Beverly Hospital

Description

Beverly Hospital is a 227bed Massachusetts medical center and acute care facility that serves the healthcare needs of residents of Beverly and its surrounding communities The hospital provides a comprehensive range of outpatient services such as cardiology oncology radiology geriatrics womens health rehabilitation and cardiopulmonary services Inpatient care is available in the areas of critical care general medicine surgery obstetrics newborn special care pediatrics and psychiatry Twentyfour hour emergency services are easily accessible as well In 2006 Beverly Hospital was awarded Level III Trauma Center designation Beverly Hospital has been named one of the nations quot100 Top Hospitalsquot by Thomson

History

The Best Care Possible Volume Chronicles the 117Year History of Beverly Hospital and Northeast Health System

In the very beginning 1888 there was one enterprising and dedicated doctor Samuel W Torrey MD and six beds for women only located on the second floor of 55 Cabot Street Today Beverly Hospital has been awarded among the topranked community hospitals in the country caring for more than 150000 patients annually within the evergrowing Northeast Health System NHS which also provides expansive behavioral health and longterm care ranging from the lower Merrimack Valley to Cape Ann down to Lynn and Boston

Dr Sam Torrey would not believe his eyes

Its all part of the amazing story that is Beverly Hospital and its parent company Northeast Health System chronicled in authorhistorian Gary Larrabees new book The Best Care Possible From Beverly Hospital to Northeast Health System Commonwealth Editions 265 pages

A concept nurtured and given birth by NHS Chairman of the Board Henry Ramini MD fully supported by NHS President Stephen Laverty the NHS Board of Trustees and the Evelyn Lilly Lutz Foundation The Best Care Possible tells a fascinating human story of the people from near and far who have given Beverly Hospital and NHS its lofty standing in the extraordinary Greater Boston medical community

Boasting 292 images more than half in color the volume relates

How the hospitals leadership remained in large part in two families from
its birth in 1888 until the 1970s The TorreyDr Peer JohnsonDr Richard
Alt clan on the medical side and the father son Ayer team Fred and Neil
on the administrativefundraising side

How Robert Fannings tenure as the hospitals first CEO led to an
unprecedented era of growth and diversification in the 1980s and 1990s and

How the dedication and loyalty of medical staff administration nursing
staff employees patients volunteers and contributors from all over the
North Shore and beyond have played vital roles in the institutions 117year
history of proving The Best Care Possible

The book is on sale for 40 in the Addison Gilbert and Beverly Hospital Gift Shops