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Administrators at Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have not said anything about whether cutting costs will mean cutting jobs at the two hospitals, nor have they said much else to their nearly 19,000 employees, according to employees interviewed at the hospitals yesterday...
Tosteson said he considers the merger part of a larger process of eventually unifying the entire Harvard medical faculty. He had announced this summer that Harvard's five flagship teaching hospitals--Brigham and Women's, MGH, Beth Israel, Children's and Deaconess--would be participating in greater cooperation with the goal of eventual unification...
...decision of Brigham and Women's to make it two-fold came about in June," he said. "I applaud the vision and courage of the leadership of Brigham and Women's and MGH in coming together...
Jack Connors, a trustee at Brigham and Women'swho directed the press conference, said the mergerwas a "historic occasion...
Eugene Braunwald, chair of the Brigham andWomen's department of medicine, said the combinedhospitals will have a greater emphasis of primarycare, a stated priority of the Clinton health careplan. "We hope to develop...a network which willtilt the balance of care to primary care andcommunity service," he said