For Healthcare Professionals

MassGeneral Hospital for Children is committed to open access and communication with referring physicians and other healthcare professionals. We are dedicated to making our specialists and services accessible to professionals and to keeping physicians informed when they refer patients for treatment.

This section of our website contains information on how to transfer a patient, as well as hospital policies, news about continuing medical education, and information about residency, fellowships, and clerkships at MassGeneral Hospital for Children.

Our hope is that these pages will make it easier for healthcare professionals to do their jobs so they can do what they do best-care for patients.

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State-of-the-Art Newborn Intensive Care Unit Now Open

MassGeneral Hospital for Children’s new, state-of-the-art Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) opened in June, 2006. The unit features 13,110 square feet of contemporary clinic and patient care space and can serve up to eighteen newborns and families at full capacity. Read more.

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Pediatric Specialists Continue to Break New Ground with ECMO Technology

The introduction of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)technology in the 1960s was a revolutionary breakthrough in medicine. Read more.