For more than 150 years, Brigham & Women's Hospital has been making advances in medicine, such as the first use of anesthesia in a maternity hospital and the first polio victim to be saved by the iron lung. More recently, the world's first successful human organ transplant was performed at Brigham and Women's, and it was here that an early and severe form of hypertension was identified.
Today, Brigham & Women's Hospital is a 702-bed, non-profit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and is one of the world's foremost centers for clinical care, research, and medical education in the world. Our achievements continue to attract worldwide recognition in scientific journals and research studies and through such honors as the Mercer Award.
Among our accomplishments, we are recognized as New England's leading birthing center and as a designated regional center for high-risk obstetrics and newborn care, as well as one of the country's foremost centers for joint replacement and orthopedic surgery. The country's best heart disease specialists can be found at Brigham and Women's, and our training programs are in high demand among physicians, nurse-midwives, nurses, dentists, occupational and physical therapists, pharmacists, and social workers, among many other fields.
Our employment ethic encompasses our patient-centered approach and a collegial atmosphere where careers can be directed according to one's strengths and where one can learn alongside world class colleagues.