Affiliated Hospitals Center (Boston, Mass.)

A charitable corporation, known as the Affiliated Hospitals Center, Incorporated, was established in 1962 for the purpose of exploring the consolidation of the facilities of several of the Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals in the Longwood Avenue area of Boston, Mass. In 1967 a working agreement was put together by the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and the newly formed Boston Hospital for Women formally supporting a plan for union. Soon after, a centralization of power under an official joint venture agreement gave the presidents of the participating hospitals and the Affiliated Hospitals Center president authority to proceed with the creation of a new, combined medical center.

In 1975, after many setbacks including increasing costs, unavailable land, and permit approvals delayed by community protests, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert B. Brigham Hospital, and the Boston Hospital for Women formally and legally merged into the Affiliated Hospitals Center, Inc. Each hospital operated as a division of the Affiliated Hospitals Center, Inc. until the staffs, departments, and operations of the three divisions could be combined into a single unit operating with new by-laws. The fully unified institution was complete with the adoption of the new name "Brigham and Women's Hospital" in May of 1980. The name Affiliated Hospitals Center, Inc., ceased to exist legally on September 30, 1980.

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