We’re celebrating our nurses as the 2016 National Nurses Week continues! Watch this video of a few Nantucket Cottage Hospital nurses as they describe why they got into nursing and what they love about their profession.

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…)

This week marks National Patient Access Week!

The mission of the patient access team at Nantucket Cottage Hospital is to create an exceptional first impression at the start of the patient experience. These professionals genuinely care for our patients and provide a warm, comforting and communicative environment. They are dedicated to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital values of Excellence, Respect, Integrity, Quality, Confidentiality, Communication, Safety, and Teamwork. (more…)