Mount Auburn Hospital

Mount Auburn Hospital
Caregroup Healthcare System
Main Entrance from Mount Auburn Street
Geography
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	42°22′28″N 71°08′02″W / 42.374414°N 71.133776°W / 42.374414; -71.133776Coordinates: 42°22′28″N 71°08′02″W / 42.374414°N 71.133776°W / 42.374414; -71.133776
Organization
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Harvard Medical School
Services
Beds	213 Occupancy Rate = 76%
History
Founded	1886
Links
Website	http://www.mountauburnhospital.org/
Lists	Hospitals in Massachusetts

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Mount Auburn Hospital is a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. It was founded by Civil War nurse and administrator Emily Elizabeth Parsons as the first hospital in Cambridge in 1866. It was reopened in 1886 and until 1947 was known as Cambridge Hospital.

CareGroup, Inc. is the parent non-profit holding company for Mount Auburn Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham, and New England Baptist Hospital.

The Department of Radiology was founded by Dr. Richard Schatzki. He was the first to describe the most common cause of difficulty swallowing, now known as the Schatzki ring. The department has an active radiology residency program.