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Boston Emergency Medical Services provides basic life support and advanced life support ambulance units throughout the neighborhoods in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Boston EMS is a public safety agency responding to 911 calls alone or with the Boston Police and/or Boston Fire Departments dependent upon the nature of an incident. The agency employs over 400 emergency medical technicians and paramedics.Boston EMS is a bureau of the City of Boston Public Health Commission. Boston EMS hires Massachusetts State certified EMTs by competitive examination and upon completion of the Boston EMS Recruit Academy, and then promotes paramedics from within the department after completing an intense internship. The department is managed by a command staff consisting of a Chief of Department, a Superintendent-in-Chief, and two Superintendents.There are sixteen ambulance stations located throughout the city. Field operations are commanded by a Deputy Superintendent and assisted by 2 Lieutenants operating in 2 Divisions. A third impact Lieutenant is deployed as needed and during major citywide events. All department vehicles are equipped with Global Positioning and Mobile Data Terminals . An EMT is assigned to the Boston Police Harbor Unit from mid spring though late fall.Boston EMS maintains a fully staffed Special Operations Unit which includes a heavy duty rescue truck, two medium duty rescue trucks, a state-of-the-art MCI bus, support trailers, ATV's and a bike team for special events and major incidents. In addition, several other specialized units provide logistical/technical support for Boston EMS operations, including a modern Dispatch Operations Center located in Boston Police Headquarters, the Training Division, a Community Initiatives Office and Administration & Finance office. The Materials Management Unit provides 24-hour equipment/supply services and the Fleet Services Unit maintain an inventory of approximately 120 department vehicles. There are also Facilities and Communications Engineering sections.
Join the South End Fitness Center community to stop construction of a luxury residential tower over the existing public recreation facilities. Private developers plan to demolish the gym, basketball court and swimming pool, with no plans to rebuild either and the future of the gym remains unclear. The project still requires public approval and your voice can make a difference. Join our movement today!
Solomon Carter Fuller, born in 1872, was a neurologist and the United States’s first African-American psychiatrist. He played a key role in the development of psychiatry in the 1900s and is well known for his research on dementia. Dr. Fuller is credited with helping make the United States the leader in psychiatry that it is today. Dr. Fuller's grandfather had been a slave in Virginia who purchased his freedom and moved his family to Liberia. At the age of seventeen, Fuller left Liberia to attend Livingstone College in North Carolina. He studied medicine at Long Island College Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine where he received his MD in 1897. Dr. Fuller then went to the University of Munich where he studied under Emil Kraepelin , the founder of modern psychiatric genetics, and Alois Alzheimer. Upon graduation, Dr. Fuller became a pathologist at Westborough State Hospital in Massachusetts where he worked for twenty-two years. Dr. Fuller also joined the medical faculty at Boston University School of Medicine and taught for thirty-four years, eventually becoming emeritus professor of neurology. Fuller became known for his work on Alzheimer's disease and on the biological causes of disorders such as schizophrenia and manic depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder). He published the first comprehensive clinical review of all Alzheimer's cases known at the time and was also the first person to translate much of Alois Alzheimer's work on Alzheimer’s disease from German to English. Today, in recognition of Dr. Fuller's achievements, the mental health facility at Boston University is now officially known as the Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center. And in 1972, the American Psychiatric Association and the Black Psychiatrists of America established the Solomon Carter Fuller Institute. Adapted from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health website
The Boston City Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, was a public hospital, located in Boston's South End. It was "intended for the use and comfort of poor patients, to whom medical care will be provided at the expense of the city, and... to provide accommodations and medical treatment to others, who do not wish to be regarded as dependent on public charity." In 1996 it merged with the Boston University Medical Center Hospital to form the Boston Medical Center.HistoryIn the mid-19th century "the hospital was suggested... by Elisha Goodnow, who, by his will, dated July 12, 1849, gave property to the city valued at $25,000, for establishment of a free city hospital in Wards Eleven or Twelve." Architect Gridley James Fox Bryant designed the first hospital, built 1861–1864 on Harrison Avenue in the South End. It was renovated in 1875, and again in 1891–1892.As of 1905, the hospital consisted of " the hospital proper, on the area bounded by Harrison Avenue, East Concord Street, Albany Street and Massachusetts Avenue, containing 430,968 square feet, or 9.9 acres; the South Department, 745 Massachusetts Avenue, containing 125,736 square feet, or 2.9 acres; the ambulance station, boiler and dynamo house, coal-pocket and wharf, Albany street, containing 69,785 square feet, or 1.6 acres; the convalescent home, Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, containing 610,500 square feet, or 14 acres; and the relief station, Haymarket Square, 8,507 square feet, or 0.2 acres."
