Hometown Hospital Opening Soon

Our brand new hospital will open soon. It’s spacious, handsome, filled with new technology and special Nantucket touches to make us feel at home.

The entrance to the new Nantucket Cottage Hospital. The wood paneling is a visual reminder of lightship baskets, and the Compass Rose is on the floor.

Margot Hartmann. M.D., President and CEO of the new Nantucket Cottage
Hospital. The driving force that got the very much needed facility built.

State of the art technology

Nantucket art at the entrance to a patient’s room

A room for x-rays? Or scans? My sister is a nurse, but medical
terminology boggles my mind.

I have no idea what’s behind this door. Maybe my son-in-law David knows.

These benches in a waiting area were made from the trees that grew on
the building site and had to be cut down for the building of the
hospital. Using what you have; keeping in touch with the island. A
wonderful island touch.

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