Nantucket Cottage Hospital

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About Nantucket Cottage Hospital:

Nantucket Cottage Hospital is proud to care for the Nantucket community, providing high-quality care to island residents, our seasonal community, and the many people who visit Nantucket each year. Our care extends well beyond traditional hospital services and includes the Urgent Access Walk-In Clinic, Primary Care, a growing range of Specialty Care clinics, Cottage Pharmacy, and other services designed to make high-quality health care easier to access on the island. As a member of Mass General Brigham, Nantucket Cottage Hospital combines the care and resources of a world-class health care system with the familiarity and convenience of a beloved community hospital.

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Hospital Thrift Shop
Hospital Thrift Shop: Celebrating 90 Years of Serving Our Community

Hospital Thrift Shop: Celebrating 90 Years of Serving Our Community

Volunteers and board members mark the Hospital Thrift Shop’s ninetieth year, from the first check it sent the hospital in 1929 — $603 — to a running total of $5,275,043. The shop moved five times before the board bought 17 India Street for $7,500; the house dates to about 1792, and caring for it — helped by a Community Preservation Committee grant that then-president Cathy Ward applied for in 2015 — remains one of the board’s main responsibilities. Behind the scenes, volunteers ready the workroom for a donation day, on which the whole operation depends.

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New Hospital Opening
The New Nantucket Cottage Hospital

The New Nantucket Cottage Hospital

Staff and leadership, among them President and CEO Dr. Margot Hartmann, look back on the project, from the board’s provisional approval at the end of 2011 through the work of assembling the expertise for a build thirty miles at sea — and on delivering safe care from what was effectively a construction site the whole time. They describe what the new building makes possible: equipment that allows a diagnosis inside the first thirty to sixty minutes, so staff can judge quickly whether a patient is better served off-island, in a space meant to feel nurturing rather than clinical.

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Nantucket Cottage Hospital – New Building Opening Day

Nantucket Cottage Hospital – New Building Opening Day

February 20, 2019: the last patient in the old Nantucket Cottage Hospital is thanked and the old building declared closed, the first patient is welcomed into the new one, and the ribbon is cut. President and CEO Dr. Margot Hartmann thanks the staff who kept caring for patients throughout the transition, the board of trustees and partners at Mass General, and the community whose donations built the hospital; capital campaign chairman Bruce Percelay speaks before longtime physicians Dr. Tim Lepore and Dr. Diane Pearl and the board’s vice chair join the ribbon-cutting.

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Women & Wellness
Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s Women and Wellness - 2026

Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s Women and Wellness - 2026

Watch Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s annual Women and Wellness forum, featuring experts from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. They share important information about intermittant fasting, longevity, and other important wellness topics.

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