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Tufts Children's Hospital (formerly Floating Hospital for Children) in Boston, Massachusetts was a downtown Boston pediatric hospital owned by Tufts Medical Center, [1] occupying the space between Chinatown and the Boston Theater District, [2] which closed in summer 2022.
In 1894, the Boston Floating Hospital for Children was established by Rev. Rufus Tobey. The first ship, the Clifford, was lost in a fire on June 1, 1927. [10] After this, the floating hospital relocated to shore and became a permanent part of the Tufts Medical Center campus. [11]
Rev. Rufus B. Tobey (1849–1920) was a Congregationalist pastor who founded the Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, which was later renamed Tufts Children's Hospital at Tufts Medical Center. Rufus Babcock Tobey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on May 6, 1849, to Charles Tobey and Maria Robbins.
The Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, founded in 1894, was inspired by the Floating Hospital in New York but was always a separate organization. It became a land-based acute care hospital in the 1930s and later merged with Tufts Medical Center .
The Tufts Medical Center, the principal teaching hospital of TUSM, came into existence in 1930 through the alliance of the Boston Dispensary, the Boston Floating Hospital for Children, and the Trustees of Tufts College. The New England Medical Center (NEMC) was established as a non-profit corporation to coordinate the administrative activities ...
"In the 1960s, the Boston Dispensary merged with the Floating Hospital for Children and the Pratt Diagnostic Clinic/Tufts Medical Center Hospital. It also formed alliances with Tufts University School of Medicine which serves as the principal teaching affiliate for the Medical Center." [3]
MEDFORD - Five Tufts University men's lacrosse players are still in the hospital following a workout with a Navy SEAL trainee on Monday. The school said that 50 student athletes participated in ...
Succeeded - Merged with Floating Hospital for Children in 1930, forming New England Medical Center (now called Tufts Medical Center). Boston Home for Incurables [26] Boston Suffolk IV 1881-XXXX Closed - Active as a long-term care facility, no longer a hospital. [27] Boston Hope Medical Center