Partners HealthCare Annual Report 2010
Imagine you wake up in the middle of
the night and as you walk to the bathroom,
your right arm goes numb and you can’t
remember your name.
FOUNDING MEMBERS: Brigham and Women’s Hospital • Massachusetts General Hospital
MEMBERS: Faulkner Hospital • Martha’s Vineyard Hospital • McLean Hospital
Nantucket Cottage Hospital • Newton-Wellesley Hospital • North Shore Medical Center
Partners HealthCare at Home • Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. • Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
The people of Partners HealthCare know what to do.
800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02199-8001
(617) 278-1000 www.partners.org
“Our mission will be our guide as we
provide the highest quality care that is
affordable to our patients and to society.”
Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA
President and CEO, Partners HealthCare
Our vision
To dedicate ourselves to the delivery of superior care that
is patient- and family-centered, accessible, and equitable.
To provide a coordinated, cost-efficient, and transparent
care model that will benefit patients across the continuum
from prevention to long-term.
To touch the communities we serve, local or global, with
sustainable improvements in the care we provide with a keen
focus on underserved populations.
To lead in research that fosters collaboration, bringing
discovery to the patient’s bedside, and sharing those successes
with the world so future generations may benefit.
To invest in education and training to nurture the next
generation of leaders who can carry forward the lessons learned.
To promote the development of our workforce by creating
opportunities for achievement and advancement.
To seek ways to deliver the highest quality health care to all.
As we reflect on the past year and look to the future, we do with a sense
of hope. We know each day we will improve the care that we provide to
our patients and their families. And we believe that care must be affordable
for society. Our mission will be our compass as we accept a leading role
in helping to create solutions with political and business leaders, insurers,
and the public.
The ideas for our solutions, some of which we share in this annual
report, come from a strategic vision that Partners leadership developed
in collaboration with teams from our remarkable institutions. We are
dedicating ourselves to the delivery of safe, effective, and coordinated
patient- and family-centered care that will be efficient, accessible, and
transparent. As a health system blessed with many of the brightest
minds in medicine, we will design a roadmap for success.
Jack Connors, Jr.
Chair, Board of Directors
Partners HealthCare
With health care a popular topic in public conversations, we also see this
as a time to tell the story of the Partners mission. We have been relatively
quiet in the past, but we believe our voice needs to be heard. We cannot
shy away from sharing our research breakthroughs that are changing lives,
voicing our commitment to medical education that will support a new
generation of health care providers, and defining our steadfast dedication
to the communities we serve.
As always, our values will guide us. Our constellation of talent, our depth,
and diversity will help us to carve a path that will forge our position as
leaders in health care today, tomorrow and for generations to come.
To find out more about Partners’ new Strategic Initiative,
go to: Partners.org/newnoteworthy/StrategicInitiative.html
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Not all hospitals provide you with the same quality of care.
When you arrive at the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department
with symptoms of a stroke, you are moved through triage in minutes and a nurse
immediately alerts the stroke team that you need attention. You quickly are taken
to a radiology center located in the same area, where you are given a brain CAT scan.
As soon as a stroke is confirmed, you are given tissue plasminogen activator, tPA.
Your wife calls 911. You’ve had a stroke
and you arrive at a Partners hospital
that is ready and able to help you.
The tPA dissolves the clot and prevents you from being left with a lifetime of
disability. To be most effective, it must be administered within three hours from
the beginning of a stroke. Neurologists say that the longer the wait, the more
likely irreversible brain damage will occur.
The four Partners hospitals that routinely handle stroke cases have achieved
96–100 percent performance in prompt administration of tPA. The statewide
average was 61.7 percent. In June 2010, the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health found “wide variation among hospitals in the use of [this] powerful
stroke drug.”
Emergency care is continually improving
throughout our system.
The Emergency Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is
committed to improving the patient and family experience while decreasing the
door to doctor time. Patients are greeted, examined by a physician, and then a
team – doctor, nurse, and support staff – is responsible for the patient, and decides
whether to admit him or her to either BWH or Faulkner Hospital, a community
teaching affiliate of the Brigham.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital leaders studied emergency visits to determine how to
improve the patient experience. Dividing visits into discrete segments, they found
ways to move patients smoothly through the emergency process. Improvements
include eliminating the need for patients to provide information multiple times,
gathering detailed information at the bedside, and posting wait times on the
hospital’s web site and via smart phone applications.
