NEWTON, MA—Newton Mayor Setti D. Warren (third from left) and Kevin Tabb, MD, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), (third from right), recently cut the ribbon to mark the opening of the new Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare-Chestnut Hill outpatient facility at Chestnut Hill Square in Newton.
The ceremony included remarks from Kevin Tabb, MD, Mayor Warren, Jayne Carvelli-Sheehan, and Linda Sloane Kay. After the ceremony, public officials, BIDMC physicians, clinicians, and other guests toured the facility and attended a reception.
Douglass Karp, Executive Vice President, New England Development, said, “We’re very pleased to welcome Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare-Chestnut Hill to Chestnut Hill Square and to congratulate them on opening such an impressive new facility. BIDMC’s new outpatient center, together with its Advanced Urgent Care Center, will provide area residents with a comprehensive range of primary care and medical and surgical services.”
“We’re looking forward to providing our patients with easy access to these important services,” said Tabb. “Having comprehensive medical services in a brand new building with state-of-the-art systems at a convenient Route 9 location – in essence an extension of the Longwood Medical corridor – provides us with an enormous opportunity to better serve our patients.”
The new BID center, located in the 30,000 square-foot facility, will offer primary care, urgent care, and 20 medical and surgical specialties with physicians and staff from BIDMC. Specialties include OB/GYN and Women’s Health; Sports Medicine with Orthopedics, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy; Imaging with CT scanning; on-site lab; a Spine Center; acupuncture; and massage. In addition, surgical specialties include oncology, breast clinic, colorectal, and podiatry.
BID’s Advanced Urgent Care Center, planned to open August 4, differs from other urgent care facilities in that every patient is seen by a board-certified emergency medicine physician, the same doctors who work in Beth Israel Deaconess hospitals’ emergency rooms. Patients can access this care without appointments seven days a week, 10 hours a day.
About Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching, and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and currently ranks third in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is in the community with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, Anna Jaques Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, Lawrence General Hospital, Signature Health Care, Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare, Community Care Alliance, and Atrius Health. BIDMC is also clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and Hebrew Senior Life and is a research partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.org. For more information, on the new facility and the open house, visit www.bidmc.org/chestnuthill.