Boston University School of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education (BUSM-CME) seeks to provide continuing education that impacts and improves the care that health care clinicians give to their patients. In July of 2006, we received the highest rating available for a CME provider, “Accreditation with Commendation,” from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). In addition to providing continuing medical education credits, Boston University School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education is also an approved provider of continuing nursing education. The hallmark of our activities is translating the teaching and research expertise of medical school faculty into achievable goals at the clinical practice level.
We seek to educate those interested in learning more about Parkinson's disease, to assist support groups throughout the State, to help develop programs to meet the needs of Parkinson's patients and their caregivers and to raise funds to find the cure. While a few of us can accomplish some of these goals, most of them require the support and involvement of people like you. The Chapter is an all volunteer organization. The Chapter works closely with the APDA Information and Referral Center located at Boston University Medical Center
At Boston Medical Center, the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Service and the Emergency Department have a longstanding legacy of providing comprehensive emergency and trauma care to the critically ill and injured. With more than 130,000 emergency visits and greater than 2,000 trauma admissions each year, we are the busiest provider of trauma and emergency services in New England. BMC’s Trauma Center is staffed with six full-time dedicated, trauma and critical care attending surgeons and 34 board-certified emergency medicine physicians. Trauma, acute care and emergency services have long been recognized as the flagship programs at this institution and have become a destination for professional education and training as well as leadership within the medical and nursing community.
Faculty & Staff: George J. Annas, JD, MPH William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Chair Wendy K. Mariner, JD, LLM, MPH Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law Leonard H. Glantz, JD Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights Michael A. Grodin, MD Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights Patricia "Winnie" Roche, JD, MEd Associate Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights Gina Duong, MPA Administrative Manager Jesse Walsh Academic Coordinator Description: Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights are complementary disciplines for defining and analyzing how the public's health can and should be most effectively protected. Public health embodies enduring principles of justice, bioethics and human rights, while evolving to meet new public health challenges like bioterrorism, H1N1 influenza, the Haiti earthquake, and obesity. All students in the HLBHR concentration will explore this dynamic interaction in a wide range of public health programs such as public health preparedness, mandatory vaccination, genetic testing, DNA banks and privacy, advertising and regulating dangerous consumer products, preventing workplace hazards, screening for chronic diseases as well as illicit drugs, emergency medical care, patient safety, caring for ill and dying patients, protecting children, responding to mental illness, defining changing family structures and reproductive rights, reforming health insurance, and conducting biomedical research. The Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights concentration provides students with the critical thinking, writing, verbal and research skills that are essential to be an effective advocate for the health of populations. These skills, together with the knowledge gained from coursework, prepare students to work in government agencies, health care institutions, advocacy groups and non-governmental organizations, and, for those wish to pursue their education further, provide a foundation for specialized academic training in law, ethics or human rights. The department faculty members participate in numerous scholarly, professional, and practice activities to advance the use of law, ethics, and human rights to enhance the health, safety and well-being of populations. The department's teaching and research activities explore individual rights and governmental authority to protect health and the potential conflicts between individual rights and governmental action, especially in the realms of constitutional law and international human rights law.
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