Boston Medical Center – Brighton
About Us
BMC Brighton is an academic medical center known for its top-rated physicians and advanced treatments, offering access to high-quality emergency and specialty care close to home for residents of Brighton and surrounding communities.
Expert Specialty Care in Your Community
BMC Brighton, a Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine teaching hospital, is a 291-bed academic hospital that provides patients and families access to some of Boston’s most advanced treatments and specialty care, including:
- The nationally recognized, award-winning Center for Advanced Cardiac Surgery
- An Advanced Primary Stroke Center certified by the Joint Commission
- One of only two hospitals in Massachusetts to receive the American Heart Association’s Elite Plus level recognition for stroke care
- A Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) that provides critical care for newborns with the highest risk and need of support
Dedication to Our Community for More than a Century
For over 100 years, BMC Brighton has been a mainstay for its community members, serving our patients and neighbors in the heart of Brighton and our surrounding communities of Allston, Boston, Brookline, Newton, Watertown, Weston, and beyond.
Our team of doctors and specialists provide comprehensive, compassionate care in partnership with the communities they serve, assessing the unmet needs in our neighborhoods, participating on local action committees, delivering preventative care and education, and regularly funding community-based healthcare initiatives.
Expanding Access to Healthcare
Originally founded to meet the medical needs of impoverished and elderly women in Boston, our hospital remains committed to closing gaps in access and outcomes for the most underserved members of our community.
As the tertiary care hospital for Massachusetts’ “Gateway Cities”—from the northern mill cities of the Merrimack Valley to Brockton, Fall River, and Taunton to the south—we care for transfer patients from some of the Commonwealth’s most historically underserved regions.
We also work closely with the Health Equity Accelerator, a BMC Health System initiative whose goal is to transform healthcare to eliminate gaps in life expectancy and quality of life among different races and ethnicities.
Together, we are advancing our mission of health justice in crucial clinical areas and thinking beyond the hospital setting to fuel economic mobility in disinvested communities.
Awards and Recognition
- Named #1 in Massachusetts for Surgical Care (2024)
- One of Healthgrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery (2024)
- Recipient of the Healthgrades Surgical Care Excellence Award (2024)
- Designated an Advanced Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission in collaboration with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
- Recipient of the Healthgrades Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award for seven years in a row (2018–2024)
- Named among the Top 5% in the Nation for Cardiac Surgery (2024)
- Named among the Top 10% in the nation for Cardiac Surgery for seven years in a row (2018–2024)
- Named among the Top 10% of Hospitals in the Nation for Surgical Care (2024)
- Recognized as “high-performing” by U.S. News & World Report for prostate cancer surgery and kidney failure (2024)
- Five-Star Recipient for Coronary Bypass Surgery for three years in a row (2022–2024)
- Five-Star Recipient for Valve Surgery, Defibrillator Procedures, Gallbladder Removal Surgery, and Treatment of Diabetic Hospitalizations (2024)
- Five-Star Recipient for Defibrillator Procedures (2024)
- Recipient of the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines®: Stroke Gold Plus Award (2024)
- Named on the American Heart Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes℠ Honor Roll (2024)
- Nationally designated as a Blue Distinction Center for Knee and Hip Replacement by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (2023)
- Awarded three-year accreditation by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer (2023)