Emergency patients on the North Shore with stroke symptoms receive immediate
and exceptional care from North Shore Medical Center at its community hospitals
in Salem and Lynn. Last year, both hospitals were recognized for superior
compliance with nationally accepted standards of rapid diagnosis and treatment
of stroke patients in their emergency departments.
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Care redesign: focusing on people with common
but expensive diseases.
Partners clinical teams are currently focused on working to find better, more
cost-effective ways to treat four common diseases: diabetes, cardiovascular
disease, colon cancer, and your condition: stroke. This new work builds on
nearly a decade of quality improvement at Partners and will further advance
the implementation of evidence-based, patient-centered care.
You are cared for by a Partners team
of doctors and nurses who provide
high-quality, coordinated care.
High costs are driven by a small fraction of patients.
Medicare patients can be sicker and have multiple conditions, which explains
why 10 percent of Medicare patients in the U.S. are responsible for 70 percent
of costs. Focusing on the four diseases mentioned above can help control costs.
A breakthrough against runaway Medicare costs.
Chronically ill, medically complex Medicare patients often need more care and
support than can be given during a routine office visit. Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH) was selected by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
to find a way to deliver a higher quality of care that would also reduce costs for
Medicare patients in the study.
By using nurse case-managers to coordinate patient care during all phases of
treatment, MGH saw a seven percent reduction in costs over three years, while
admissions were reduced and deaths decreased measurably.
As part of a care network, Partners member hospitals and doctors can effectively
adopt successful, cost-saving strategies. In February of last year, Brigham and
Women’s Hospital joined MGH in its collaboration with Medicare and enrolled
more than 3,000 Medicare patients under the care of their primary care physician
practices, including several at Brigham’s community teaching affiliate Faulkner
Hospital. A nurse care coordinator works with the patient’s primary care team
to identify and overcome any gaps in care.
North Shore Medical Center has also adopted the type of case management
program that showed success at MGH. In 2010, North Shore Physicians Group,
the medical center’s network of primary and specialty care physicians, enrolled
1,500 patients who are being followed by nurse case-managers.
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Shorter stays benefit knee replacement patients
and save money.
A team of Brigham and Women’s orthopedic surgeons has improved knee
replacements for patients and produced significant cost savings for the hospital.
By working with patients and caregivers, changing medications, and altering
post-operative activity, the team found that patients reported less pain, had
better outcomes, and spent less time in the hospital. Stays went from an average
of 3.2 days to 2.4 days.
While you’re in our hospital, we’re
focused on getting you the care you need
to get you home quickly and safely.
Serving more patients, reducing the cost per patient.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is responding to the growing needs of its
community without adding personnel or space by making better use of existing
resources. Changes include starting surgeries 10 minutes earlier in the day and
moving patients expeditiously from post-anesthesia to either a hospital bed or a
coordinated discharge. By serving more patients without adding staff or space,
NWH is noticeably reducing its cost per patient.
Using technology to promote patient safety.
At Partners, 90 percent of prescriptions written by our doctors are done at a
computer, which dramatically improves medication safety and saves money by
encouraging use of generic drugs. According to Reuters, only 57 percent of
Massachusetts doctors e-prescribe; The New York Times reported that only
17 percent of hospitals nationwide prescribe this way. Partners hospitals also
use smart intravenous infusion pumps, the electronic medication administration
record (eMAR), and bar code technology to help ensure that the right patient
gets the right drug at the right dose at the right time.
A Journal of the A merican Medical A ssociation study by Brigham and Women’s
Hospital researchers showed that prescribing by computer reduced serious
inpatient medication-related errors by 55 percent, and a New England Journal
of Medicine study showed that bar coding/eMAR lowered serious medication
errors by 51 percent.
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Reducing 30-day readmissions.
You’re back home, but your care continues.
Once you leave the hospital, the last thing you want is to be readmitted. A
survey of Massachusetts hospitals showed more than 10 percent of patients
were readmitted for the same or unrelated complaints within 30 days.
