Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH)
Geography
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	42°20′12″N 71°06′34″W / 42.3366°N 71.1094°W / 42.3366; -71.1094
Organization
Care system	Private
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Harvard Medical School
Services
Emergency department	Level I Trauma Center[1]
Beds	743[2]
Helipad	FAA LID 36MA
History
Opened	Deaconess: 1896 Beth Israel: 1916 Merged: 1996 Founding member of Beth Israel Lahey Health, a new health care system formed in March 2019
Links
Website	www.bidmc.org
Lists	Hospitals in Massachusetts

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and one of the founding members of Beth Israel Lahey Health. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916 by the Jewish community) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded in 1896 by Methodist deaconesses). Among independent teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has ranked in the top three recipients of biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health.^[3] Research funding totals nearly $200 million annually.^[4] BIDMC researchers run more than 850 active sponsored projects and 200 clinical trials.^[4] The Harvard-Thorndike General Clinical Research Center, the oldest clinical research laboratory in the United States, has been located on this site since 1973.^[5]