Massachusetts General Hospital Case Study

Introduction
Massachusetts General Hospital is ranked as second in the United States in 2013 by U.S. News & World Report (2013). This hospital is a 999-bed facility in the center of Boston and is known for providing sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic maintenance in almost every speciality of medicine and surgery. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) provides healthcare at local, national and global levels (About MGH, nd, World-class patient care).
Impact of a social event on the growth of MGH
Prior to the MGH inception, there were marine hospital and Boston dispensary to attend to the healthcare needs of the local people. The chaplain of Almshouse in Boston, Rev. John Bartlett planned for providing state-of-the-art health care to the

Sanctioning families at the risk of obesity and hunger with knowledge, skills and confidence to generate healthy meals is included in the goals of MGH (MGH, nd, CCHI, cooking up confidence). The youth programs of MGH were aimed to impart health and science to the children and college students of Boston, Chelsea and Revere (MGH, nd, MGH Youth Programs). A goal of Revere CARES of MGH is to improve the health of the residents of Revere by improving healthy eating and living, and preventing substance abuse (MGH, nd, CCHI, Revere CARES).
The 2012 community health needs assessment conducted by MGH developed strategies to connect youth and families for providing healthcare services in Charlestown and Revere communities and to provide prevention plan for substance abuse in Chelsea community. MGH started the center for community health improvement (CCHI) in 1995. Their goal in opening this facility is to go by their mission of helping the communities to achieve determinate, viable improvements in their health and well-being (Community Health Needs Assessment & Planning Report,

This is launched to enhance the understanding of the role of Microbiome in the ecology of humans and using the concerned knowledge in the development of therapies for various illnesses (About MGH, nd, News Releases). The department of chemistry and biological engineering, and MIT institute of medical engineering and science are involved in collaboration with MGH clinical medicine. This new partnership will follow the one that was implemented among MIT, Ragon Institute of MGH and Harvard, which started in 2009 and worked on developing effective vaccine against AIDS as a part of their study on the role of immune system in human disease (MIT News, Oct. 15, 2014). This new partnership between MIT and MGH has offered $3 million to a two-year period research project dealing with the problems in diagnostics, autoimmune and infectious diseases and in