For the hospital, this is also expensive. A congressional study found that
three-quarters of readmissions are likely avoidable, often traced to transitions
from caregiver to caregiver, and from inpatient to outpatient care. Partners is
working to reduce preventable readmissions by improving training; focusing
on communication with patients and their family members; identifying patients
at higher risk of readmission and working closely with them, and improving
hand-offs to sites where discharged patients will receive the next round of care.
Find your strength at Spaulding or at home.
If you are recovering from stroke, rehabilitation can be the longest stretch on your
road to recovery. Spaulding Rehabilitation Network, ranked fourth nationally by
U.S.News & World Report, operates six inpatient facilities and 23 outpatient clinics
in eastern Massachusetts, allowing patients to receive expert therapy without
having to travel long distances.
The caregivers at Partners HealthCare at Home use advanced medical tools and
technologies to provide in-home care through highly trained nurses, therapists,
home health aides, and other professionals. They work closely with one another
and with you and your family to make sure that you regain your strength as soon
as possible.
Following patients home.
Patients enrolled in North Shore Medical Center’s Heart Failure Program
benefit from very personal, intensive disease management and are less likely to
be readmitted to the hospital. The program is an example of a wellness approach
that makes caregivers responsible for the health of certain high-cost patients
outside the walls of the hospital, in a way that can help reduce costs.
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Your house is not your only home.
Your care may be delivered or coordinated through a “medical home,” an
innovative model for ensuring efficient, comprehensive care. Your primary care
physician leads a medical team that takes responsibility for all of your care, and
helps you navigate the health care system. For a stroke patient, your medical home
physician assesses you, provides care, coordinates with specialists such as neurologists
and rehabilitation experts, and also arranges mental health services for emotional
issues that can arise after stroke.
As you return to your routine, you have new
ways to stay in touch with your primary care
team to assure your continued recovery.
Creative ways to improve the doctor-patient relationship.
The Massachusetts General Hospital Ambulatory Practice of the Future, a primary
care practice for MGH employees and their spouses that brings new technology to
medicine, opened its doors in July 2010. In this new approach, patients are more
involved in their care and are followed by a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary
team. The physical spaces of the medical office and exam rooms have been altered to
benefit both patient and caregiver. The goal is to keep patients healthy by delivering
customized, continuous care to patients, with better outcomes at lower costs.
Stay in closer touch by computer.
Through online portals like Patient Gateway, you have an efficient way to stay in
touch with your physician or care team. Partners is using technology to connect you
to your doctor through the internet so you can ask questions, access your medical
records, check lab results, and make appointments. This will allow doctors and
nurses to handle routine matters quickly, leaving time to focus on patients with
more complicated conditions. The portal virtually pays for itself in efficiency.
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Some of the many ways Partners makes a difference.
We are the single biggest private employer in the state, providing 54,000 jobs.
We bring millions in NIH dollars to the state. Massachusetts General and
Brigham and Women’s Hospitals are the top two independent hospitals receiving
National Institutes of Health research funds; much of this supports work in life
sciences, genetics, and personalized medicine.
We provide and support mental health and substance abuse services, despite
losses of nearly $60 million; we have added capacity while many others have closed
beds for financial reasons.
We support 21 community health centers with capital investments of $83 million
since 1994; they care for 325,000 low-income patients.
We’ve committed $40 million to the state to reduce health premiums for
small businesses.
We deliver free and reduced-rate care for 120,000 patients without the means
to pay; the value of this care is more than $330 million annually.
The Kraft family gift of $20 million will improve access to and quality of care
for the neediest people in Massachusetts, across New England, and throughout the
U.S. The Kraft Family National Center for Leadership and Training in Community
Health will create a fellowship program to train a new generation of community-based
physician leaders. The funds, given by Robert and Myra Kraft and their family, will
also support community cancer treatment programs.
Well over a century after MGH
harnessed the power of ether, shown
in this landmark painting of the
hospital’s Ether Dome operating
theatre, today’s faculty continues to
unlock the mechanisms of anesthesia,
and trains leading anesthesiologists,
medical students, and practicing
clinicians. Emery Brown, M.D.,
Ph.D. (inset), of the MGH
Department of A nesthesia,
Critical Care, and Pain Medicine,
was interviewed recently by The
New York Times on his research
into how anesthesia works and how
to administer it safely.
