Who We Are

Faulkner Hospital is a 150 bed non-profit, community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain, just 3.4 miles from the Longwood medical area, and across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900, Faulkner Hospital has a long history of meeting the health care needs of the residents of southwest Boston and surrounding suburbs. We offer comprehensive medical, surgical and psychiatric care as well as complete emergency, ambulatory and diagnostic services. Our largest inpatient services are internal medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, pulmonary, orthopedics, gastroenterology and general/GI surgery. In fiscal year 2009, Faulkner Hospital had over 8,200 discharges and provided ambulatory services for more than 210,000 patient visits.

In 1998, Faulkner Hospital, highly regarded as one of the region's most respected community teaching hospitals, joined with Brigham and Women's Hospital, one of the country's leading academic medical centers, to form a common parent company, Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals, a member of Partners HealthCare System.

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In early 2001, Brigham and Women's Hospital affiliated physicians at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multi-specialty physicians group, began providing primary and secondary care at Faulkner Hospital. Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates is well recognized as a high quality provider of medical care to over 250,000 patients.

Service Philosophy

At Faulkner Hospital, our world revolves around our patients and their families who depend on the excellent medical care, commitment to quality and personal attention they have come to expect from us. Our convenient setting, private rooms, patient friendly environment and compassionate and caring staff are just a few of the many aspects of care that patients tell us make a difference. At Faulkner Hospital, we strive to treat each patient the way we would like to see a member of our own family treated, and it shows. We consistently receive excellent ratings in patient satisfaction surveys. The friendly and supportive environment that our patients appreciate also makes Faulkner Hospital a rewarding place to work.

Teaching

Highly regarded as one of Boston's most important, community teaching hospitals, our post-graduate medical education is rooted in a long and innovative tradition. Faulkner Hospital serves as a training site for students from Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Its medical, surgical and psychiatry residency programs are integrated with those of Brigham and Women's Hospital. The hospital also serves as a site for training several hundred health care professionals, annually, in the areas of nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, social work, psychiatry, rehabilitation therapies, addiction recovery and more. Our commitment to teaching extends to our employees who benefit from our extensive education and training programs.

Commitment to the Community

We are dedicated to improving the health and well being of residents from the areas we serve through our award winning Community Health and Benefits Program. The program serves over 60,000 men, women, children and elderly each year through a wide variety of preventive health education, free health screenings, school partnerships and community outreach.