Baker Memorial Hospital
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Baker Memorial Hospital, affiliated with the
Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United Stat ...
, was the first "white collar hospital" in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. It was meant to treat people from the middle class receive hospital care on an inpatient basis at affordable rates. Daily rates ranged between $4.50 and $6.50 with a daily cap of about $150. Mary Richardson left a $1,000,000 to fund the hospital in honor of her father, Richard Baker, Jr.


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