Massachusetts General Hospital this year celebrates its bicentennial, marking a
storied tradition of compassionate caregiving, groundbreaking research, educational
excellence, and improvements to the health of local communities. The third-oldest
general hospital in the country and the oldest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical
School, the MGH was chartered in 1811 as a general hospital that would care for the
city’s sick and poor while providing a place for physicians to learn the art of medicine.
Today, the MGH continues to uphold and fulfill this important mission.
McLean Hospital is also commemorating its 200th anniversary, founded at the
same time as MGH in 1811; it is today the top-rated independent psychiatric hospital
in the nation.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital is celebrating its 100th birthday in 2011, honoring its
past while looking forward to its future as a member of the Partners HealthCare family.
It is the island’s only year-round hospital serving a resident population of 10,000, which
swells to 50,000 in the summer.
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital welcomed over 2,300 supporters and community
members to their new hospital at an opening ceremony on April 11, 2010. In a
remarkable five-year grassroots campaign to rebuild the hospital, every dollar was
generously donated by the island community.
Eleven Nobel Laureates are numbered among our nationally-respected physicians,
as well as 87 members of the prestigious Institute of Medicine, and three winners of
the Lasker Prize, called “the American Nobel Prize.”
In 1954, Joseph Murray,
M.D., a Brigham surgeon,
won a Nobel Prize for leading
a team that performed the
world’s first successful human
organ transplant (inset).
In 2011, a Brigham team of
30 specialists led by Bohdan
Pomahac, M.D., built on the
tradition of Dr. Murray and
performed the first successful
full face transplant in the
U.S., continuing the hospital’s
national leadership in
transplantation.
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Partners HealthCare Leadership
Partners HealthCare is an integrated health
FOUNDING MEMBERS:
MEMBERS:
system founded in 1994 by Brigham and
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization
Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts
Massachusetts General Hospital
Faulkner Hospital
General Hospital. In addition to its two
academic medical centers, the Partners
system also includes community and
Partners Trustees
Partners Officers
Jack Connors, Jr.
Chair
James J. Mongan, M.D.
(through December, 2009)
Anne M. Finucane
G. Marshall Moriarty, Esq.
Charles K. Gifford
Gary A. Spiess, Esq.
Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D., M.B.A.
Henri A. Termeer
Albert A. Holman, III
Dorothy A. Terrell
Professor Jay O. Light
David A. Thomas
Maury E. McGough, M.D.
Andrew L. Warshaw, M.D.
Carol C. McMullen
Beverly Woo, M.D.
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
McLean Hospital
Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D., M.B.A.
President
Chief Executive Officer
Albert A. Holman, III
Treasurer
MGH Institute of Health Professions
specialty hospitals, community health
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
centers, a physician network, home health
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
and long-term care services, and other
North Shore Health System
health-related entities. Partners is one of
North Shore Medical Center:
Patricia M. Salamone
Secretary
the nation’s leading biomedical research
Salem Hospital
Union Hospital
organizations and a principal teaching
MassGeneral for Children at North Shore Medical Center
affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Partners
North Shore Physicians Group
HealthCare is a non-profit organization.
Partners Community HealthCare, Inc.
Cathy E. Minehan
Partners Community Health Centers:
BWH Health Centers:
Brookside Community Health Center
Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center
MGH Health Centers:
Charlestown HealthCare Center
Chelsea HealthCare Center
Revere HealthCare Center
Independently Licensed Health Center:
(relationship with MGH)*
North End Community Health Center
In addition, Partners is affiliated with 15 community
health centers which are operated independently or under
license from other hospitals.
Partners Continuing Care:
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Spaulding Hospital Cambridge
Spaulding Hospital North Shore
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod
Spaulding Nursing & Therapy Center North End
Spaulding Nursing & Therapy Center West Roxbury
Clark House
Partners HealthCare at Home
MAJOR TEACHING AFFILIATE OF:
Harvard Medical School
*The NECHC has a unique governance structure and affiliation
arrangement with MGH (most recently revised in 2007) reflecting
the health center’s historic independence.
