Somerville Hospital

This is about the hospital, for the mental hospital see Somerville Asylum.

42°23′24.0″N 71°6′33.7″W / 42.390000°N 71.109361°W / 42.390000; -71.109361OrganizationTypeTeachingAffiliated universityHarvard Medical SchoolHistoryOpened1891LinksWebsitewww.challiance.org/locations/somerville/cha-somerville-campusListsHospitals in Massachusetts

The CHA Somerville Campus is an outpatient medical center at 33 Tower Street in Somerville, Massachusetts - near Porter Square and Davis Square.

It is operated by Cambridge Health Alliance.

Services

The main CHA Somerville Campus has a wide variety of health services, including:

• Center of Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• CHA Urgent Care
• CHA Somerville Pediatrics
• Somerville OB/GYN Center
• Radiology and Imaging
• GI Center
• Eye Center
• Medical and Surgery Specialty clinics

Service highlights

• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Urgent Care

National Accreditation:

• CT Service, American College of Radiology
• Ultrasound Service, American College of Radiology
• Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, American College of Radiology

Academics

Cambridge Health Alliance is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Tufts University School of Medicine.

CHA Primary Care, which is based at the hospital, is a main teaching location for the CHA Internal Medicine Residency Program.

History

The hospital was first incorporated in 1891, and the first buildings were erected the following year. In 2009, the inpatient hospital beds were closed, but the emergency department remained open as a satellite emergency facility. In April 2020, the emergency department was converted to an Urgent Care Center.

In 2016, a Somerville woman named Laura Levis collapsed outside Somerville Hospital while unable to find an unlocked door to the emergency room during a severe asthma attack.^[1] Her death led to the passage of a Massachusetts law, nicknamed "Laura's Law," to ensure clear and safe access to hospital emergency departments for pedestrians.^[2]

References

• "Haskell's Historical Guide Book Of Somerville, Massachusetts" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2007-08-30.

External links

• Cambridge Health Alliance website