Tufts Medical Center is an academic medical center that has provided care across New England for more than two centuries and serves as the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. The medical center offers more than 100 specialties and services, including heart care, cancer treatment, neuroscience, orthopedics and organ transplantation, and its emergency services include a level 1 trauma center, a heliport and geriatric emergency care accreditation. Since 2000, Tufts Medical Center has performed more adult heart transplants than any other center in New England. In Boston Magazine‘s latest “Top Doctors” issue, 160 Tufts Medical Center physicians were recognized across 47 clinical specialties. The medical center has received Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the most prestigious credential a health care organization can receive for nursing excellence. Tufts Medical Center recently received a $92 million grant to support the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, which funds research and trains the next generation of researchers.
