Maternal-Fetal Medicine Patient Population
- Baystate Medical Center is the community's major referral hospital for Western Massachusetts and a teaching site of the UMass Chan Medical School—Baystate.
- Baystate serves a unique combination of rural and urban communities in a federally designated healthcare shortage area.
- The proportion of foreign-born residents in the communities served by Baystate Medical is close to 9%, half the statewide proportion. The estimated poverty rate in Hampden County is 14.3%.
- Baystate Medical Center houses the Population-Based Urban and Rural Community Health (PURCH) track for UMass Chan Medical School students.
Baystate Metrics
- Tertiary care referral center: 4,200 deliveries per year | Number of LDRP rooms: 38
- Level 1 trauma center: 716 hospital beds
- Level 3 NICU: 57 bassinets
- Residency Programs: 11 | Fellowship Programs: 30
- 72,000 square foot E.D.
- Large multidisciplinary simulation lab
- Fully-integrated electronic medical record hospital wide
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