Harvard Medical School and five top teaching hospitals in Boston have reached an agreement in which the independent hospitals will provide the financially strapped medical school with more than $30-million over the next three years, The Boston Globe reported today. The medical school is unusual in American higher education for neither owning its own teaching hospital nor drawing significant financial support from one, even though its faculty members teach and conduct research at the Boston hospitals and they, in turn, benefit from connections with the Harvard name. The medical school hopes to reach similar agreements with 12 other teaching hospitals, bringing the total three-year contribution to $36-million.
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2 Responses to Teaching Hospitals in $36-Million Deal to Help Harvard Medical School
greenhills73 - June 21, 2010 at 4:20 pm
The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine does not own a hospital; however, it is affiliated with five different community hospitals.
dhenderson46 - June 22, 2010 at 8:16 am
I am having a hard time understanding how Harvard, the world’s richest university, has a “financially strapped” medical school. Perhaps these matters are more complex than I imagine. What is the explanation for this?