Didn’t a 2005 Task Force report recommend that the Inpatient Unit not be closed?
The 2005 final report of the Task Force on Medical Care for the MIT Community, which was chaired by Paul L. Joskow, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management, featured 40 recommendations that, taken as a whole, argued for MIT Medical to remain a first-rate health-care facility. The report did, in fact, recommend the continuation of overnight hours for the Inpatient Unit. However, it also recommended that the cost to run the 18-bed facility, which at that time had a 25 percent occupancy rate, should be partially covered by finding new, creative uses of the space. MIT Medical has attempted to follow that recommendation. The Department has investigated the viability of working with other hospitals interested in transferring patients to MIT’s facility; with hospitals interested in using the space for drug trials; with post-operative patients wanting a place for care, such as those who have undergone plastic surgery; and with hospitals interested in conducting sl
