Partners membership benefits:

• Standardized medical care between hospitals
• Faster, more precise communication through technology
• Teaching hospital input
• Participation in clinical research trials
• Community outreach support

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.

North Shore Medical Center is a member of Partners HealthCare System, Inc., as are 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.

Technological Innovations

NSMC benefits from advanced technology that is revolutionizing the quality of patient care. For example, NSMC physicians can call up a patient’s Lifetime Clinical Record during an inpatient stay to review diagnostic test results, medical history and more. Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOM) enables physicians to place medication, testing or treatment orders electronically – an advance that can dramatically reduce medication and treatment orders. Longitudinal Medical Record (LMR) is another advance that replaces the physician’s paper office chart with an electronic version that enables doctors to access important clinical data from any site within the Partners network.