About Boston Medical Center - South
Boston Medical Center – South is an award-winning, 224-bed, acute-care hospital that offers expanded access to comprehensive care, looking beyond its four walls to address the health and wellness needs of its community members.
Expert Care, Close to Home
At Boston Medical Center – South, patients can receive person-centered care across more than 50 specialties and sub-specialties, conveniently in their community. The hospital offers award-winning care, including:
- Centers of Excellence in orthopedics, trauma care, and cardiology
- A Massachusetts Department of Public Health designated Stroke Center
- The region’s only designated Level III Trauma Center
- Family-centered obstetrics with a Level II special care nursery
- An American Heart Association accredited Mission: Lifeline® Heart Attack Receiving Center
Compassionate and Community-Centered
Boston Medical Center – South is dedicated to improving the overall health and wellbeing of our community members here in Brockton and along the Route 24 corridor.
We provide culturally and linguistically appropriate support, focusing on care that addresses the root causes of chronic diseases directly impacting our communities, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and substance use disorder.
BMC South is deeply involved in community outreach, participating in city and neighborhood events to hear from residents and providing education on prevention, self-care, and condition management.
Expanding Access to Acute Care
BMC South delivers expert, patient-centered care directly in the community when it is needed most. In a medical situation where every second counts, we deliver expert emergency care closer to home in our Emergency Department, the only designated Level III Trauma Center in the region, open 24/7.
For neighbors in Brockton, as well as down Route 24 in Avon, Bridgewater, Easton, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, Taunton, and more, BMC South expands access to acute medical care in the times you most need it.
Awards & Recognition
- Achieved The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval as fully Accredited Hospital (2024)
- Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Disease Specific Certification for Total Hip and Knee Replacement (2024)
- American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke GOLD PLUS award (2024)
- American Heart Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes™ Honor Roll award (2024)
- Recognized as “high-performing” by U.S. News & World report for heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Accredited by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as a Trauma Center: Level III TQIP (2023) – three-year accreditation
- Achieved the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer (CoC) accreditation (2023) – three-year accreditation
- American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke quality achievement award (2023)
- Named one of America’s Best Mammogram Imaging Centers by the Women’s Choice Award® (2022)
- American College of Radiology (ACR) Designated Lung Cancer Screening Center
- American College of Radiology (ACR) Designated Comprehensive Breast Imaging Center
- American College of Radiology (ACR) Accredited Facility for: Breast MRI, Breast Ultrasound, CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound
- Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Accredited Facility for: Nuclear Medicine Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography
- College of American Pathologists (CAP) Accredited Laboratory