As you will notice on the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Web site, the hospital offers extraordinary care in virtually every clinical specialty and sub-specialty. Many of our physicians and health care providers are nationally recognized for their expertise and, as a result, their insights are often sought by journalists and bloggers from all over the world. This news section highlights some of the news releases and articles featuring input from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center and its clinical staff.

Lahey Clinic, Beverly Hospital and Addison Gilbert Hospital were honored with an “A” Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits.

The FDA will release a list of every healthcare organization and provider who has purchased any product from NECC.

Lahey Health System announced today the business and education leaders, legal experts, physicians and entrepreneurs who will form the new Lahey Health System Board of Trustees.

Lahey Clinic will hold the 18th annual Robert E. Crozier, MD Lecture in Gastroenterology on September 21.

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Lahey Clinic remains at the forefront of clinical research through its participation in five transnational, multicenter clinical trials for fracture care.

Lahey Clinic and The Medical Development Group announce a jointly sponsored forum on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 entitled “Clinical World Is the Critical Partner for New Products and Technology,” focusing on examples of recent cooperative relationships between Lahey’s Department of Urology, with support from Radiology, and local medical device companies.

Lahey Clinic recently appointed Richard L. Kalish, MD, MPH, MS, as chair of the new Division of Primary Care at Lahey. This new division includes the departments of General Internal Medicine at Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington and Lahey Clinic Medical Center, North Shore in Peabody, as well as a dozen community group practices.

Dr. Wise passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, August 12. A funeral service will be held at St. Paul’s church in Wellesley, MA at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 18, 2012.

Prostate cancer is a complicated and controversial topic, with high quality evidence available to both support and refute the benefits of screening and treatment. The most salient issue with prostate cancer is overtreatment, not PSA screening. Lahey Clinic has a robust, active surveillance program for appropriate low risk patients.

Lahey Clinic congratulates Paul J. Hesketh, MD, interim director of the Sophia Gordon Cancer Center and director of Thoracic Oncology, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) in June.

Lahey Clinic has been ranked sixth in the Boston area and seventh in Massachusetts in U.S News and World Report’s 2012-2013 Best Hospitals Survey. The magazine honored Lahey as a best hospital in the United States for Urology care.

Bernard M. Bettencourt, Jr., DO, MPH has been appointed medical director for the Lahey Physician Hospital Organization (PHO). The Lahey PHO will function as the contracting unit for Lahey Clinic within the new Lahey Health System.

Northeast Health System and Lahey Clinic Foundation announced today that their affiliation agreement is complete and they have officially established the Lahey Health System.

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Lahey Clinic has been ranked fourth in the Boston-area in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals metro area rankings. The Clinic moved up three positions in the rankings as compared to last year’s results.

Flu season is upon us. We want you and your family to remain healthy.

Keith Stuart, MD, head of Oncology at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, Corrine Zarwan, MD, and the team at the Sophia Gordon Cancer Center are pleased to announce the publishing of The Lahey Clinic Guide to Cooking Through Cancer: 100+ Recipes for Treatment and Recovery.

Lahey Health has signed an agreement with Epic, a worldwide leader in health information technology, to implement the new EHR in a phased approach, which is scheduled to begin in June 2013.

The Neurosurgery Movement Disorders Symposium will be held Saturday, April 20, from 9 am to 12 pm, at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Caution: Under today's circumstances, please be aware that Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts is open for business as usual. However, if you live in any of the communities that the state police have shut down this morning, call your physician's office or the hospital's main line at 781-744-5100 to reschedule your appointment.

The service joins our network of MRI departments and centers within Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. MRI services will continue at the same location with the same doctors, but with newly expanded hours.

For many women, undergoing a double mastectomy is a deeply emotional and intimate experience. A patient must make the dramatic and difficult choice to surrender a natural part of herself that is very much aligned with her feminine identity.