Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is an academic teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1996 through the merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded 1896). It is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Beth Israel Lahey Health. The hospital has 766 beds and operates a Level I trauma center. Among independent teaching hospitals it is one of the largest recipients of biomedical research funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), with research funding approaching US$200 million per year and more than 850 active sponsored projects and 200 clinical trials. The center is active in research on applications of artificial intelligence in medicine.