Critics pack hearing, air concerns about Quincy hospital closure

allnurses Guide · Dec 10, 2014

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Quincy says goodbye to hospital 'up the hill'
Fred Donahue was born in Quincy Hospital in 1955 and his mother in 1927. His wife, Cynthia, was born there, as was her mother and her three sisters.
He had his tonsils removed there when he was 5 ("It was like a factory, there must have been 40 kids in one giant room''). As his family grew, Donahue and his wife took their children there for stitches, pneumonia, and myriad urgent-care boo-boos. And, years later, he entered a 12-step program at the hospital and he has been sober for 27 years.
Quincy Hospital treated his father's stomach cancer and, he says, "saved my mother's life" when her intestines became twisted.
Like many Quincy residents over the decades, the extended Donahue family "went up the hill" to the 125-year-old hospital, from cradle to grave...
... Before it was Hospital Hill, it was Cranch Hill: Richard Cranch, who married Abigail Adams's sister, owned a farm on the site. Before that, it was President's Hill: John Adams owned the land....
... The original hospital benefactors were neighbors, who donated three acres and the first building, in 1890. "It began as a private cottage hospital with 25 beds," says Quincy's city historian Tom Galvin. "It was originally built to help quarry workers suffering from lung disease."...
... William Carey, 52, still gets his care at the hospital, including knee and colon-cancer surgeries. "This hospital has always been very good to me," says Carey, who works for Verizon. "The nurses are fantastic. It's a shame."...
... According to Steward, there will still be 24-hour emergency room access and an urgent-care center in the city, though the location has not been determined....
... Mary Foley Johnson, 78, Fred Donahue's mother-in-law, is upset about it. "I think it's sad and worrisome that Quincy will not have a hospital," says Johnson, who was born there and gave birth to three of her four children there. "I wouldn't want to try to get through Quincy at rush hour to get to South Shore or any other hospital, with traffic as bad as it is. I can't imagine going to one of those places if you were having a heart attack."...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/massachusetts/2014/11/29/closing-quincy-medical-center/bNO2z9Lb3lguoJYZUTOfpO/story.html

condor12 · Dec 18, 2014

Certainly a sign of the times with more control and restrictions on care that many here have little knowledge of. Meaning that the health care crisis is very evident in many classifications and details of financial abuse is not well documented for public display. Greedy profiteers will have to find other areas to collect from. People will want to blame Obama Care but the reality is that its about time these runaway costs get addressed.

KelRN215, BSN, RN · Dec 26, 2014

Quincy Medical Center is closing tonight at 11:59 PM: Quincy Medical Center closes its doors at midnight - Business - The Boston Globe

The ER is staying open and, as I understand it, patients who present to the ER and warrant admission will be admitted to Carney Hospital.