BMC Milestones
1996
Boston City Hospital, Boston Specialty and Rehabilitation Hospital and Boston University Medical Center Hospital merge to form Boston Medical Center. Elaine Ullian is named President and CEO. BMC becomes the primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine and is affiliated with the Boston HealthNet community health centers.
1997
The BMC HealthNet Plan receives approval from the state and begins operations. Currently it serves more than 250,000 members, and is Massachusetts' largest managed care organization for both MassHealth and Commonwealth Care.
1999
First Lady Hillary Clinton visits BMC to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit organization that promotes early literacy by giving new books to children and advice to parents about the importance of reading aloud. The program was founded by BMC Chief of Pediatrics Barry Zuckerman, MD.
2001
The BMC Preventative Food Pantry and Demonstration Kitchen opens. The first hospital-based program of its kind in the nation, it now provides groceries to nearly 7,500 low-income patients and their families each month.
2002
Harrison Pavilion is renamed Menino Pavilion to acknowledge Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's support of Boston Medical Center.
2003
The Yawkey Foundation announces a $15 million gift to BMC to establish a cancer treatment center to be named after the late Congressman Joseph Moakley.
2005
BMC is the first hospital in Boston to begin widespread use of robotic technology, using it to perform surgery for prostate cancer and to remove head and neck tumors in adults.
2006
BMC receives the prestigious American Hospital Association (AHA) Living the Vision Award. The award recognizes leaders in the health care field and is given to organizations and individuals effectively carrying out AHA’s vision of “a society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health.”
2006
The Moakley building opens. Named in honor of the late Congressman Joseph Moakley, the new facility brings together many cancer programs and other programs of clinical excellence and specialty services.
2007
BMC’s Bariatric Surgical program is named Center of Excellence by the American College of Surgeons.
2007
BMC chosen as one of five centers in the United States and the only center in the northeast to participate in the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network.
2008
BMC and BUSM receive a $23 million NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award to help discoveries move more quickly to becoming treatments for patients and to engage communities in clinical research efforts.
2009
The BMC HealthNet Plan earns the No. 2 rank among Medicaid plans in the nation from U.S. News & World Report and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
2009
Karl Kuban, MD, chief of Pediatric Neurology, and colleagues find that children born more than three months premature are at three times the risk for screening positive on the modified checklist for autism in toddlers (M-CHAT). Children who screen positive on M-CHAT may be at greater risk for developing autism. These findings appeared in the Journal of Pediatrics.
2009
Brian Jack, MD, Family Medicine, and researchers from Project RED (Re-Engineered Discharge), a BMC/BUSM research group that develops and tests strategies to improve the hospital discharge process, show how they are able to reduce "hospital utilization"—which includes both 30-day readmissions and emergency department visits—by about 30 percent. The findings are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
2010
Kate Walsh named BMC President and CEO.
2010
Robert Sege, MD, PhD, director of BMC Ambulatory Pediatrics, finds that unemployment is linked with child maltreatment. Learn more.
2010
Karen Freund, MD, MPH, of Medicine and Epidemiology, and colleagues show that screening mammogram rates can be improved among inner-city women if patient navigators help them overcome barriers to getting tested for early signs of breast cancer.
2010
Boston Magazine recognizes 60 BMC physicians in its “Top Docs” issue. The physicians are recognized for being “tops” in their fields.
2011
BMC opens the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Ambulatory Care Center. Learn more.
2011
BMC raises record $2.5 million at 15th anniversary Gala.
2011
BMC receives the Founding Hospital Recognition Award from the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH). BMC is one of the first five founding members of the NAPH. The founders identified the need for an association that could advocate for improved coverage, access, and the general well-being of the most vulnerable patients in the American health system.
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