Physician Assistant (PA) Services facilitates PA practice throughout Brigham and Women's healthcare system. We provide educational opportunities, policy implementation, privileging procedures, and regulatory information to all PAs.
- The first PA was hired at BWH in the early 1980's.
- The "PA Services" Department was created in 2001
- PAs are employed in 33 different areas within BWH
- Brigham and Women's Hospital is one of the largest employer of PAs on the East Coast
- Each year PAs at BWH are celebrated via our annual PA Appreciation event. This event includes a dinner & an awards ceremony where members of the BWH community come together to recognize and celebrate the enormous contributions Physician Assistants make every day.