Partners HealthCare System, Inc., (PHS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Its mission is to provide integrated, high-quality health care and to enhance healthcare quality and value.

In addition to the founding members, PHS includes North Shore Medical Center, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, McLean Hospital, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Shaughnessy Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital, as well as community health centers, rehabilitation and home care services and primary care and specialty physicians.

There are many advantages to NSMC’s membership in Partners Healthcare. As part of the largest healthcare system in Massachusetts, NSMC physicians and staff are part of an extraordinary network of expertise and information. This talent is available to our patients in many ways, including clinical program development, technology advances and joint research efforts.

Collaboration with MGH/BWH

With the support of PHS, NSMC has developed a host of collaborative programs with Massachusetts General Hospital including cardiac surgery and angioplasty in the NSMC Heart Center and a fully integrated pediatric program with Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. Collaboration between the NSMC Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, and Dana Farber/Partners Cancer Care brings promising clinical trials to patients of the North Shore. There are ongoing efforts in several of these areas to apply standard practices and protocols to patient care in both hospitals.

NSMC also offers several programs in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Our reproductive endocrinology program is fully integrated with the Center for Reproductive Medicine at BWH. Through the NSMC Women’s Center in Danvers, the services of the BWH Maternal Fetal Medicine program are available. Staffed by BWH perinatologists, this program focuses on prenatal diagnosis and management of high-risk pregnancy.