Massachusetts General Hospital

Badge: nationally ranked Nationally Ranked Hospital

Badge: regionally ranked Ranked #1 in Boston

With especially strong scores in 15 specialties, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, was named once again to the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Massachusetts General Hospital is ranked nationally in 16 adult and 6 pediatric specialties. This hospital is a 907-bed general medical and surgical facility with 47,649 annual admissions, according to the latest data. It performed 19,206 annual inpatient and 18,803 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 88,393 visits. Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital. It is also accredited by the Joint Commission (JC).

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

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

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Adult Specialties

This hospital was among 140 facilities—fewer than 3 percent of the 4,825 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 among 76 facilities ranked in one or more of the 10 pediatric specialties in the 2011-12 version of Best Children's Hospitals.

Nationally Ranked

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
88%
State Average
73%
National Average
69%
Probably or definitely not
2%
State Average
4%
National Average
5%

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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.

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Affiliated Hospitals or Services

Contact

Massachusetts General Hospital

55 Fruit Street

Boston, MA 02114-2696

(617) 726–2000

www.massgeneral.org

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