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Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates is a nonprofit medical group that provides health care services to more than 300,000 adults and pediatric patients in over 15 offices throughout eastern Massachusetts. It has a staff of nearly 400 physicians, nurses and health care professionals. The hospital offers cardiology, audiology, behavioral health, family medicine, hand surgery, neurology, podiatry, palliative care and vulvovaginal services. Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates also specializes in the areas of optometry, internal medicine, infectious diseases and dermatology services. It operates on-site laboratories and pharmacies. In addition, the hospital provides radiology, ultrasound, mammography, weight management, bone density and endoscopy services. Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates is affiliated with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Beverly Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Emerson Hospital. It maintains a location in Burlington, Mass.

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates was formed by merger of the Harvard Community Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim. It offers various services, such as andrology, bone density, central registration, contact lens, endoscopy, mammography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, nutrition and pharmacy. It also offers cosmetic and developmental consultation services, and has an educational assessment center and laboratory. Its specialty care offers more than 35 medical and surgical specialties to meet health care needs. Its care for women facility offers complete health services for every stage of a woman's life, including obstetrics and gynecology, family planning and reproductive endocrinology, and menopause management and hormone replacement therapies. It offers urgent care appointments during the evenings and weekends. Its nurses are available 24 hours a day to help with urgent medical questions and provide clinical advice over the phone. Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates is located in Cambridge, Mass., and has other locations in Boston, Burlington, Braintree, Concord and Chelmsford, Mass.