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As part of BWH’s BluePrint celebration, BWH Bulletin features this special section to explore the past, present and future of the institution. Throughout 2013, you’ll find a new fun fact, story, photo or tradition in each issue of Bulletin. You can also find information about BluePrint, including a tool kit, milestones and events, at BWHPikeNotes.org/BluePrint. Questions? Email BWHBluePrint@partners.org.
Did you know that BWH has more than 3,500 researchers working to unlock the secrets of disease? How about the fact that the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital, one of BWH’s four founding institutions, was the first to establish a hospital-based occupational therapy department? Take the BWH BluePrint Tour to find out more about the departments, displays and buildings that hundreds of BWH employees, patients and visitors pass by or through every day.
You may have noticed the BluePrint signs lining the second floor of the hospital along the Richard Nesson Pike. Each sign indicates a stop on the new BWH BluePrint tour, a self-guided audio tour designed to illuminate BWH’s history of transforming the future.
Users can follow the tour to the Nobel Prize exhibit of the late distinguished surgeon and scientist Joseph E. Murray, MD, to learn more about the first human organ transplant, or to the Thorn Research Building to find out more about BWH’s drive to cure chronic diseases. You can even make your way to the Sharf Admitting Center, where an exhibit of fashion design sketches from the 1960s is temporarily housed for all to enjoy before moving to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
Patients, visitors and employees alike can take the tour on a smart phone by entering the URL provided at each stop or scanning the QR code listed on any one of the tour signs. The tour can be started from any stop and taken in any order. Mobile tour devices are also available to sign out and borrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays at the following locations:
• 15, 45 and 75 Francis St. information desks
• The Shop on the Pike
• Shapiro Cardiovascular Center lobby
Whether you are new to the hospital or have been walking the Pike for years, the BWH BluePrint Tour has something everyone can learn from.
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