Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s medical/surgical department received an Honorable Mention during The Schwartz Center’s 2014 Compassionate Caregiver Awards.

The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare is a patient-founded non-profit organization based in Boston that works to promote compassionate care so that patients and their caregivers relate to one another in a way that provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers and sustenance to the healing process.

“Your team exemplifies what compassionate care is all about by demonstrating extraordinary empathy for your patients and their families,” The Schwartz Center’s executive director Julie Rosen wrote in a letter to NCH. “Your nomination signifies that your team is dedicated to making compassion central to the healthcare experience and that you are part of a distinguished group of recognized caregivers within New England.”

Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s medical/surgical department is a small but dedicated team of clinicians and staff that cares for more than 600 inpatients every year and completes 700-plus surgeries annually. In the most recent fiscal year, the hospital’s inpatient volume increased by 37 percent.

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The next generation of advanced medical imaging equipment arrived at Nantucket Cottage Hospital today with the delivery of a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) unit from General Electric

The upgraded MRI unit will not only provide island residents with higher quality scans, but also faster service, and a number of new capabilities that will allow more patients to have diagnostic imaging completed right here on Nantucket, including gastro-intestinal imaging for conditions such as Crohn’s disease.

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