Tufts Medical Center is a world-renowned academic medical center that has been providing exceptional care across New England for over two centuries. Our clinicians are dedicated to delivering innovative, patient-centered care every day, from our primary care to our Level I Trauma Center to our leading heart transplant program and over 100 specialties and services. We are also the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine and a leading research institution that conducts game-changing medical and health policy research. 

Nationally recognized + leading-edge care

At Tufts Medical Center, we're all about providing the best care in more than a hundred different specialties, everything from heart care and cancer treatment to neuroscience, orthopedics, and organ transplantation. Our emergency services are second to none, including a Level I Trauma Center, heliport and geriatric emergency care accreditation. Since 2000, we've performed more adult heart transplants than any other New England center.

Our whole team works tirelessly to provide the highest quality care to every single patient we see. And it shows – in the latest "Top Doctors" issue of Boston Magazine, no fewer than 160 Tufts Medical Center physicians were recognized across 47 clinical specialties.

We're also thrilled to have received recognition from the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program, which acknowledges outstanding nursing care. This is the most prestigious credential a healthcare organization can get for nursing excellence and quality patient care.

Groundbreaking research + clinical trials

Our researchers are always exploring and developing the coolest new ways to help people stay healthy at every stage of life. They've been making big strides for over 200 years, and they won't stop until everybody is living their healthiest life. We just got a huge $92 million grant to support the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, which is a big deal because it helps us do even more research and train the next generation of researchers.

Who we are

Healthcare is changing, and so are we. We’ve come a long way since our story began on West Foster Street in Melrose more than 130 years ago — like how we restored one person's lost sense of sound by performing the world’s first-ever cochlear implant. Today, we're home to 20+ locations that offer a range of services from 50+ specialties. 

The true value of community healthcare is that people don’t have to travel far to receive top-notch, essential care. MelroseWakefield Hospital is a community care network that includes a breast health center, a cardiovascular center with a full-service cardiac catheterization lab and an operating room where we lead the way in advanced robotic surgery.

And beyond our doors, we’re committed to nurturing a strong, vibrant, healthy community. Everyone is welcome to participate in our more than 40 local health programs. Activities like our Safe Sitter^© babysitting training for junior high students, fall prevention education for seniors and Baby Cafe breastfeeding groups make it easier for people to get the healthcare support they need.

Who we are

Our roots can be traced to 1895, during a time when the area’s first “district nursing program” emerged to offer mill-working families at-home nursing care. For nearly 130 years, the Home Health Foundation has fostered a legacy as the region’s most trusted home healthcare provider for infants, children, and adults. Then, we evolved to meet the needs of our growing community better.

We announced our change to Care at Home in 2022 to reflect our closer relationship with Tufts Medicine. Together, we’re reimagining the healthcare continuum by bringing care closer to home, advancing medicine and focusing on health as much as healing. Our care teams proudly serve 110 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley, northeastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.  

We understand that it’s never easy moving a loved one into hospice care or navigating life as a first-time parent. It’s OK to admit when you need support to support better the people you care about. That’s why we’re here. So wherever you call home, we’ll meet you there.

We honor veterans

We are honored to serve those who have served in the military. We are proud to participate in the We Honor Veterans program, a National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization program in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Through this program, hospice professionals nationwide focus on a single purpose: to provide comfort and support to veterans at the end of their lives.

America’s veterans have done everything asked of them in their mission to serve our country and we believe it’s never too late to give them a hero’s welcome home. It’s an honor to serve these men and women with the dignity they deserve; it’s our way of saying thank you for the sacrifices they have made in serving us.

Who we are

Lowell General Hospital was established more than 130 years ago, and we’re driven by the guiding principle to be one of the best community hospitals in America. We work every day to fulfill that vision, and it all starts with understanding you and your healthcare needs on a personal level. Our 2 inpatient hospital campuses, Cancer Center, Heart and Vascular Center, 4 urgent care locations, affiliated physicians and outpatient facilities provide state-of-the-art technology and a full range of specialty services to the Greater Lowell community.

Here, we balance comfort with clinical excellence and have the certifications to prove it. The American Nurses Credentialing Center has named Lowell General as a Magnet® Recognized Hospital for our positive work environment, innovation, nursing excellence and positive patient outcomes. This recognition embodies our dedication to personalized health and wellness for you, your family, neighbors and more.  

Our care for the community also extends beyond our doors. We’re working to close the gap in accessible healthcare for people of all backgrounds. Partnerships with local high schools, community task forces, nonprofits and local organizations help us identify current and future health needs within our community so we can live healthier lives together.

The laboratory of Andrew Plaut, MD at Tufts Medical Center is focused the area of mucosal immunology and microbiology, and he is presently focused on diseases mediated by IgA deposition into tissues, most notably the kidney disease IgA nephropathy (Berger’s disease). This is a leading cause of glomerulonephritis worldwide and the most common cause of kidney failure based on injury to the kidney glomeruli.

Dr. Plaut and his colleague Dr. Jiazhou Qiu are developing bacterial IgA proteases for treatment of these disorders, with the intent to reverse the kidney inflammation that leads to kidney failure. Earlier, Dr. Plaut collaborated with Dr. William Bachovchin at Tufts University’s Department of Biochemistry in developing the DPPIV inhibitory drugs now being used to treat Type II diabetes.

Dr. Plaut is a staff physician with particular interests in digestive diseases, specifically those patients who have unexplained abdominal pain, diarrhea, abnormal digestion and absorption from the intestine and inflammatory diseases of both the upper and lower intestine, including inflammatory bowel disease.

Over the past 3 decades, Professor Mason has directed a research program whose focus is identifying and implementing nutritional and dietary strategies to prevent colorectal cancer. This research program is based at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, an institutional partnership between Tufts University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and is housed in a 14-story research facility across from Tufts Medical Center. 

Dr. Mason's research laboratory has been primarily interested in examining the roles that 1-carbon nutrients (vitamins B2, B6, B12, and folate) and obesity play in determining the risk of cancer and how knowledge of the mechanisms by which these factors determine risk can be exploited to reduce the societal burden of colorectal cancer. He conducts studies in cell culture and animal disease models and uses information from these preclinical studies to inform his studies in humans. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Government in developing the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans on these matters and the European Food Safety Authority, the European equivalent to the U.S. FDA.      

Tufts Medical Center’s Gastroenterology Research on Absorptive and Secretory Processes (GRASP) Center brings together scientists from throughout the Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine to conduct research on digestive diseases. The GRASP Center is one of 15 digestive diseases research centers in the US funded by the NIH.

Established in 1984, our practice consists of four core laboratories that support research of about 35-40 physician-researchers. These cores provide laboratory services, advice and expertise in state-of-the-art methods for basic research.

The GRASP Center also has pilot/feasibility funds to support new research in digestive diseases by seasoned and young researchers at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine. We also sponsor many research seminars and workshops throughout the year.