Laboratory Services also has offsite locations in Natick, Walpole, Waltham and Weston. Īn additional urgent care treatment facility is located offsite at the Waltham Urgent Care Center at 9 Hope Avenue in Waltham, MA. The closest MBTA stop is Woodland, two blocks from the hospital on the D (Riverside) Branch of the MBTA Green Line. The main campus of Newton-Wellesley is located at 2014 Washington Street, Newton, Massachusetts, near the intersection of Routes 16 & 128 (I-95), one mile south of the Mass. The hospital employs approximately 2,500 people. 14,000 surgical cases are seen each year. On average, there are 56,000 visits in the emergency room yearly and more than 3,700 babies born. There are 273 available beds and more than 21,000 discharges every year at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Hecht in 2001), the Waltham Urgent Care Center (2003), and Maxwell Blum Emergency Pavilion (2007) and the Vernon Cancer Center (construction began 2008 ).įacilities and current operations A number of new centers were created, including the Spine Center (founded by Andrew C. In 1999, Newton-Wellesley Hospital joined Partners HealthCare, now Mass General Brigham it affiliated with MassGeneral Hospital for Children in 2001. The Wikstrom Surgical Center opened in 1993, providing 16 operating rooms, pre-operative and post-anesthesia areas, and a permanent MRI suite. In 1955, the first pacemaker operation at the hospital was performed, followed by the first cardiac catheterization in 1993. Patient records began to be kept in 1920, followed in 1924 by the establishment of an official hospital laboratory for bloodwork and urinalyses the blood bank was first added in 1939. In response to the influx of patients resulting from the combination of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the hospital erected a number of tents and temporary buildings. Several of the listed buildings have since been demolished. A complex of eleven modestly-scaled buildings (compared to modern hospital facilities), most constructed between 18, were the subject of the 1990 "Newton Cottage Hospital" listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The department had an orthopedic service, one of only two in the Boston community. But Newton-Wellesley offered a variety of services, each attended by a specialist. Most outpatient departments at the time consisted of a doctor and a nurse. In 1910, the outpatient department was opened at the hospital. Newton-Wellesley acquired its first X-ray machine in 1902, and an electrocardiograph in 1933. The first baby was born there in 1890 (by 1965, 50,000 babies had been delivered, including the hospital's first in-vitro baby).
Ī School of Nursing was established at the hospital in 1888. Patients were cared for in windowed ward rooms, one story high. It consisted of a complex of buildings, radiating from a central administrative building. As a cottage hospital, Newton-Wellesley was built to serve the local population. The hospital opened its doors on Jand admitted its first patient a week later. Nine acres were purchased for the building. Pulsifer, to provide health care services for sick members of the community. Shinn, encouraged the mayor of Newton, Royal M. The idea for the hospital began when a local reverend, George W. Newton-Wellesley Hospital, originally called Newton Cottage Hospital, was incorporated in 1881. The hospital offers a range of medical, surgical, and specialty care, including maternity services, a 24-hour emergency department, and orthopedic, critical care, and oncology inpatient units. It is a member of Mass General Brigham, a network founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Founded in 1881, part of its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District. It is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is a community teaching medical center located in Newton, Massachusetts on Washington Street.
2014 Washington St., Newton, MassachusettsĬolonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Georgian Revival
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