What We Fund

Helicopters now land on the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center campus a short distance away, which makes an ambulance transfer — with its inherent risks — necessary. 

Lahey recently became the only Level I trauma center north of Boston, which means we have surgeons and specialists available around the clock to respond to the most serious emergencies. Because of this new status, we anticipate a 55 percent increase in the number of seriously injured patients arriving by helicopter. 

Trauma patients are not the only ones who will benefit from the seamless transition into the Emergency Center. Each week, critically ill patients who have had strokes, heart attacks or other life-threatening events also arrive by air. They are often dependent upon medical devices like ventilators and infusion pumps, so eliminating transfers into and out of an ambulance will be safer for them, too.

The Global Outreach Program specifically helps provide travel expenses for our staff who volunteer their time and expertise to treat people in need of medical care, both in the U.S. and in developing countries. Click here to learn more.

To help support the generous efforts of our doctors, nurses, and other staff members, we welcome your donation to the Global Outreach Program at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. For more information, contact Patti Newton, 781.744.3928.

The quality of our care is apparent in many ways. Our Cerebrovascular Disease Center is among the most advanced in the region for the treatment of strokes and brain aneurysms. Our liver transplantation team was the first in New England to perform adult living-donor transplant procedures. Our surgeons are using minimally invasive methods, including robotic procedures.

The Landsman Heart & Vascular Center at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is one of the largest in the region. As  partners with local hospitals, Lahey physicians are providing New England communities with expertise not available everywhere.  They are bringing advanced cardiology services such as angioplasty and electrophysiology to these communities, and helping to train other physicians.

As a research center, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center gives patients access to clinical trials of new treatments for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and cataracts. Research programs at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center include hundreds of clinical trial protocols and participation in numerous national and international studies.

Among the latest technology we offer are two daVinci surgical robots. Guided by our expert surgeons, these robotic arms can perform surgery with more precision and more capabilities than ever before. We use the robots in minimally invasive surgery for gynecology, urology, colorectal, thoracic, head and neck, and general surgery procedures.

Lahey offers an innovative procedure called bronchial thermoplasty. This is successful in treating asthma symptoms in certain patients.

For patients with back pain, computerized navigation helps our surgeons perform complex spine surgery with better accuracy than ever before.

Lahey is the first hospital in New England to offer enrollment in advanced testing to help determine whether a spot found on a patient’s lung is benign or malignant, based on the patient’s genes. This can help eliminate risks that come with biopsies and increase the validity of test results.

These are just a few examples of the amazing technology available to you at Lahey — made possible in large part with the support of our generous donors.

The expanded facility features comfortable waiting areas, private rooms, and an imaging suite for CT scans and X-rays — all this and more so that we can quickly and expertly diagnose and treat patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries.

Generous gifts from our community of donors and supporters — grateful patients, engaged civic leaders, committed business partners, and dedicated Lahey providers and staff — have made possible an emergency department  that will serve our communities now and far into the future.

Continued support from our community is vital to this emergency department project. Your gift helps us provide even better patient care in a modern and sophisticated facility. We are prepared to handle the most urgent critically ill or injured patients.

If you would like to support our new Joseph C. Corkery, MD, Emergency Center, please consider making a donation now. For more information on naming opportunities within the new facility, please contact our Philanthropy Department at 781.744.3333 or [email protected].