Listen to Nantucket Cottage Hospital President & CEO Dr. Margot Hartmann and public information officer Jason Graziadei sit down with “Inside the Whale” podcast host Doug Cote to discuss the new hospital, as well as a range of issues affecting Nantucket and health care on the island.

Nantucket Cottage Hospital this week welcomed Thomas M. Whelan, M.D., to the island’s primary care group practice.

Dr. Whelan, who specializes in urgent care and internal medicine, will be based at the hospital’s Sherburne Commons medical office working with Dr. Heidi Larson, and will continue seeing Dr. Larson’s patients following her departure in June. (more…)

Thanks to the members of the U.S. Coast Guard Northeast who visited the hospital today to discuss patient transports and gave us a tour of their MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and HC-144A Ocean Sentry fixed-wing aircraft atNantucket Memorial Airport.

Nantucket Cottage Hospital staff and U.S. Coast Guard personnel at Nantucket Memorial Airport today viewed one of Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod’s MH-60T Jayhawk helicopters. (more…)

Nantucket Cottage Hospital honored the recipients of the annual Partners in Excellence awards, which recognize superlative performance throughout the Partners HealthCare system, during a ceremony today in the Founders Building.

This year’s individual award winners were certified lab assistant Corliss Pace Brown, and Suzanne Sullivan, the clinical coordinator for the operating room. The team award went to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital operating room team, including: Jill Johnson, manager, Gail Bretschneider, Michele Cranston, Judy Divoll, Peter Duquette, Kate O’Riordan, Juliet Porter, Rosalind Rank, Suzanne Sullivan, Sarah Trottier, and Wayne Wilbur.   (more…)