Facilities & Resources
University of MassachusettsMedicalSchoolGeneral Research Environment:
The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) located in Worcester, is the Commonwealth’s first and only public medical school. Founded in 1962, University of Massachusetts Medical School has long been acknowledged for excellence in patient care, research, and training. UMMS has been consistently one of the top free-standing hospitals in the nation in amount of federal funding for research, career development, and training. The Worcester campus houses the University’s academic medical center, including the School of Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Graduate School of Nursing. In addition, the Worcester campus is the academic home of Commonwealth Medicine and Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories which provide service to the constituents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Research space currently totals 195,920 square feet. Directly attached to the Medical School is the extensive Souder Health Sciences Library, a 51,000 square foot facility with a working collection of over 130,000 volumes, nearly 1,500 print subscriptions, 1400 electronic subscriptions, as well as an increasing range of electronic information, including Medline, and networks to libraries around the world.
The UMass-Memorial Medical Center (UMMHC) is the flagship clinical site for the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA. UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts with 1600 physicians and 13,500 employees. Our comprehensive network of care includes a three-campus academic medical center, four member community hospitals, affiliated community hospitals, outpatient clinics, community-based physician practices, long-term care facilities, and home care, hospice, rehabilitation and mental health services.
As the tertiary care facility in Central and Western Massachusetts, UMMHC is an acute care hospital located on three campuses in Worcester: the Memorial Campus, University Campus, and Hahnemann Campus. UMMHC has over 700 adult and pediatric beds. It receives over 40,000 admissions per year, 400,000 clinic visits per year, over 132,000 emergency/trauma visits per year, and over 800,000 ambulatory department visits/year. In February 2006 over 100 intensive care unit beds and 40 operating rooms were added in a new 5 story tower adjoining the existing structure. This 70,000 sq ft area, in addition to a 19,000 sq ft Emergency Medical Services/dispatch area that controls all patient transfers within Worcester, MA.
Department of Emergency Medicine
The Academic and Clinical spaces of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine, both of which opened in February, 2006, are state of the art facilities.
Clinical: UMass Memorial Medical Center, Emergency Medicine in Worcester provides patients throughout Central Massachusetts with the most advanced emergency care possible. This care is built upon decades of experience as the region's leading academic medical center-based Emergency Department. UMass Memorial offers emergency care at two locations: The Duddie Massad Emergency and TraumaCenter on the University Campus and the Emergency Department on the Memorial Campus. Both locations offer a comfortable environment, featuring modern technology and highly experienced staff who care for all emergencies, from routine to the most complex. The MedicalCenter is the home to the region’s only TraumaCenter, supported by LifeFlight, New England’s first air ambulance service. UMMHC receives over 130,000 emergency/trauma visits per year.
Academic: The Academic space contains over 55 office spaces, over 2,000 sq ft research laboratory, one seminar room and two conference rooms configured for web-conferencing, and a resource library. Resident work spaces are adjacent to the administrative offices. There are 100 Dell computer terminals using Pentium IV technology that have been installed in the academic space, along with wi-fi capability throughout the academic area.
The Research Division of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UMMS, headed by Dr. Edwin Boudreaux, supports research activities in a diverse array of basic science and clinical topics, including myocardial injury, toxicology, antibiotic therapy of pneumonia, emergency ultrasound,substance abuse, and sepsis. The Research Division is supported by 7 full time staff and 11 field research assistants, and operates a call center in support of multicenter NIH-funded investigations. The Research Division serves as the data handling site for a U01 multicenter investigation, with research data being stored on dedicated 500GB servers. Monthly meetings are scheduled for the core department investigators to review ongoing protocols and to advise and support younger faculty as they propose new projects.
Computers: The hospital has ample computer capacity through its NT System network. This extensive network connects all University of Massachusetts Medical School departments and divisions via desktop personal computers. This system includes access to the internet via IE and electronic mail, which connects University of Massachusetts Medical School faculty and staff with collaborators throughout the world.
Office: Clerical operations are supported by a laboratory support technician with proficiency in Meditech, Microsoft Word and Excel. Clerical operations utilize 7 Dell computers (see above), fax machines and photocopiers. Additionally, secretarial and administrative support, a copy center, and educational media services are available to the faculty and fellows throughout University of Massachusetts Medical School, as are support services such as research administration and finance, purchasing, telecommunications, building maintenance, and systems support.
Scientific Environment:
The resources available to the PD/PI and his/her research team at UMass include everything needed to undertake and complete the proposed research project successfully. Our new state of the art Research Area includes not only a new clinical emergency facility but also the research administrative wing. This includes offices for all PI’s and research personnel which foster an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment.
These facilities, together with those described for………….. (see below), provide a scientific environment that is strongly supportive of the proposed research and, therefore, success of the project.
Prepared by UMMS Emergency Medicine Research, 2012