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LOCATION
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The
The LMA is located on a 213-acre site, three miles southwest of
downtown Boston, adjacent to the neighborhoods of the Fenway and
Mission Hill, and to the Town of Brookline.
SCOPE
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The
LMA’s unique concentration of 24 institutions include three
major Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals, three research or
research treatment centers, three Harvard schools, six historic
colleges organized into the Colleges of the Fenway, a private
secondary school, an HMO, an art museum, one public high school,
a State mental health center, a children’s treatment center, a
religious institution, an international pharmaceutical research
company, and a healthcare coverage company.
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MASCO
members represent 23 institutions in the LMA and include: Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
Children’s Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Emmanuel College, Immune Disease Institute, Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental
Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Joslin Diabetes
Center, Judge Baker Children’s Center, Massachusetts College of
Art and Design, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Simmons College,
Temple Israel, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Wheelock
College, and The Winsor School. Harvard Vanguard Medical
Associates, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Merck Research
Laboratories are Associate Members of MASCO.
EMPLOYMENT/STUDENTS
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 Each
day in the LMA more than 40,000 employees and 18,200 students
provide medical care, conduct research, teach, attend school, or
otherwise support these functions. There are several thousand
additional continuing education students, hospital volunteers,
construction workers and other non-member employees and students
for an estimated total of 73,500 people per day in the LMA, not
including patients or their families.
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Nearly
91% of LMA employees work for healthcare and research
institutions (BIDMC, BWH, CHB, DFCI, HMS/HSDM, HSPH, IDI, JDC,
and Merck).
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The total number of Boston
residents working in the LMA increased by 1,390 people between
2001 and 2005. 33.7% of all LMA employees were Boston residents
in 2005. In the twelve years between 1993 and 2005 the LMA has
averaged a growth rate of 1,200 employees per year (a 57%
increase).
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Approximately
75% of Colleges of the Fenway students come from Massachusetts,
23% are from out-of-state, and 2% are international students.
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Six
of Boston’s 20 four-year small colleges (defined as enrollment
< 4,800), are located in the LMA, and are known as the Colleges
of the Fenway (COF). In 2006 the total enrollment of the COF
made up 48.2% of Boston’s four-year small college enrollment.
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The
Colleges of the Fenway students comprise 15.2% of the total
students attending four-year colleges and universities in Boston.
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There
has been a 82% increase in all LMA students in the twelve years
between 1993 and 2005 (averaging a 23% increase per year;
including the Colleges of the Fenway, Harvard Medical School,
Harvard Dental School, Harvard School of Public Health, and the
Winsor School.
PATIENTS/VISITORS
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In 2005 there were close to
2.2 million in- and outpatient visits to the LMA. In the
eleven years between 1993 and 2004 there was a 1.2% increase
in inpatient admissions
and a 70% increase in outpatient visits.
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In
2005, approximately 47% of all hospital-based outpatient
clinical visits, and fifty-two percent of all inpatient
admissions in Boston, were to LMA hospitals and clinics.
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In 2005,
the LMA institutions accounted for forty-eight percent of
all staffed beds in Boston hospitals and trauma centers,
totaling 1,617 staffed beds in 2005.
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In 2005
there were 14,000 births in the LMA.
LAND USE
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15.4 million
square feet have been developed in the LMA (as of Sept. 2007).
Occupied square feet have increased by approximately 2.2 million
square feet since 2001.
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An
additional 2.4 msf are currently approved or under construction,
to be completed by 2010.
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Potential
additional development, beyond the 2010 timeframe, could total
another 1.3 million square feet.
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In 2001 MASCO projected that the
LMA could grow by 2.6 to 4.4 million square feet over the
next 10 years. The full prediction of 4.4 million square
feet has been built, is under construction, or has been
approved as of Sept. 2007.
ECONOMIC
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Total
revenues for MASCO member institutions were nearly $5 billion in
2005. This represented 1.5% of the percent of the Gross
Domestic Product of Massachusetts in 2005.
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According to
the Boston Business Journal, the total net patient service
revenue for LMA medical institutions (not including Joslin) in
FY 2005 was $2.7 billion dollars.
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LMA payroll
generated an estimated $97 million in state income tax revenues
for the Commonwealth in 2005. The LMA payroll in FY 2005
totaled over $1.83 billion (not including Merck).
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Four of the
top five Independent Hospital recipients of NIH funding
nationwide between FY 2001 and FY 2005 are located in the LMA (BWH,
BIDMC, DFCI, CHB listed in order of rank for 2005).
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Massachusetts was the number two state recipient of National
Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in FY 2005, following
California, receiving $2.27 billion dollars. The LMA is
responsible for forty-one percent of the state total NIH funding
($927 million).
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If the LMA
were ranked as a state, it would be number eight, after North
Carolina, and before Washington.
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National
Institutes of Health (NIH) awards more than doubled for the LMA
institutions from $398 million to $927 million over the decade
between FY 1995 and FY 2005.
WORKFORCE/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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MASCO
member institutions offer over 200 adult and youth community
workforce programs; over 27,000 individuals are served annually
including 16,000 youth, over 2,300 adults and 8,600 incumbent
workers. They provide approximately 2,500 internships; mentor
or tutor over 1,400 people; and hold panels, workshops or site
visits for an additional 10,000+ people.
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Hundreds of millions of dollars are contributed by LMA hospitals
and outpatient clinics in community benefits, along with
hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours, for health care
programs, education and advocacy. The health care programs
range from the development, operation and staffing of health
care centers with partner communities, to outreach by operating
mobile diagnostic van services at 50 different sites, to
advocacy and education related to specific health issues.
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According to the Attorney General’s website four LMA medical
institutions donated approximately $58 million in Net Charity
Care in 2006 (BIDMC, BWH, CHB, DFCI).
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The Colleges of the Fenway are rooted in the community, have a
tradition of community service, and are building the core
economy of Massachusetts. Over 55% of Colleges of the Fenway
alumni live in Massachusetts, totaling 65,890 people. They
support the Commonwealth’s innovation economy (e.g.; scientific
research, higher education and healthcare), while filling core
economy labor shortages including: nursing, pharmacy, radiology,
design, social work, engineering, and inner-city school
teaching.
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The Colleges of the Fenway students alone donate over 120,000
volunteer hours per year (equal to 15,000 work days), they
participate in Alternative Spring Break, actively engage in
service learning through their curricula, practica, and
activities. They spend an additional 750,000 hours working in
the community per year (equal to 93,600 work days or 360
full-time staff). These hours take place in the community with
800 of these sites located in the City of Boston, and 2,125
sites total located throughout Massachusetts.
Prepared by
MASCO Area Planning and Development
9/2007
Note: Data sources include the
American Hospital Association, the Boston Business Journal,
The New England Board of Higher Education Annual Directory of
New England Colleges & Universities 2007, Bureau of Economic
Analysis website,
National Institutes of Health,
MASCO and member institutions.
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