Editing Salem, Massachusetts (section)

====Salem Hospital====
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[[Salem Hospital (Massachusetts)|Salem Hospital]], formerly North Shore Medical Center, is located in Salem and is the second largest community hospital system in Massachusetts.{{Update inline|date=September 2024}} It offers comprehensive medical and surgical services and includes emergency/trauma departments, advanced cardiac surgery, and a birthplace. It includes Salem Hospital's main campus as well as outpatient care and urgent care. Salem Hospital's medical staff includes nearly 600 affiliated physicians representing primary care, family practice and 50 additional sub-specialties.{{Update inline|date=September 2024}}

The hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital, which has 395 beds. The hospital had 19,467 admissions in the latest year for which data are available. It performed 4,409 annual inpatient and 7,955 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency department had 90,149 visits in 2012. The [[helipad]] at Salem Hospital is a [[helicopter]] transportation hub, with multiple daily flights to hospitals all over [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salem.com/Pages/SalemMA_ConCommMin/2010Minutes/S02A9C6E1|title=City of Salem, MA – Approved Minutes, May 13, 2010|author=City of Salem, MA|work=salem.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626081430/http://www.salem.com/Pages/SalemMA_ConCommMin/2010Minutes/S02A9C6E1|archive-date=June 26, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salem.com/Pages/SalemMA_ConCommMin/2009Minutes/S0241A3AE|title=City of Salem, MA – Approved Minutes, February 12, 2009|author=City of Salem, MA|work=salem.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626063318/http://www.salem.com/Pages/SalemMA_ConCommMin/2009Minutes/S0241A3AE|archive-date=June 26, 2014}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=September 2024}}

Captain [[John Bertram (Massachusetts businessman)|John Bertram]] (1796–1882) lived in Salem and is the founder of Salem Hospital. In 1873, Captain John Bertram gave a gift of $25,000 in cash, plus a brick mansion on Charter Street to create Salem Hospital. From the original building on Charter Street, Salem Hospital moved to the current location on Highland Avenue in 1917. After John Bertram died in March 1882, his widow donated [[Chestnut Street District#John Bertram Mansion|their home]], a mansion built in the [[Italianate architecture|High Style Italianate]] with brick and [[brownstone]] for materials at 370 Essex Street,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.noblenet.org/salem/home/history/| title=History – Salem Public Library| work=Salem Public Library| access-date=2018-12-24| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403181111/http://www.noblenet.org/salem/home/history/| archive-date=2018-04-03}}</ref> and this became the Salem Public Library.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://jbh.bertramhouse.org/about-us/history| title=Who was John Bertram| author=Brian Duke| work=bertramhouse.org| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708040930/http://jbh.bertramhouse.org/about-us/history| archive-date=2014-07-08}}</ref> In addition, the [[Salem Common Historic District (Salem, Massachusetts)#John Bertram House|John Bertram House]] is now a home for the elderly.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tolles |first1=Bryant Franklin Jr. |last2=Tolles |first2=Carolyn K. |title=Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide |date=2004 |orig-date=1983 |location=Lebanon, New Hampshire |publisher=University Press of New England |isbn=978-1-58465-385-1 |page=16}}</ref>