''This is about the hospital, for the mental hospital see Somerville Asylum.'' The CHA Somerville Campus is an outpatient medical center at 33 Tower Street in

Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81, ...

- near

Porter Square Porter Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares. The Porter Square station serves both the MBTA Red Li ...

and

Davis Square Davis Square is a major intersection in the northwestern section of Somerville, Massachusetts where several streets meet: Holland Street, Dover Street, Day Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue. The name is often used to refer ...

. It is operated by

Cambridge Health Alliance Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a healthcare provider in Cambridge, Somerville and Boston's metro-north communities in Massachusetts. CHA offers services including primary care, specialty care, and mental health/substance use services. It incl ...

Services

The main CHA Somerville Campus has a wide variety of health services, including: * Center of Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry * CHA Urgent Care * CHA Somerville Pediatrics * Somerville OB/GYN Center * Radiology and Imaging * GI Center * Eye Center * Medical and Surgery Specialty clinics

Service highlights

* Child & Adolescent Psychiatry * Urgent Care National Accreditation: * CT Service, American College of Radiology * Ultrasound Service, American College of Radiology
Breast Imaging Center of Excellence
American College of Radiology

Academics

is a teaching affiliate of

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the

Tufts University School of Medicine The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a Private university, private research university in Massachusetts. It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in downto ...

. CHA Primary Care, which is based at the hospital, is a main teaching location for the CHA Internal Medicine Residency Program.

History

The hospital was first incorporated in 1891, and the first buildings were erected the following year. In 2009, the inpatient hospital beds were closed, but the emergency department remained open as a satellite emergency facility. In April 2020, the emergency department was converted to an Urgent Care Center. In 2016, a Somerville woman named Laura Levis collapsed outside Somerville Hospital while unable to find an unlocked door to the emergency room during a severe asthma attack. Her death led to the passage of a Massachusetts law, nicknamed "Laura's Law," to ensure clear and safe access to hospital emergency departments for pedestrians.

References

External links

Cambridge Health Alliance website
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