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Partners HealthCare Leadership
Board Chairs
Leadership
Chief Medical Officers
G. Marshall Moriarty, Esq.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Carol McMullen
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Michael S. Jellinek, M.D.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Anthony D. Whittemore, M.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Robert A. Barbieri, M.D.
Brigham and Women’s Physicians
Organization
Maury E. McGough, M.D.
North Shore Health System
Allen L. Smith, M.D., M.S.
Brigham and Women’s
Physicians Organization
Robert G. Norton
North Shore Medical Center
Jessica C. Dudley, M.D.
Brigham and Women’s
Physicians Organization
David J. Trull
Faulkner Hospital
Thomas H. Lee, M.D.
Partners Community
HealthCare, Inc.
Stephen C. Wright, M.D.
Faulkner Hospital
Mary Ann Tynan
Faulkner Hospital
Timothy D. Sweet
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
Cathy E. Minehan
Massachusetts General Hospital
David F. Torchiana, M.D.
Massachusetts General
Physicians Organization
David S. Barlow
McLean Hospital
George E. Thibault, M.D.
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Stephen C. Anderson
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Gary A. Spiess, Esq.
North Shore Medical Center
(through January, 2010)
Richard E. Holbrook
North Shore Medical Center
(from January, 2010)
Sharon L. Smith
Partners Community HealthCare, Inc.
Stanley J. Lukowski
Partners Continuing Care
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Partners HealthCare at Home
Hamilton N. Shepley
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod
(through November, 2010)
Timothy J. Walsh
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
Peter L. Slavin, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
David F. Torchiana, M.D.
Massachusetts General
Physicians Organization
Scott L. Rauch, M.D.
McLean Hospital
Janis P. Bellack, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Sylvia Getman
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
(through June, 2010)
Margot Hartmann, M.D.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
(from October, 2010)
David E. Storto
Partners Continuing Care
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Partners HealthCare at Home
Maureen Banks, R.N., M.S.,
M.B.A., C.H.E.
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod
Spaulding Hospital Cambridge
Spaulding Hospital North Shore
Christopher Attaya, M.B.A., F.H.F.M.A.
Partners HealthCare at Home
(through October, 2010)
Carol W. Sim, R.N., M.P.H.
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod
(through September, 2010)
Pieter Pil, M.D.
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
Britain W. Nicholson, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Timothy D. Ferris, M.D.
Massachusetts General
Physicians Organization
Joseph Gold, M.D.
McLean Hospital
George P. Butterworth, M.D.
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Leslie G. Selbovitz, M.D.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Jennifer Daley, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Partners Community HealthCare, Inc.
(through March, 2010)
Joanne Nowak, M.D.
Partners Hospice
(through July, 2010)
David Lowell, M.D.
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod
Maurice Greenbaum, M.D.
Spaulding Hospital North Shore
(through April, 2010)
Charles Pu, M.D.
Spaulding Hospital North Shore
(from April, 2010)
Jonathon Schwartz, M.D.
Spaulding Hospital Cambridge
Ross D. Zafonte, D.O.
Chief of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, Vice President
of Medical Affairs, Research,
and Education
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Mitchell S. Rein, M.D.
North Shore Medical Center
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Partners HealthCare Leadership
Chiefs of Service
Founding Hospitals
Robert L. Barbieri, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Michael Gimbrone, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Pathology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Jay R. Harris, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of
Radiation Oncology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thomas S. Kupper, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Dermatology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Joseph Loscalzo, M.D., Ph.D.
Physician-in-Chief and
Chairman, Dept. of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
A. John Popp, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Martin A. Samuels, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Neurology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Steven E. Seltzer, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Radiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
David A. Silbersweig, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry
and Institute for the Neurosciences
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thomas S. Thornhill, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of
Orthopedic Surgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Charles A. Vacanti, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Anesthesiology,
Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Ron M. Walls, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of
Emergency Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Michael J. Zinner, M.D.
Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman,
Dept. of Surgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Jay S. Loeffler, M.D.
