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The Institute for Patient Care

The Institute for Patient Care is an internationally recognized center of excellence consisting of a collaborative of centers and programs driving innovations in patient care, staff education, research and knowledge development and dissemination.

Welcome


The Institute for Patient Care, housed within MGH Patient Care Services (PCS), represents a first-of-its-kind, innovative model for advancing multidisciplinary health care. The Institute is comprised of four separate centers that together encompass several key tenets of the PCS commitment to delivering the highest quality health care: professional development, research, innovation and patient education.
Our Programs Our Centers

Center for Innovation in Care Delivery

The focus of the Center for Innovation in Care Delivery is to bring teams together to identify opportunities, to estimate the impact of change (including workforce demographics, new technologies and regulatory change) and to construct innovation.

Maxwell & Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center

The Maxwell & Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center is here to help you learn about health and illness. Volunteers, nurses, and a health educator are on-hand to help you find easy-to-read pamphlets, magazines, audio tapes, videos, CD-ROMs, web sites and both medical and consumer health books.

Norman Knight Nursing Center for Clinical & Professional Development

The Norman Knight Nursing Center staff, in partnership with other professional groups and departments, are committed to creating a learning environment in which all clinicians and staff can excel. Professional opportunities are made available to staff in an effort to advance knowledge and promote quality patient care.

Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research

The Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research focuses on the promotion of nursing science through the development, use, and evaluation of nursing research and the establishment of clinical roles such as the nurse scientist and nurse researcher to advance the promotion of safe, quality, cost-effective patient care.

The Institute for Patient Care

55 Fruit Street - Austen, 3rd Floor - Boston, MA 02114

Phone: 617-726-3111 - Fax: 617-724-3754

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am - 4pm

Email: pcsipc@partners.org