More than a year has passed since Dana-Farber Cancer Institute dumped Mass General Brigham for a rival hospital chain, but the state’s biggest health care system is making a push now to say when it comes to cancer care, MGB’s still got it.
Beginning in 2028, Dana-Farber will end its long and nationally acclaimed adult oncology partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Instead, it will team up with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to open a new freestanding 300-bed, $1.68 billion cancer hospital in the Longwood Medical Area.
Dana-Farber’s announcement of the divorce in September 2023 stunned executives at the Brigham and rocked the hyper-competitive hospital industry. But now MGB is fighting back by creating what it calls the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, which the health system is trumpeting in an intensive marketing campaign.
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