DiversityToday 2007 -- Employer Profiles






Boston Medical Center is a private, not-for-profit 581-licensed bed, academic medical center located in Boston’s historic South End.  It provides a full spectrum of pediatric and adult care services, from primary to family medicine to advanced care.  BMC has the largest 24 hour Level I trauma center in Boston.

In 2006, Boston Medical Center proudly opened the Moakley Building, a best-in-class centralized cancer and ambulatory care facility located in the heart of the campus.

Unwavering in its commitment to serve the community, Boston Medical Center is dedicated to providing accessible care and improving the quality of life in Boston.  Every day, our committed physicians and nurses provide exceptional care without exception.

Boston Medical Center values the diversity of its employees and patients.  BMC is committed to honoring their ethnic, religious and cultural differences. With one of the largest Interpreter Services departments in New England, Boston Medical Center interpreters assisted in more than 162,000 patient interactions last year.

Research is an important component in health care and Boston Medical Center is the principal teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine.  Every BMC member of the medical and dental staff holds an academic appointment at the Boston University School of Medicine of the Goldman School of Dental Medicine. 

Demonstrating its focus on urban health, Boston Medical Center is a partner of the Boston HealthNet – a network of 15 community health centers. Boston HealthNet is an integrated health care delivery system, whose partners provide outreach, prevention primary care, specialty care and dental services at sites located throughout Boston’s neighborhood and Quincy.


The Boston Business Journal is Greater Boston’s premier business newspaper, providing breaking news and in depth coverage of the region’s business community.  The BBJ provides comprehensive coverage of business news within a variety of industry segments, including Banking/Finance, Commercial Real Estate, Legal Services, Technology, Healthcare/Sciences, Education and Retail.  Each weekly issue includes in depth articles, corporate profiles and executive spotlights, as well as our exclusive Top 25 Lists.  Special supplements are published throughout the year including Best Places to Work, Champions in Health Care, 40 Under 40, Fastest Growing Private and Public Companies, CEO’s, and The Philanthropy Almanac. Once a year, the Top 25 Lists are compiled into the annual Book of Lists, which serves as a valuable research guide to Greater Boston’s business community.  The Boston Business Journal provides additional business news accessible through its website, bostonbusinessjournal.com to complement its weekly newspaper.  Daily email alerts provide headlines of the day to help businesses stay connected with the region’s business news.

The Boston Business Journal is a wholly owned subsidiary of American City Business Journals.  ACBJ is the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, serving 41 of the country’s most vibrant markets.  Approximately 3.2 million readers depend on our newspapers for exclusive, in-depth coverage of their business communities.


The Schools of The Boston Consortium believe that many of the business challenges faced by higher education and industry alike can be solved by the recruitment, retention and development of outstanding staff. Our member institutions offer dynamic and diverse career options, and understand that professional fulfillment involves personal growth and engaging challenges. As members of The Boston Consortium, our schools’ collaboration involves more than sharing of information; it involves creating trustful relationships across and between schools. The Consortium provides resources to guide and support this mutual exploration of opportunity.

Your future is limited only by your aspirations. The Schools of The Boston Consortium assist higher education professionals as they envision the future, initiate dialogue, share knowledge, make connections and build collaborative partnerships that enable them to realize their goals and the goals of their organizations.

Most of all, The Boston Consortium is inclusive: Thirteen institutions. One place for all.


Children's Hospital Boston is a 347-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age.

Voted one of the best places to work in Boston by the Boston Business Journal, our pediatric hospital takes pride in being a place to work that encourages growth, teamwork, communication, recognition of achievement, and positive co-worker/supervisor relationships.

We also offer our team of employees excellent benefits with numerous perks such as work/family benefits, tuition assistance, subsidized transportation and more.

Children's Hospital Boston is the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where most of our pediatricians physicians hold faculty appointments. In addition, Children's is home to the world's largest pediatric research facility, with a staff of 1,200 driven scientists and pediatric research staff. Our current initiatives have attracted a record $120 million in funding, including more federal funding than is awarded to any other pediatric facility.

It is also the Hospital's mission to enhance the health and wellbeing of the children and families in our local community. CHB is unique for many reasons--its patients and their families, its staff, its research, teaching, community support, and its commitment to providing the highest quality of child health care possible. Children's mission as a pediatric teaching hospital also extends to the teaching and training of nurses, social workers and other healthcare professionals.


MGH Institute of Health Professions is an affiliate of the Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the Partners HealthCare System. The MGH Institute is an interdisciplinary graduate school that prepares skilled health care specialists in Clinical investigation, Medical Imaging, Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Speech-Language Pathology.

Integrating classroom learning with research and clinical experience, the MGH Institute grants graduate degrees, awards certificates of advanced study, and offers continuing education to practicing professionals, as well as baccalaureate-educated individuals entering health care from another field. An average of 800 students are taught by a faculty of 80, more than half of whom are practicing clinicians.

The Institute educates health care professionals to become leaders in their disciplines. The mission includes fostering an interdisciplinary and diverse educational community by:

Integrating academic and clinical curricula

Expanding and refining the scientific basis for health care through teaching, research and scholarship

Developing innovative educational approaches

Contributing to new models of practice to foster effective, affordable and ethical health care.

The MGH Institute is located in the Catherine Filene Shouse Building in the historic Charlestown Navy Yard. Originally built as the joiner's shop in 1866, the Shouse Building was purchased by the Institute and underwent a complete interior renovation in 2001. The building also houses The Children's Quarters, which offers kindergarten and preschool daycare to staff and students of the Institute, as well as to the Charlestown community. The Institute is convenient to points throughout the Boston area.

For more information, please visit: www.mghihp.edu

Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 37 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.5 trillion.

Merrill Lynch has two core businesses – Global Private Client and Global Markets & Investment Banking Group offering a range of services for private clients, small businesses, and institutions and c
As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.

Merrill Lynch owns just under half of BlackRock, one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies with approximately $1 trillion in assets under management.

Tufts Health Plan is a local company with about 650,000 members and 1,600 employees, known for top quality health insurance coverage, as demonstrated by leading scores in national rankings. For more than 25 years, Tufts Health Plan employees with a broad range of skills have found challenging and rewarding careers with the company.

A few facts:  headquarters are in Watertown (MA) on Mt. Auburn Street not far from Harvard Square; facility is a newly-renovated historic art deco setting, including an inviting atrium, top-notch cafeteria, adjacent covered parking, easy access to public transportation, onsite fitness center, ATM, dry cleaning and more.

Benefits include an array of health coverage choices, generous retirement plan, supplemental insurances, tuition reimbursement, wellness programs, and a variety of lifestyle discounts for employees, their spouses/partners and families.

Tufts Health Plan President and CEO James Roosevelt, Jr., often says that the company’s employees live up to its motto: “No one does more to keep you healthy.”  Members’ stories online at www.tuftshealthplan.com illustrate how nurse case managers, customer service staff, and claims specialists, as well as professionals with a variety of skills in IT, finance, sales and other areas, all contribute to giving members the best possible experience.

Tufts Health Plan supports the communities it serves through its philanthropy and employee volunteers programs.  And Tufts Health Plan values the diversity of its employees who reflect its membership.

To learn more about exciting job opportunities, visit the Careers link at www.tuftshealthplan.com.