“Nantucket Cottage Hospital, its physicians and staff, provided both routine and emergency care for my family for the many years we have been visitors and residents of Nantucket. Every person who sets foot on this island has real or potential need for the care and services provided by this critical component of our island community. We all need to continue to support this hospital so it is available to everyone in their time of need. (more…)

“Since moving year-round to Nantucket 30 years ago, we’ve gotten the best care here out of anywhere we’ve lived. Not just once or twice but over and over again. The personal attention shown to us at Nantucket Cottage Hospital has been exceptional, especially when we’ve needed it most, with everyone there, to a person, being nice. We feel safe here on Nantucket and confident that we’ll get taken care of in short time. This is what you get here at our hospital.”

– Mort and Reva Schlesinger

Nancy Serafini was enjoying beautiful autumn day on Nantucket with a ride on the Madaket bike path in late September when she rounded a corner too quickly and fell off her bicycle.

“I picked myself up and looked down in horror at the back of my left calf,” she recalled. (more…)

Facing hernia surgery, Lionel Starr, 70, wanted a procedure that would allow him to quickly return to his job at a service station. He found it at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, where laparoscopic surgeon Richard Koehler, MD, used “keyhole” incisions to repair intestinal protrusions that had developed after a previous major operation. (more…)

For Wendi Murrell, life on Nantucket is about new beginnings. Visiting from London 16 years ago, she decided to stay. “I realized life here would be wonderful,” she says. At age 41, Wendi now has another new beginning—motherhood. But her pregnancy was deemed high risk, so when the baby’s heart showed distress during labor, the Nantucket Cottage Hospital obstetrics team sprang into action to perform an emergency C-section. (more…)