Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center today filed plans with the BPDA to build a ten-story inpatient building on Brookline Avenue near the Riverway. Read more.
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
By adamg - 1/30/17 - 12:34 pm
A few days after Partners HealthCare announced plans to subsume Mass. Eye and Ear, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Lahey Clinic are announcing plans to merge, the Boston Business Journal reports.
By adamg - 10/7/15 - 2:23 pm
Flu-fighting staffers at Beth Israel get down to this. sick. beat.
H/t Nick McNulty.
By adamg - 6/25/14 - 7:49 am
Firefighters at the hospital. Photo by C.D. See it larger.
Around 7:30 a.m., an electrical panel in the basement of Beth Israel's Feldberg building, 330 Brookline Ave., began to emit smoke. That's rarely a good thing; BFD dispatched firefighters to deal with the resulting small fire, which they did in short order - after shutting off the power.
By adamg - 3/12/14 - 8:07 am
Since December, four emergency-room doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have been experimenting with Google Glass - colored bright orange so patients would immediately know the glass would see them now.
Dr. John Halamka, hospital CIO, describes the pilot project and lessons learned - and recounts Dr. Steven Horng on one particular incident:
By adamg - 2/6/13 - 12:06 pm
Firefighters in hazmat uniforms are at 330 Brookline Ave., investigating a potential basement leak of ethylene oxide, used for sterilization. A crew went in around noon and found no readings for the stuff.
By adamg - 5/31/12 - 8:00 am
Kevin Wiles, Jr. posts a photo of a deer that somehow wound up in a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center bike cage today. Yes, in the medical area.
By adamg - 12/22/11 - 10:13 am
Dr. John Halamka at Beth Israel reports on his wife's diagnosis and plans - with her consent - to blog about her treatment:
Last Thursday, my wife Kathy was diagnosed with poorly differentiated breast cancer. She is not facing this alone. We're approaching this as a team, as if together we have cancer. She has been my best friend for 30 years. I will do whatever it takes to ensure we have another 30 years together.
By adamg - 5/16/11 - 7:14 am
John Halamka, in charge of network computing at both Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, considers recent public cloud outages (from Amazon to Blogger), says he remains optimistic about the basic concept, in part because:
Problems on centralized cloud architecture that is homogenous, well documented, and highly staffed will be more rapidly resolved than problems in distributed, poorly staffed one-off installations.
By adamg - 1/22/11 - 11:07 am
The Globe reports on Paul Levy's $1.6-million severance from Beth Israel Deaconess.
By adamg - 1/7/11 - 9:55 am
Paul Levy announces his resignation to medical-center staffers and readers of his blog.
By adamg - 12/10/10 - 10:17 am
Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have agreed to a new payment system with Blue Cross Blue Shield, in which they get paid a "global" amount based on their average number of patients, rather than per procedure - with bonuses for meeting certain quality and patient-satisfaction goals. Beth Israel CEO Paul Levy considers the effect on the medical center:
By adamg - 11/30/10 - 7:24 am
Beth Israel Deaconess CEO Paul Levy discovers that sign, sign, everywhere a sign works well in songs, but not so well on hospital walls.
By adamg - 11/8/10 - 10:51 am
Last week, Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, cited some work by the staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital to reduce the number of falls patients take in the hospital. Today, he notes his own staff have taken a different approach to the problem. And then he looks at a map of where the two hospitals are and wonders:
By adamg - 10/7/10 - 10:30 am
Cora Sharma talks to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's chief information architect about why the hospital is sticking with browsers even as doctors and other staffers increasingly call up data on smartphones and tablets. For one thing, browers are browsers - there's no need to constantly reinvent the wheel as new devices and operating systems come on the market - he says.
By adamg - 9/29/10 - 8:12 am
Jonathan Potts reports that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is finding it a lot easier to build up its patient count through fluffy features in the local media now that local newsrooms have mostly gotten rid of dedicated health reporters.
By adamg - 9/1/10 - 7:22 pm
The state Attorney General's office says the $50,000 fine levied by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's board of directors against CEO Paul Levy was punishment enough. But the AG's office, which found no abuse of hospital funds, also criticized the directors for not putting a stop to the relationship earlier, even though some board members might have known about it as early as 2003:
By adamg - 8/3/10 - 9:28 am
No, not the "bags fly free" part, at least, not directly. Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, writes hospital staff he was struck by the differences in the way Southwest and American Airlines handle luggage - and the passengers who own it - and began to wonder if Southwest had the right idea by giving passengers more of a say in the way they fly:
By adamg - 8/1/10 - 8:38 pm
Alert New England reports a man with a knife apparently went after a security guard at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center shortly before 6 p.m., then barricaded himself in the basement at the hospital's Brookline Avenue facility. However, by 7:30 the man had managed to flee and was last spotted heading toward the Fenway. Police unleashed the hounds in pursuit.
By adamg - 5/15/10 - 10:04 am
Look for Levy interviews in local media through next week as he goes public and says he won't resign as CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He links to three interviews so far; the Herald has the most details on the woman in question and her role at Beth Israel (more specifically, its Needham hospital).
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