17/2012: Some children's hospitals were initially misranked in one or more specialties due to a programming error that affected their scores. The website now displays correct rankings. To see if this hospital was one of the affected hospitals, get details here.

Patient Satisfaction

Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.

Good

Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:

Definitely
89%
State Average
73%
National Average
70%
Probably or definitely not
2%
State Average
4%
National Average
5%

See complete patient satisfaction survey results

Details

For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.

See complete hospital details (provided by AHA)

Affiliated Hospitals or Services

Contact

Massachusetts General Hospital

55 Fruit Street

Boston, MA 02114-2696

(617) 726–2000

www.massgeneral.org

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Boston MA 02114
Shriners Hospitals for Children-Boston
Boston MA 02114
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Boston MA 02114
Franciscan Hospital for Children
Boston MA 02135
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