Tufts Medical Center

Third-rail fire near Tufts Medical Center shuts Orange Line

By adamg - 6/28/23 - 12:43 pm

Update, 2:05 p.m. MBTA reports repairs made, service starting back up.

WFXT reports. The station filled with smoke from the fire.

For first time since the start of the pandemic, one Boston hospital has no Covid-19 patients in beds

By adamg - 5/2/23 - 3:42 pm

Tufts Medical Center reports today:

We reached a big milestone this morning! We have zero COVID inpatients at Tufts Medical Center for the first time since March 21, 2020.

Let's set the Covid wayback machine to March 21, 2020. Some Universal Hub headlines from that day: Read more.

Masshole parks in bus stop, bus pulls up ahead to let off passenger in wheelchair, Masshole can't wait, drives over wheelchair ramp, police say

By adamg - 1/6/23 - 3:05 pm

Silver Line bus with ramp driver just drove over

Photo of bent ramp by TPD.

Transit Police report no injuries yesterday when a bus driver extended his bus's wheelchair ramp to let a passenger off at Tufts Medical Center yesterday and an impatient SUV driver who had been parked at the bus stop couldn't wait and drove over it just as the passenger was about to get off. Read more.

Tufts Medical Center doctor fired after arrest in child-sex sting

By adamg - 11/5/22 - 10:56 pm

Tufts Daily reports Tufts Medical Center fired Dr. Sadeq Ali Quraishi, an anesthesiologist, yesterday, three days after Homeland Security agents arrested him as part of the same sting operation that snared a convicted sex offender from Lexington. Read more.

Alleged Chinatown rapist nabbed, police say

By adamg - 8/24/22 - 9:30 am

Transit Police report they arrested Steven Wade Coffey, 27, on Monday on charges he raped a woman at the Tufts Medical Center Orange Line stop on Aug. 4.

He's the second man arrested for a Chinatown rape this month.

Innocent, etc.

Police ID suspect for rape at Tufts T stop, now they have to find him

By adamg - 8/13/22 - 12:05 pm

Transit Police report they are looking for Steven Wade Coffey, 27, for raping a woman at the Tufts Medical Center Orange Line stop on Aug. 4. Read more.

Man sought for sexual attack at Tufts Orange Line station

By adamg - 8/8/22 - 9:59 pm

Transit Police have released a couple of photos of a man they say committed a sexual attack at the Tufts Medical Center Orange Line station around 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 4.

If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text tip to 873873.

Person jumps from Tremont Street garage in Chinatown, dies

By adamg - 8/3/22 - 9:11 pm

A person jumped from the top of the Tufts Medical Center garage at 274 Tremont St. in Chinatown around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, in an apparent suicide, Tufts told its employees. Read more.

Tufts Medical Center to stop treating pediatric cancer patients on July 1

By adamg - 4/1/22 - 9:06 pm

Tufts Medical Center President Michael Tarnoff announced today that, with the imminent closing of the hospital's in-patient services for children, it will stop intensive treatment of young cancer patients July 1, because many of the patients require overnight stays that the hospital will no longer have for them. Read more.

Parents, staffers protest planned shutdown of children's hospital at Tufts

By adamg - 2/7/22 - 12:55 pm

WHDH reports on the protest.

Tufts Medical Center announced last month it would shut the former Floating Hospital for Children and move patients over to its larger rival, Boston Children's Hospital.

The end of the Floating Hospital for Children: Tufts to shut pediatric unit, refer sick young patients to Children's Hospital

By adamg - 1/20/22 - 10:47 am

Tufts Medical Center announced today it's shutting down its 41 in-patient beds for children to create new space for "critically ill adults" - although it said it will keep its neonatal ICU and several primary-care programs for kids and teens open. Read more.

City moves to increase Covid-19 testing; one hospital says nearly 90% of Covid-19 patients in ICU are unvaccinated

By adamg - 1/5/22 - 3:54 pm

Tufts Medical Center Visit - 1-5-22

Mayor Wu said the city installed heating tents outside the Anna Cole Covid-19 testing site in Jackson Square today so that if people continue to have to wait in a long line for a test, at least they don't have to freeze. Read more.

Alleged station spurter nabbed

By adamg - 12/7/21 - 11:45 am

Transit Police report arresting the Dorchester man they say pleasured himself to completion in front of "numerous shocked and horrified passengers" at the Tufts Medical Center Orange Line stop on Sunday night. Read more.

Most subway pervs don't actually finish the act, but this guy did at the Tufts Orange Line stop, police say

By adamg - 12/6/21 - 3:08 pm

At least he wore a mask.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Transit Police report they are hunting a man who, as they euphemistically put it, "left behind his DNA" in "full view of numerous shocked and horrified passengers" on the outbound platform around 7:40 p.m. on Sunday.

If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text to 873873.

Cape men charged with threatening man with a gun in Theater District garage

By adamg - 11/8/21 - 9:40 am

One of the suspects in custody. Photo by Live Boston.

Boston Police report arresting two men from Hyannis on charges they used a gun loaded with ten bullets to threaten somebody in an altercation in the Tufts Medical Center garage on Tremont Street early Sunday. Read more.

Fire in a walk-in refrigerator doesn't escape at Tufts Medical Center

By adamg - 11/2/21 - 5:10 pm

The Boston Fire Department reports a fire in a walk-in refrigerator on the seventh floor of a Tufts Medical Center building on Harrison Avenue did not extend past the refrigerator walls this afternoon. Read more.

Man charged with attempt to drag a woman into an alley near Tufts Medical Center

By adamg - 8/16/21 - 9:41 pm

Boston Police report arresting Dante Wentz, 23, on charges he tried to kidnap a woman by dragging her into an alley off Washington Street at Tufts Medical Center early Thursday morning. Read more.

Police hunt man they say tried to drag a woman into an alley outside Tufts Medical Center early this morning

By adamg - 8/12/21 - 10:43 pm

Surveillance photo via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a man who attacked a woman on Washington Street outside Tufts Medical Center around 5:20 a.m. Read more.

A Boston ICU filled up yesterday and hospital staffers spent nine hours trying to find a bed somewhere else for a Covid-19 patient

By adamg - 12/24/20 - 3:06 pm

A couple of dispatches from the Covid-19 front lines.

Dr. Sharma Joseph is a critical-care physician and anesthesiologist at Tufts Medical Center. Yesterday, she reported: Read more.

Tufts sinks name of Floating Hospital; renames it Tufts Children's Hospital

By adamg - 9/21/20 - 1:56 pm

Boston Floating Hospital in 1916. From Harvard Medical School and its Clinical Opportunities.

The Floating Hospital for Children hasn't actually been on a boat since 1927, so Tufts Medical Center figured it's time to change the name - to Tufts Children's Hospital. Read more.

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