This hospital is a world-class academic medical center based in Boston, Massachusetts. It serves patients from New England, across the United States and from 120 countries around the world. A major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, it has a legacy of clinical excellence that continues to grow year after year. This network includes 1,200 doctors throughout New England working across 150 outpatient practices. An international leader in virtually every area of medicine, it has led numerous medical and scientific breakthroughs that have improved lives around the world. U.S. News & World Report ranks this hospital among the best hospitals in many specialty areas, including cancer, cardiology and heart surgery, diabetes and endocrine disorders, ear, nose and throat, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatric care, gynecology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheumatology, and urology.