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This past year will go down in BWH history for many significant achievements. While just a few are mentioned here, the contributions of BWHers in every department year in and year out make possible the research breakthroughs, world-class patient care and teaching, and deep commitment to the community for which the hospital is internationally known.
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, begins her role as BW/F President.
A devastating earthquake strikes Haiti, and BWH springs into action to provide support for Haitian employees and to deploy clinical staff to care for earthquake survivors.
Researchers in the Division of Sleep Medicine receive coverage in Time Magazine, USA Today, and by the Associated Press and other outlets, when they put to bed the myth that individuals can quickly recover from a chronic sleep debt with just one or two days of good sleep.
BWH launches the world’s largest study of vitamin D and omega-3.
BWH receives a $3.4 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to fund face transplants for U.S. military veterans with war injuries sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Doctors remove a deadly tumor that was crushing 14-year-old Brianna Ranzino’s airway, and find a way to grow a new trachea from her own cells.
After spending five days traversing BWH’s distributed campus, The Joint Commission is impressed with the hospital’s commitment to delivering high-quality, safe care.
The first phase of the Clinical Laboratory Automation System brings increased efficiency and improved services for clinicians.
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center opens 110 new private patient rooms in the Tower.
The Pre and Post-Operative areas open a newly renovated space, with a combined total of 66 patient bays.
118 Team Brigham members pound the pavement during the Boston Marathon, raising $500,000 for community health programs and services.
The BWH Cardiac Surgery ICU is honored with the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence.
More than 9,600 BWHers complete the 2010 BWH Employee Opinion Survey, the first survey of its kind since 2004.
BWH is among top hospitals in Boston featured on “Boston Med,” an ABC News documentary that follows patients and staff at BWH, MGH and Children’s Hospital.
A BWH multidisciplinary team is among the first in the country to perform first ex vivo lung perfusion, repairing a set of injured lungs after they were removed from a donor.
For the 18th consecutive year, BWH secures its place on U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals, ranking eleventh.
The BWH Wound Care Center opens, offering patients a centralized location for wound care from a multidisciplinary team.
BWH launches OurGenes, OurHealth, OurCommunity, a groundbreaking pilot project that will lay the foundation for a state-of-the-art blood sample and health information bank designed to pioneer the future of biomedical research.
An announcement of the new hand transplant program makes the cover of The Boston Globe.
The Urgent Care Center opens at Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center at Patriot Place.
Researchers find that using bar-code technology and the electronic medication administration record (eMAR) together substantially reduces transcription and medication administration errors, as well as related potential drug-related adverse events.
BWH, along with MGH, Partners and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute support the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation with the launch of Kick Cancer to increase cancer awareness among Patriots fans.
BWH, Partners and community leaders gather for the Mass. Mental Health Center Redevelopment Project groundbreaking.
The TIMI Study Group in the Cardiovascular Division leads the way in research about a new cholesterol drug that raises “good” cholesterol while lowering “bad” cholesterol, drastically outperforming all other available therapies.
The Leapfrog Group names BWH to its list of top hospitals for the sixth consecutive year.
To cap off the year, more than 500 BHWers participate in the inaugural Town Meeting: An Open Forum for BWHers.