Saturday’s Swim Across America – Nantucket open water swim at Jetties Beach raised over $310,000 for on-island cancer care services at Nantucket Cottage Hospital and Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket!

This inspirational community event included 287 children and adults swimming for the cause, as well as 65 volunteers on land and sea helping to to make it a success.  (more…)

The Boston Pops on Nantucket is not only the largest event of its kind on the island, it might also be the most logistically challenging.

Throwing a choreographed beach party with 7,000 guests, hosting a world-class orchestra, and providing food and drink for everyone is a feat of controlled chaos that happens every August on Jetties Beach.

Brenda Garnett, Mary Lyon and Angie Wiggins are three big reasons why the Boston Pops on Nantucket event team has been so successful in pulling it off year after year. (more…)

Nantucket Cottage Hospital held its 104^th Annual Meeting this morning and welcomed new members to its Board of Trustees and Advisory Council, thanked outgoing members for their service, and honored its volunteers and leaders.

Trustee Kevin Hickey was elected as the Board’s new chairman, taking the reins from outgoing chairman Michael A. F. Roberts, and Trustee Jack Burke was elected vice chairman. In addition two new members, Cathy Ward and Robert L. Reynolds, were elected to the Board.

In recognition of their longtime service to Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Stephen Anderson and Margaretta Andrews were elected as Honorary Trustees, joining Charles Balas in that role on the Board. (more…)

He did it! Grant Wentworth completed a solo swim from Cape Cod to Nantucket in 12 hours, 54 seconds. In the process, Grant raised over $150,000 for Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s cancer care program through the Swim Across America charitable organization.

After setting out from Cape Cod at 4:25 a.m., Grant arrived on Nantucket just over 12 hours later, coming ashore at Great Point to a crowd of family, friends, and well-wishers.  (more…)

Nantucket Cottage Hospital was lucky to count Mrs. Constance C. Larsen among its many friends and supporters.

Known to all simply as “Bonnee,” she spent her summers on the island, and used her considerable energy and talent to benefit NCH, volunteering again and again for the hospital right up until her passing on March 27, 2015. (more…)