Centre Street at Allandale Street in front of the main entrance to Faulkner Hospital was shut and large parts of Jamaica Plain lost water after a Boston Water and Sewer Commision main burst around 5 p.m. Read more.
An annoyed resident files a 311 complaint about the roadwork at Centre and Allandale streets, which aside from being a key chokepoint during the commute, leads to the Faulkner's main entrance: Read more.
Starer in the Capitol: Probably not the mien she wore during counseling and gyn sessions back home.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Jacquelyn Starer, who once practiced at Jamaica Plain's Faulkner Hospital, to nine months in prison for not just storming into the Capitol back on Jan. 6, 2021 but for punching a DC cop in the head, cursing her and riling up other putschists in the Rotunda. Read more.
Starer captured by officer's body-worn camera in the process of hurling punch.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland, formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital, admitted today she rushed a line of cops in the Capitol and punched one as she screamed "fucking bitch!" at her on Jan. 6. Read more.
WFXT reports the new BTD regulations along Walter and Bussey streets, aimed at making spaces available for Arnold Arboretum visitors, are causing problems for workers at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and Faulkner Hospital.
A man with a gunshot wound to the foot was dropped off at the emergency room at Faulkner Hospital around 9 p.m. Police are investigating whether it's related to a more serious shooting around 4 p.m. on Homes Avenue in Dorchester.
Kelly Griffin got one of the letters.
Patients at Mass. General and Brigham and Women's and their community hospitals and physician groups as well as patients at Mass. Eye and Ear and Dana-Farber are eligible to share in an $18.4-million class-action settlement of a claim involving information the health-care providers' Web site may have shared with Facebook and Google - but they have to sign up by Dec. 15. Read more.
Faulkner Hospital has filed a new set of expansion plans that are largely similar to the ones it filed in 2019, but with one major change: One of the new in-patient floors would have a special ventilation system to better let the hospital isolate and treat patients during the current and future pandemics. Read more.
Boston Police report a man asked to leave the emergency room at Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain yesterday morning after he became "loud and aggressive towards the staff" responded by getting even louder and more aggressive and began spitting on nurses and security guards while yelling he had "a highly contagious illness." Read more.
Rendering shows new wing on left, expanded garage on right.
Brigham and Women's Hospital yesterday filed plans for its proposed $250-million, multi-year expansion of Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plan that, if approved, would mean a 46% increase in in-patient beds and way more parking than at present. Read more.
Faulkner Hospital in 1905.
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain has told the BPDA it will file plans for a 45% increase in the number of its in-patient medical-surgical beds, from the current 171 to 249, by building a new five-story wing. Read more.
Around 9 p.m., where Centre Street turns into VFW Parkway, Follow Cookie reports, adding the driver was able to crawl out.
State Police had to block a lane on Centre Street outbound just past Faulkner Hospital tonight when several boulders plummeted to the sidewalk and bike lane from the rock formation between Allandale Street and the Trinity Lutheran Church.
Workers from the state Department of Conservation and Recreation quickly joined troopers as they tried to figure out how to remove the rock slide and keep another one from happening on the ledge underneath Brownson Terrace, a small street normally notable only for the resident who lets all candidates perch their campaign signs on the outcropping above the parkway.
Daily Worcesteria reports federal bug experts no longer think the dreaded Asian Longhorned Beetles at Faulkner Hospital came from a nursery, but instead from "someone visiting the hospital" from the Worcester area. Who brought some infested wood.
Map shows the 1.5-mile radius around Faulkner Hospital in which crews will check for beetle infestation - and area in which residents, businesses now banned from removing wood to other locations.
Photo by Jenn Forman Orth.State officials are convening a press conference at 11 AM today to discuss the discovery of Asian Longhorn Beetles at the Faulkner Hospital grounds, just mere steps from the Arnold Arboretum.
Six trees showed signs of the telltale beetle bored holes in their trunks and USDA officials confirmed the sightings this weekend. It's unknown what measures are going to need to be taken, but due to the proximity, I worry for the Arboretum.
It's a pleasant sound when you're starting a fire, but not so good when you slip on some ice and break two bones in your leg. Mike Ball reports the only thing worse was the sound of the orthopedic surgeon and an aide snapping the bones back into place - at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Ball, who lives in Jamaica Plain, also explains why, when the ambulance came, he refused to go to the closer Faulkner Hospital - not that he needed to worry:
Immediately, the EMT shot back, "I wouldn't take my dog or cat to the Faulkner."
Did anyone else see (or hear) the thundersnow this morning? At about 6:50 this morning I was driving past the Faulkner Hospital and the whole sky lit up, and a second later came the boom. We got a second round a few minutes later by Jamaica Pond.
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