It is also the principal teaching hospital of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and home to 66 residency and fellowship training programs.

[5] Two years later Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals president Jerome Preston and Boston University president Harold C. Case announced a merger of Boston University Medical Center and the creation of a new board of trustees to oversee the institution with the stated purpose "to provide and maintain better health in contemporary society."

Due in large part to these issues Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was a major proponent of a merger setting a July 1 deadline for such a deal.

[9] From 2015 through 2018, BMC undertook a campus redesign project to update clinical spaces, improve efficiencies, and better serve patients.

This project included the closure of the Newton Pavilion and the relocation of the services previously in the building to other parts of the hospital campus.