When Frank Lahey, M.D., founded a group practice in 1923, his vision was unique: Every component of a patient's health care would be coordinated under one roof. Today, Lahey Clinic still offers a distinctive patient experience. Our group practice model is unique in its ability to provide highly coordinated and accessible services. More than 450 physicians and nearly 4,000 nurses, therapists and other support staff work together to provide compassionate care and superior patient outcomes. The Clinic's multidisciplinary approach allows patients access to preeminent physicians from virtually every medical specialty, who cooperate to develop personalized treatment plans for each patient. From leading-edge technology to pioneer medical research, Lahey Clinic combines the world-renowned specialty resources of Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington and Lahey Clinic Northshore in Peabody with top-quality primary care services at community-based practices in multiple towns throughout eastern Massachusetts. For the past eight years, U.S. News and & World Report has ranked Lahey Clinic in its annual "Best Hospitals" edition. The Heart and Vascular Center at Lahey Clinic is one of the largest in New England. Patients come long distances to benefit from techniques that Lahey surgeons have pioneered. The Neurovascular Institute is among the most advanced in the region for the treatment of strokes and brain aneurysms. The Liver Transplantation Team was the first in New England to perform adult living-donor transplant procedures. And surgeons are using minimally invasive laparoscopic methods, drastically reducing the recovery time following surgery for diseases such as bladder cancer. Lahey Clinic Medical Center (LCMC) in Burlington encompasses an ambulatory care center serving more than 3,000 patients each day and a 259-bed hospital. Lahey Clinic Northshore in Peabody serves more than 400 outpatients each day and includes a 10-bed hospital. Both feature 24-hour emergency departments, with a Level II Trauma Center based at LCMC. Lahey's community-based physicians have a wide range of special interests. Many of the community group practices feature adult internists, pediatricians, and family practice specialists. Lahey Clinic Medical Center is a teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. In addition, many of our physicians hold teaching assignments at Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. The Clinic maintains residency and fellowship programs for more than 100 new physicians in 19 specialties. As a research center, Lahey Clinic offer patients access to clinical trials of new therapies for diseases such as diabetes, prostate cancer, heart disease, and cataracts. Research programs at Lahey Clinic encompass more than 200 clinical trial protocols and participation in numerous national and international studies.