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...Boston City Hospital's (BCH) loss of accreditation will not affect the services or medical student training programs which Harvard operates at the hospital...
...Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, a national medical rating organization, stripped BCH of its accreditation Wednesday for the first time in the hospital's 106-year history. BCH officials immediately asked the commission to inspect the hospital again in June...
Harvard operates four medical services at BCH - one each in medicine, surgery, neurology, and neurosurgery - which altogether provide care for up to 300 patients. These services are staffed by 150 faculty members, and 100 interns and residents from the Harvard Medical School. Each year 250 Harvard Medical students receive their clinical training by working in the services...
...commission does not even comment on the quality of professional care or the educational training programs," Dr. William V. McDermott, Cheever Professor of Surgery and chief medical officer at BCH, said yesterday. He added that the commission was set up by hospitals only to insure quality in the hospital's housekeeping, administration, and physical plant...
Ebert said that loss of accreditation "certainly should not discourage medical school graduates from coming to BCH as interns...