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Originally Posted by janmcn
While watching the horrific coverage from Boston the last two days, anyone can see what a difference some of the best healthcare in the country makes. The paramedics had a choice of some of the best hospitals in the country within a mile and a half including MA General, Tufts, Beth-Israel, Brigham and Women's, and Children's Hospital. Lives were saved because of the superior treatment these people received.
Whether you live or die seems to depend on what part of the country in which you live. They also have universal health care which covers about 90 plus percent of adults and 100 percent of children, and of which 85 percent are very pleased.
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As much as the bad ER situations at TVRH are absolutely appalling, I don't think it's fair to compare care at The Villages Regional Hospital that's about
13 years old to Boston hospitals that have been in existence since the founding of our nation and
are centuries old.
Also, the wealthy seaport and international trade center of Boston was a lot different economically than this pasture land here in what was one of the poorest counties in FL when TV was starting to build.
I was going to list just the founding dates of the Boston hospitals mentioned, but I thought this was interesting stuff:
Massachusetts General founded in 1811
Tufts Medical Center's origins date back to 1796 when the Boston Dispensary was established as the first permanent medical facility in New England, and one of the first in the United States.
Early donors included Paul Revere.
In
1894, the Boston Floating Hospital was established by a Congregational minister, the Rev. Rufus Tobey. At the time, many believed in the cleansing and therapeutic qualities of sea air to improve health, and Tobey had heard of a hospital ship for children in New York.
For the next 33 years, two successive ships were home to the hospital for children in Boston Harbor.
In 1931, after the second Floating Hospital for Children ship was destroyed in a fire, the hospital was relocated to a permanent building onshore.[3]
New England Medical Center was established in 1930 as a union of the Boston Dispensary, the Boston Floating Hospital for Children, and the Trustees of Tufts College. The Pratt Diagnostic Clinic was added in 1946, and in 1950 when Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine relocated to Chinatownthe name was expanded to New England Medical Center Hospital.[
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital
of Harvard Medical School.
It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded in 1896).
Among independent teaching hospitals,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center consistently ranks in the top three recipients of biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Research funding totals nearly $200 million annually.
Brigham and Women's represents the 1980 merger of three Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals:
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital established in
1913
Robert Breck Brigham Hospital established in
1914
Boston Hospital for Women established in 1966 as a merger of:
Boston Lying-In Hospital established in
1832 as one of America’s first maternity hospitals
Free Hospital for Women established in 1875
Children's was founded in
1869 as a 20-bed facility at 9 Rutland Street in Boston's South End and became affiliated with Harvard Medical School in 1903. Below is a partial list* of historic milestones:
1891: Children's establishes the nation's first laboratory for the modification and production of bacteria-free milk.
1920: Dr. William Ladd devises procedures for correcting various congenital defects such as intestinal malformations, launching the specialty of pediatric surgery.
(Wikipedia)