Grateful Patients Honors Harold Solomon, MD
Medical intensive care unit named in his honor
Date: 2/22/2010
BIDMC Contact: Jerry Berger
Phone: 617-667-7308
Email: jberger@bidmc.harvard.edu
BOSTON – To Carol F. and Howard M. Anderson, Harold Solomon, MD, is more than the family doctor. And that’s why they decided to honor their friend by naming a busy Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center intensive care unit in his honor.
“I am the third or fourth generation of the Friedman and Holtz families to be cared for by Beth Israel Hospital and now by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,” says Carol Anderson, a member of the BIDMC Board of Directors. “Howard and I are blessed, at this point in our lives, to be able to give something back to the medical center.
“It is especially appropriate for that to be done in a way that honors Dr. Harold Solomon, our friend, our doctor, a trustee of the medical center, and one of the most caring people we know. Harold absolutely epitomizes all that a primary care physician should be – a really smart, highly trained and compassionate healer and advocate for his patients.”
As part of the $1 million unrestricted gift, a plaque recognizing the Dr. Harold S. Solomon Medical Intensive Care Unit was placed outside the ICU on the 7th floor of BIDMC’s West Clinical Center.
“This is about the BIDMC community and its many generous people,” says Solomon, a primary care physician also affiliated with MDVIP. “I’m honored by the gesture – and their generosity.”
William Taylor, MD, a physician in BIDMC’s Healthcare Associates practice who cares for Carol Anderson’s mother, was moved by the recognition afforded to a primary care physician,
“The primary care community will take particular pleasure in seeing an intensive care unit named in honor of one of their own,” says Taylor. This is an acknowledgment of the teamwork and coordination we aspire to provide no matter where in the medical center our patients must go to receive the care they require.”
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a patient care, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and consistently ranks among the top four in National Institutes of Health funding among independent hospitals nationwide. BIDMC is clinically affiliated with the Joslin Diabetes Center and is a research partner of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. BIDMC is the official hospital of the Boston Red Sox. For more information, visit www.bidmc.org .
