View over Longwood Medical and Academic Area facing Huntington Avenue
The quadrangle of Harvard Medical School and adjacent Longwood Medical and Academic Area buildings
The Longwood Medical and Academic Area, also known as Longwood Medical Area, LMA, or simply Longwood, is a medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the Fenway–Kenmore, Audubon Circle, and Mission Hill neighborhoods, as well as the town of Brookline.
The campus houses several schools associated with Harvard University, including Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard's teaching hospitals, and several institutions not formally affiliated with Harvard. Long known as a global center of research, institutions in the Longwood Medical Area secured over $1.2 billion in NIH funds in 2018, which exceeds NIH funding received by 44 states.
Hospitals and research institutions
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
- Joslin Diabetes Center
- Massachusetts Mental Health Center
- New England Baptist Hospital
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Schools and colleges
- Boston Latin School
- Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
- Emmanuel College
- Harvard Medical School
- Harvard School of Dental Medicine
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
- Simmons University
- Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Winsor School
Transportation
LMA is served by two subway stations at opposite ends of Longwood Avenue:
- Longwood station on the MBTA Green Line's "D" branch; and
- Longwood Medical Area on the Green Line E branch
Several public bus routes serve the area and commuter rail service is available at nearby Ruggles Station. The Longwood Collective, formerly known as MASCO (Medical Area and Scientific Community Organization)), offers shuttle buses for affiliated personnel around the Longwood Medical Area and between Harvard University's main campus in Cambridge and its medical campus in Boston. The medical campus shuttle, known as M2, is free for passengers holding a Harvard ID. Shuttles are also offered to JFK/UMass, Ruggles, and Lansdowne Stations, in addition to satellite Fenway parking lots, the Landmark Center at Fenway, The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and to the Renaissance & Columbus Parking Garages. A number of additional stops are listed on the Longwood Collective Website.
Energy
LMA receives electrical power, cooling, and heating from a trigeneration (CCHP) facility, the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP).
Lodging
- Inn at Longwood Medical
- Longwood Inn
- The Baldwin at Longwood Medical Centre
- Yawkey Family Inn
See also
References
- "Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA) Fact Sheet" (PDF). MASCO Area Planning and Development. December 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- The Longwood Collective home page
- MASCO is now the Longwood Collective, Boston Globe, July 21, 2022
- "Shuttle Routes | Longwood Collective". www.longwoodcollective.org. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- Veolia (18 November 2014). "Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP)". Veolia North America. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- "Harvard's Unknown Medical Power Plant - News - The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- Inn at Longwood Medical
- Longwood Inn
- The Baldwin at Longwood Medical Centre
- Yawkey Family Inn
External links
- Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization
- The Diaries of John Hull, Mint-master and Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay
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