Carney Hospital
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Carney Hospital is a community teaching hospital, that has its beginnings in 1863 in South Boston. It was the first Catholic hospital in New England. Among its first patients were Civil War soldiers.
In 1892 a Carney Hospital team performed the first abdominal surgery in Boston. In 1920 the hospital introduced its Residency training programs. Current Internal Medicine Residency Program is affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine. In 1950 the first plastic hip operation in the United States was performed by Dr. W.R. MacAusland at Carney Hospital.
In 1953, the hospital moved from South Boston to its present location in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
In 1997 the hospital became a member of Caritas Christi Health Care, the second largest health care system in New England.