Chief of Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
David N. Louis, M.D.
Chief of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert L. Martuza, M.D.
Chief of Neurosurgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
W. Scott McDougal, M.D.
Chief of Urology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dennis A. Ausiello, M.D.
Physician in Chief and
Chief of Medical Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Joan W. Miller, M.D.
Chief of Ophthalmology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Alasdair K. Conn, M.D.
Chief of Emergency Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph B. Nadol Jr., M.D.
Chief of Otolaryngology
Massachusetts General Hospital
David E. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Dermatology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, M.D.
Chief of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel A. Haber, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, MGH Cancer Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harry E. Rubash, M.D.
Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Leonard B. Kaban, D.M.D., M.D.
Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Isaac Schiff, M.D.
Chief of the Vincent
Obstetrics & Gynecology Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert E. Kingston, Ph.D.
Chief of Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ronald Kleinman, M.D.
Chief of the Pediatric Service
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Keith D. Lillemoe, M.D.
Surgeon in Chief and Chief
of Surgical Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
(from May, 2011)
James H. Thrall, M.D.
Chief of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph P. Vacanti, M.D.
Chief of Pediatric Surgery
and Surgeon in Chief
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Andrew L. Warshaw, M.D.
Surgeon in Chief and Chief
of Surgical Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
(through May, 2011)
Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, M.D.
Chief of Anesthesia
Massachusetts General Hospital
Anne B. Young, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ross D. Zafonte, D.O.
Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Massachusetts General Hospital
Partners
Ronald Kleinman, M.D.
Chair, Partners Pediatrics
Scott L. Rauch, M.D.
Chair, Partners Psychiatry
And Mental Health
Harry E. Rubash, M.D.
Co-Leader, Partners Orthopedics
Thomas S. Thornhill, M.D.
Co-Leader, Partners Orthopedics
Community Hospitals
Hilary A. Aroke, M.D.
Chief of Infectious Disease
North Shore Medical Center
Edward N. Bailey, M.D.
Chair of Pediatrics
MassGeneral for Children at
North Shore Medical Center
Bruce A. Beckwith, M.D.
Chair of Pathology
North Shore Medical Center
(from April, 2010)
Bart Blaeser, D.M.D., M.D.
Chief of Oral Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
Bimal P. Jain, M.D.
Director of Pulmonary/Intensive Care
NSMC Union Hospital
Alain A. Chaoui, M.D.
Chair of Family Practice
North Shore Medical Center
William V. Kastrinakis, M.D.
Chief of General Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
Paul M. Copeland, M.D.
Chief of Endocrinology
North Shore Medical Center
Barrett T. Kitch, M.D.
Chief of Critical Care Medicine
North Shore Medical Center
(from December, 2009)
Noel P. DeFelippo, M.D.
Chief of Urology
North Shore Medical Center
Dean M. Donahue, M.D.
Chief of Thoracic Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
Robert Freedman, M.D.
Chief of Opthalmology
North Shore Medical Center
Terry J. Garfinkle, M.D.
Chief of Otolaryngology
North Shore Medical Center
Richard D. Goodenough, M.D.
Chief of Vascular Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
Anthony J. Guidi, M.D.
Chair of Pathology
North Shore Medical Center
(through March, 2010)
Joseph O. Jacobson, M.D.
Chair of Medicine
North Shore Medical Center
(through March, 2011)
Mitchell S. Jacobson, M.D.
Chief of Nephrology
North Shore Medical Center
(from January, 2011)
Kevin M. Koshy, M.D.
Chief of Nephrology
North Shore Medical Center
(through January, 2011)
Andrew H. Leader-Cramer, M.D.
Chief of Neurology
North Shore Medical Center
Mark A. Lewis, M.D.
Chief of Dermatology
North Shore Medical Center
William Lloyd, M.D.
Chief of Rheumatology
North Shore Medical Center
(through January, 2011)
Everett Tyronnie Lyn, M.D.
Chair of Emergency Medicine
North Shore Medical Center
James A. MacLean, M.D.
Chief of Allergy/Immunology
North Shore Medical Center
Maury E. McGough, M.D.
Chief of Primary Care
North Shore Medical Center
Michael M. Medlock, M.D.
