[5] It was founded by Massachusetts General Hospital in 1977 and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

[1] The program was renamed MGH Institute of Health Professions in 1980, admitting its first cohort of students.

In 1985, MGH Institute of Health Professions was re-constituted as a separate corporation from Massachusetts General Hospital, and in 2001 it moved into the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston where it now has more than 125,000 square feet of space in seven buildings.

[1] The MGH Institute offers a single undergraduate degree, an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

[2] Established in 2013, the institute's entry-level Doctor of Occupational Therapy program was the first of its kind in New England.