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 Tuesday afternoon in the Founders Building.

This year’s individual award winners were Annette Adams, the NCH day charge nurse, and Kim Patten, the nurse manager for the NCH medical-surgical department. The team award went to Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy Associates of NCH, including: Kelly Facteau, manager, Pedro Amaral, Janice Dougherty, Jameson Heise, Julia Heise, Elizabeth Larrabee, Jaimee Lavin, Taneisha Lewis, Karin MacLellan, Olga, Malahova, Louis Sager. (more…)

Nantucket Cottage Hospital chef Wendy Turbini cooks delicious and nutritious meals for hospital staff and patients.

Wendy is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and has more than 40 years of cooking and restaurant experience. On Nantucket, she served as the executive chef at the Jared Coffin House for 10 years, and also worked as a chef at her husband’s butcher shop.

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“I’ve worn multiple hats during my 33 years at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, starting out as a critical care nurse then as manager in our Emergency Department and continuing in other nursing positions. In my job today as Perioperative Nurse Manager, I oversee what happens in our operating room including the preparation of patients and the surgical-related work of our doctors. (more…)

“I have been a physician assistant in the Emergency Department for over a decade. In that time, I have seen a large increase in the number of patients and a change in the island’s diverse medical needs. Our present facility makes it extremely difficult to meet those needs. It is imperative that our hospital expands and modernizes so that we not only can serve our growing population more expediently, but we can also treat special medical needs on the island.”

– Calvin Peterson, PA-C, Emergency Department