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Medical campus in Boston, Massachusetts
View over LMA facing Huntington Avenue
Harvard Medical School quadrangle and adjacent Longwood Medical and Academic Area buildings
The Longwood Medical and Academic Area
(also known as
Longwood Medical Area
,
LMA
, or simply
Longwood
) is a medical campus in
Boston
,
Massachusetts
, United States. Flanking Longwood Avenue, LMA is adjacent to the
Fenway?Kenmore
, Audubon Circle, and
Mission Hill
neighborhoods, as well as the town of
Brookline
.
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It is most strongly associated with
Harvard Medical School
, the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
, the
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
, and other medical facilities such as Harvard's teaching hospitals, but prominent non-Harvard institutions are located there as well. Long known as a global center of research, institutions in the Longwood Medical Area secured over $1.2 billion in NIH funds alone, in FY 2018 which exceeds funding received by 44 states.
Hospitals and research institutions
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Schools and colleges
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Transportation
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LMA is served by two subway stations at opposite ends of Longwood Avenue:
"
Longwood
" (on the
MBTA
Green Line's "D" branch) and
"
Longwood Medical Area
" (on the "E" branch).
Several public bus routes serve the area and commuter rail service is available at nearby
Ruggles Station
. The Longwood Collective, formerly known as MASCO (Medical Area and Scientific Community Organization
[2]
[3]
), offers shuttle buses (generally for affiliated personnel only) around the Longwood Medical Area and between Harvard's Cambridge Campus and the Medical Campus (M2). The M2 shuttle is free for passengers holding a Harvard ID.
Energy
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LMA receives electrical power, cooling, and heating from a
trigeneration
(CCHP) facility, the
Medical Area Total Energy Plant
(MATEP).
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Lodging
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- Inn at Longwood Medical
[6]
- Longwood Inn
[7]
- The Baldwin at Longwood Medical Centre
[8]
- Yawkey Family Inn
[9]
References
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External links
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