About Us

About Us  |   Senior Leadership Team 

St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is a community-based 272-bed tertiary care hospital located in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Recognized throughout the region for delivering exceptional patient care in a compassionate environment, St. E’s is a thoroughly modern inpatient and outpatient facility that is also a teaching affiliate of Tufts University School of Medicine.

The hospital began in 1868 when five laywomen members of the third order of St. Francis founded St. Elizabeth's as a hospital dedicated to the care of women from Boston's South End. Today, St. E’s, as we are affectionately called, has evolved into a full-service facility that offers sophisticated and comprehensive medical care to women, men and families.

Award Winning Care

Our dedication to providing the highest quality of care to our patients and our community is consistently recognized with many of the regions most prestigious awards, including being named to the Thompson Reuters Top 100 Hospitals list for 2011. We've also been recognized for quality and excellence by The Joint Commission, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and more. Read more about our Awards and Accolades.

At a Glance – Who We Are (Calendar Year 2011)

• Licensed Beds: 272
• Discharges: 13,981
• Emergency Visits: 33,737
• Outpatient Visits: 96,468
• Births: 1,012
• Employees: 2,357
• Physicians: 602

John Polanowicz, President
Paul Crawford, Senior Director, Facilities and Support Services
Suzanne G. McLaughlin, RN, MBA, Chief Nursing Officer
Claudia Henderson, Director, Human Resources
Mary O'Brien, Director, Information Services
Sheila O'Connell, Director, Mission and Community Partnerships
David Connolly, Director, Communications and Marketing
Jeffrey P. Dion, Vice President of Finance