Take this for what it’s worth. I’m a RN at a different institution so don’t know the inside scoop but tufts is still a good bet for residency. They’d be more likely to merge then close.

I don’t know anything about Tufts Medical Center financial situation but they are tied to Tufts University, specifically the School of Medicine. It’s a teaching hospital so i imagine they pull in enough grants and what not along with the university funding to keep it afloat.

Its dependent on specialty but generally a good place to work. Easy to get to via the T. Great food nearby. Cafeteria is booty. Fewer bathrooms than necessary.

I wouldnt worry about the financial situation. Its undergoing a transition re: childrens hospital but unless you’re doing peds its not going to affect you.

Tufts is not in a good place financially but I don't necessarily think they're in danger of closing down within the next few years.

All of the hospitals in the city are having financial struggles, along with hospitals nationwide. Boston has too many academic medical centers for the size of the population, which hurt Tufts children’s (Floating Hospital) - they were competing with Boston Children’s and MGH. Tufts will be fine for residency. They are somewhat protected as the teaching hospital for Tufts Medical School - if the hospital closes, it would be tough for the med school to continue, so they are too big to fail, so to speak.

you won't be getting paid enough to live alone - keep this in mind. If you're ok living with roomates for your residency, tufts and boston in general is a good place to be for it. If you need/or feel you are entitled to live alone, you're going to be using up your savings or someone is going to have to help you with living expenses.

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If your residency has contact with pediatrics -I would pay attention to their plan to get you full training now that floating hospital closed.

obviously it depends on other financial obligations; but yes, 2 people living in a 1/2 bedroom will be ok.

The shutdown of the floating hospital had nothing to do with supply and demand. People travel from all over the world for treatment in Boston.

They closed the floating hospital because it wasn’t profitable. The floating hospital was heavily utilized by low income minorities, more so than other local children’s hospitals, and they didn’t want to shoulder that cost anymore. Aside from protecting their bottom line there was also a sentiment of spite towards the other children’s hospitals that rejected low income patients and sent them to Tufts. This was all within the hospital admin and not the way patient facing staff felt.

You’ll be fine with that salary and should be able to rent a one bedroom. Rents are too damn high, but you won’t need roommates if that’s your combined salary. Tufts is a fine place to do residency Unless you are focusing on pediatric care

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Depends on debt and such, but assuming you get to keep everything aside from taxes and retirement savings you'll be able to find something. But you won't be living in luxury towers in downtown Boston on that. You'll be looking for places in Jamaica Plain or Malden on the orange line.