Chief of Neurosurgery
North Shore Medical Center
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Partners HealthCare Leadership
Chiefs of Service
Community Hospitals (continued)
James F. McIntyre, M.D.
Chair of Radiation Oncology
North Shore Medical Center
Joseph Miaskiewicz, M.D.
Chief of Hospitalist Medicine
North Shore Medical Center
William J. Murzic, M.D.
Chief of Orthopedic Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
Albert Namias, M.D.
Chief of Gastroenterology
North Shore Medical Center
Paul S. Peicott, D.P.M.
Chief of Podiatry
North Shore Medical Center
Prodyut Poddar, M.D.
Chief of Thoracic Surgery
NSMC Union Hospital
Allyson L. Preston, M.D.
Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology
North Shore Medical Center
Keith W. Rae, D.M.D., M.D.
Chief of Plastic Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
David J. Roberts, M.D.
Chief of Cardiology
North Shore Medical Center
Marc S. Rubin, M.D.
Chair of Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
Mark A. Schechter, M.D.
Chair of Psychiatry and
Mental Health
North Shore Medical Center
M. Christian Semine, M.D.
Chair of Radiology
North Shore Medical Center
Neil S. Shore, M.D.
Director of Pulmonary/Intensive Care
NSMC Salem Hospital
Glynne D. Stanley, M.D.
Chief of Anesthesia
North Shore Medical Center
Khalid Syed, M.D.
Chief of Rheumatology
North Shore Medical Center
(from January, 2011)
Thomas J. VanderSalm, M.D.
Chief of Cardiac Surgery
North Shore Medical Center
James Gessner, M.D.
Chief of Anesthesiology
Faulkner Hospital
Pardon R. Kenney, M.D.
Chief of Surgery
Faulkner Hospital
Richard E. Larson, M.D.
Chief of Emergency Medicine
Faulkner Hospital
Stephen Pochebit, M.D
Chief of Pathology
Faulkner Hospital
Bethany Richman, M.D.
Interim Chief of Radiology
Faulkner Hospital
Martin A. Samuels, M.D.
Chief of Neurology
Brigham and Women’s/
Faulkner Hospitals
David A. Silbersweig, M.D.
Chief of Psychiatry
Brigham and Women’s/
Faulkner Hospitals
Michael Wilson, M.D.
Chief of Orthopedics
Faulkner Hospital
Stephen C. Wright, M.D.
Chief of Medicine
Faulkner Hospital
Avraham Almozlino, M.D.
Chief of Neurology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Mary Chris Bailey, M.D.
Chief, Pediatric
Emergency Medicine
(from April, 2010)
Joel Bass, M.D.
Chair of Pediatrics
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Thomas L. Beatty, M.D.
Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Dennis J. Beer, M.D.
Chief of Pulmonary Medicine
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Mark R. Belsky, M.D.
Acting Chair, Department of Orthopaedics
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
(from January, 2011)
Joanne Borg-Stein, M.D.
Chief of Physical Medicine
& Rehabilitation
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
John A. Buehler, D.M.D.
Chief of Oral Surgery
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Herbert Cares, M.D.
Acting Chief of Neurosurgery
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Jacob Joffe, M.D.
Chair of Anesthesiology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Mark F. Rounds, M.D.
Chief of Otolaryngology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Thomas Cunningham, M.D.
Chief of General Internal Medicine
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Arthur Kennedy, M.D.
Chief of Geriatrics
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Joel J. Rubenstein, M.D.
Chief of Cardiology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Richard L. Curtis, M.D.
Chief of Gastroenterology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Christopher Kwolek, M.D.
Chief of Vascular Surgery
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Daniel P. Ryan, M.D.
Chief of Pediatric Surgery
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Henry D’Angelo, M.D.
Chair of Family Medicine
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Jeffrey Lamont, M.D.
Chief of Urology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
David Slovik, M.D.
Chief of Endocrinology/Diabetes
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Sandra M. Fitzgerald, M.D.
Chair of Psychiatry
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Mark Lemons, M.D.
Chair of Emergency Medicine
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Jill Smith, M.D.
Acting Chief of Ophthalmology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Lawrence S. Friedman, M.D.
