Boston Regional Medical Center (often abbreviated to "Boston Regional" or "BRMC") was a 187-bed

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located in Stoneham,

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

. Previously known as New England Sanitarium and Hospital and later New England Memorial Hospital (in both instances a

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medical facility), it was located within the

Middlesex Fells Reservation Middlesex Fells Reservation, often referred to simply as the Fells, is a public recreation area covering more than in Malden, Medford, Melrose, Stoneham, and Winchester, Massachusetts. The state park surrounds two inactive reservoirs, Spot ...

along Woodland Road in

Stoneham, Massachusetts Stoneham ( ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, nine miles (14.5 km) north of downtown Boston. Its population was 23,244 at the 2020 census. Its proximity to major highways and public transportation offer convenient access to Bos ...

, until it closed in February 1999 for financial reasons. Before its use as a hospital, the buildings formed the Langwood Hotel, operated during the 1880s by George F. Butterfield.

Murder

Dr. Linda Goudey, an

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who worked at New England Memorial Hospital, was strangled to death in her car in the hospital's parking lot.

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* Stoneham, Massachusetts Hospitals in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Former Seventh-day Adventist institutions {{SeventhdayAdventist-stub