When it first opened it was located at 44 Chambers Street in the West End of Boston, near the Massachusetts General Hospital, but it outgrew its initial ten bed capacity and moved in 1908 to larger premises on South Huntington Avenue, where it remained until 1940.
[1] Isaac Schiff was made head of the department in 1988 and served in that post until 2015, being replaced by Jeffrey Ecker.
[2] Among the many achievements of the department are pioneering the routine use of the pap smear and the discovery of the cause of cancers in "DES daughters".
[3] In June 1995 the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology was created as a research arm of the department.
[5][3][6] The club continues to support the Vincent Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, staging an annual Spring Gala charity event and other fundraising activities benefiting the department, and organizing educational forums.