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All Baystate hospitals, Emergency Departments and surgical services are open for care. Baystate medical practices and clinics will reopen for in-person care on Tuesday, February 24. Virtual care/telehealth remains available. Please click read more for any other updates on weather-related information.

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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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