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Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) is a community teaching medical center located in Newton, Massachusetts on Washington Street. It is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1881, part of its campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District. It is a member of Partners HealthCare, a network founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Hospital offers a range of medical, surgical and specialty care, including maternity services, a 24-hour emergency department and orthopedic, critical care and oncology inpatient units. ==History== Newton-Wellesley Hospital, originally called Newton Cottage Hospital, was incorporated in 1881. The idea for the hospital began when a local reverend, George W. Shinn, encouraged the mayor of Newton, Royal M. Pulsifer, to provide health care services for sick members of the community. Nine acres were purchased for the building. The hospital opened its doors on June 5, 1886 and admitted its first patient a week later. As a cottage hospital, Newton-Wellesley was built to serve the local population. It consisted of a complex of buildings, radiating from a central administrative building. Patients were cared for in windowed ward rooms, one story high.〔Newton-Wellesley Hospital: A Brief History (1886–1972) Booklet, January 1970, Newton-Wellesley Public Relations Department, Newton, MA.〕 A School of Nursing was established at the hospital in 1888. The first baby was born there in 1890 (by 1965, 50,000 babies had been delivered, including the hospital's first in-vitro baby). Newton-Wellesley acquired its first X-ray machine in 1902, and an electrocardiograph in 1933. In 1910, the outpatient department was opened at the hospital. Most outpatient departments at the time consisted of a doctor and a nurse. But Newton-Wellesley offered a variety of services, each attended by a specialist. The department had an orthopedic service, one of only two in the Boston community.〔 A complex of eleven modestly-scaled buildings (compared to modern hospital facilities), most constructed between 1894 and 1908, were the subject of the 1990 "Newton Cottage Hospital" listing on the National Register of Historic Places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NRHP nomination for Newton Cottage Hospital Historic District )〕 Several of the listed buildings have since been demolished.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MACRIS inventory record for Newton-Wellesley Memorial Hospital-Founders Hall )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MACRIS inventory record for Newton-Wellesley Memorial Hospital-Haskell-Emerson Operating Building )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MACRIS inventory record for Newton-Wellesley Memorial Hospital-Bray, Mellen Ward )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MACRIS inventory record for Newton-Wellesley Memorial Hospital-Eldridge Ward )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MACRIS inventory record for Newton-Wellesley Memorial Hospital-Pratt-Converse Nurses Home )〕 In response to the influx of patients resulting from the combination of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the hospital erected a number of tents and temporary buildings. Patient records began to be kept in 1920, followed in 1924 by the establishment of an official hospital laboratory for bloodwork and urinalyses; the blood bank was first added in 1939. In 1955, the first pacemaker operation at the hospital was performed, followed by the first cardiac catheterization in 1993. The Wikstrom Surgical Center opened in 1993, providing 16 operating rooms, pre-operative and post-anesthesia areas, and a permanent MRI suite. In 1999, Newton-Wellesley Hospital joined Partners HealthCare; it affiliated with MassGeneral Hospital for Children in 2001. A number of new centers were created, including the Spine Center (founded by Andrew C. Hecht in 2001), the Waltham Urgent Care Center (2003), and Maxwell Blum Emergency Pavilion (2007) and the Vernon Cancer Center (construction began 2008〔http://www.nwh.org/your-community-hospital/about-newton-wellesley/history-milestones/〕). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newton-Wellesley Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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