Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc

Inpatient services lhmc provides high quality inpatient care in the areas of general medicine and critical care & surgery. the burlington campus has a licensed complement of 335 beds, including 283 medical/surgical beds, 44 intensive care beds, and 8 coronary care beds. medical/surgical patient accommodations are all single-bed rooms located in nine inpatient units. critically ill patients are cared for either in the medical intensive care unit, the cardiac intensive care unit or the surgical intensive care unit. lahey medical center, peabody, has a licensed complement of 10 inpatient medical/surgical beds.the burlington campus maintains 22 operating suites and the peabody campus maintains 5 operating suites. the surgical staff specializes in procedures such as liver and kidney transplants, major surgery of the digestive organs, cardiac and pulmonary systems, total joint replacements, colon and rectal surgery, minimally invasive surgical techniques including robotic surgery, and urologic, neurosurgical and laser procedures, among others.the liver transplantation team at lhmc was the first in new england to perform adult living-donor transplant procedures. today, surgeons use advanced technology to perform minimally invasive surgery to reduce recovery time for transplant and other procedures. lhmc has one of the largest cardiovascular treatment centers in the region, providing expertise in advanced cardiology services such as angioplasty and electrophysiology. lhmc's cerebrovascular disease center is among the most advanced in the region for the treatment of strokes and brain aneurysms. lhmc is a teaching hospital of the tufts university school of medicine and sponsors and participates in residency programs for more than 15 medical specialties. as a research center, lhmc is involved in more than more than 200 clinical trial protocols and participates in numerous national and international studies. additional detail on the educational and research missions of lhmc is included in the narrative support to this form 990 schedule h. the burlington location serves more than 3,000 patients a day through our 335-inpatient hospital beds, our ambulatory care center, our 24-hour emergency department and our level i trauma center. for the period covered by this filing, lhmc performed more than 7,200 surgical cases and had approximately 24,000 inpatient discharges.

Emergency serviceslhmc includes 24-hour emergency departments in both burlington and peabody. the care team includes full-time, board-certified emergency physicians and nurses with extensive training in emergency medicine. as a teaching hospital, lhmc also trains future leaders in emergency medicine to deliver the best possible care to patients. lhmc in burlington is the only level i trauma center north of boston, with specially trained clinicians and facilities ready to provide time-sensitive, critical care for hundreds of thousands of people in our region. in 2017, lhmc opened the doors to a new state-of-the-art emergency department in burlington, offering advanced emergency care in a facility built specifically to meet the needs of the communities served by the hospital. the new expanded facility is the result of extensive research and planning and features 36 private patient rooms, an advanced imaging suite for ct scans and x-rays, four trauma bays, and three private exam rooms for patients in need of behavioral health services as well as enhanced infection and decontamination areas and a fast track triage area that provides improved access to care and less time spent in the waiting room.in addition, the hospital's peabody emergency department is the only emergency room and hospital in peabody. the facility is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and is staffed by specialty-trained emergency medicine personnel. for the period covered by this filing, lhmc saw more than 66,000 emergency room visits.

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