Chair of Medicine
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Michael A. Lew, M.D.
Chief of Infectious Diseases
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Richard E. Wilker, M.D.
Chief of Neonatology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Henning Gaissert, M.D.
Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
William LoVerme, M.D.
Chief of Plastic Surgery
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Henry M. Yager, M.D.
Chief of Nephrology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Don L. Goldenberg, M.D.
Chief of Rheumatology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Steven Miller, M.D.
Chair of Radiology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Specialty Hospitals
Anthony J. Guidi, M.D.
Chair of Pathology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Frederick Millham, M.D.
Chair of Surgery
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Eric Hazen, M.D.
Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
(from February, 2011)
Timothy O’Connor, M.D.
Chief of Hematology/Oncology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Esther J. Israel, M.D.
Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Steven Pestka, M.D.
Chief, Hospitalist Service
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Scott L. Rauch, M.D.
Psychiatrist in Chief
McLean Hospital
Ross D. Zafonte, D.O.
Chief of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation, Vice President
of Medical Affairs, Research, and Education
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Richard L. Zaniewski, D.O.
Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine
Spaulding Hospital North Shore
Francis Renna, M.D.
Chief of Dermatology
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Joel H. Schwartz, M.D.
Chief of Hematology/Oncology
North Shore Medical Center
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Partners HealthCare Leadership
Chief Nursing Officers
Partners Senior Management
Jacqueline G. Somerville, R.N., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President,
Patient Care Services and
Chief Nursing Officer
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
(from January, 2011)
Joseph D. Alviani, Esq.
Vice President, Government Affairs
(from November, 2010)
Mairead Hickey, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.H.A.
Chief Nursing Officer and Senior
Vice President, Patient Care Services
(through August, 2010)
Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
(from September, 2010)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Judy Hayes, R.N., M.S.N.
Vice President of Nursing,
Chief Nursing Officer
Faulkner Hospital
Dennis A. Ausiello, M.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Sheridan L. Kassirer
Vice President, Quality Management
and Clinical Programs
Peter R. Brown
Chief of Staff
Peter K. Markell
Vice President, Finance
Lee A. Chelminiak
Vice President, Public Affairs
David McGuire
Vice President, Managed Care
Contracting and Finance
Christopher H. Colecchi
Vice President, Research
Ventures and Licensing
Dennis D. Colling
Vice President, Human Resources
Carol Bardwell, R.N., B.S.N., M.S.N.
Chief Nurse Executive
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
Lynne J. Eickholt
Vice President, Business Planning
and Market Development
Jeanette Ives Erickson, R.N., M.S.
Senior Vice President for Patient
Care Services and Chief Nurse
Massachusetts General Hospital
Matthew E. Fishman
Vice President, Community Health
Linda M. Flaherty, R.N., P.C.
Senior Vice President for
Patient Care Services
McLean Hospital
Jane Bonvini, R.N., B.S.N.
Patient Care Services Officer
Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Elaine Bridge, R.N., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President for Patient
Services and Chief Nurse
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Beatrice Thibedeau, R.N.
Senior Vice President,
Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer
North Shore Medical Center
Joanne Fucile, M.S.N., C.R.R.N., O.C.N.
Vice President, Patient Care Services
Chief Nursing Officer
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network
Brent L. Henry, Esq.
Vice President and General Counsel
Michael Gimbrone, M.D.
Harvard Medical School Dean for
Academic Programs at Partners
John P. Glaser, Ph.D.
Vice President and
Chief Information Officer
(through July, 2010)
Thomas P. Glynn, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer
Maureen Goggin
Director, Government Relations
James Noga
Interim Chief Information Officer
(from July, 2011)
Allen Peckham
Chief Development Officer
Jay B. Pieper
Vice President, Corporate Development
and Treasury Affairs
David E. Storto
Vice President,
Non-Acute Care Services
Debra F. Weinstein, M.D.
Vice President, Graduate
Medical Education
Kathryn E. West
Vice President,
Real Estate and Facilities
Partners HealthCare Annual Report 2010
Imagine you wake up in the middle of
the night and as you walk to the bathroom,
your right arm goes numb and you can’t
remember your name.
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