St. Luke's Hospital (New Bedford, Massachusetts)

St. Luke's Hospital
Geography
Location	New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Services
Emergency department	Level II Trauma Center
Beds	360
Helipads
Helipad	FAA LID: 5MA6
Number Length Surface ft m H1 60 18 Concrete, rooftop
Public transit access	SRTA 203
Links
Website	https://www.southcoast.org/
Lists	Hospitals in Massachusetts

St. Luke's Hospital is a Massachusetts hospital located at 101 Page Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

History

The hospital was founded in 1884^[1] by the Protestant Episcopal church with significant financial contributions from Horatio Hathaway, a church leader and one of the founders of Berkshire Hathaway.^[2]

In 1996, St. Luke's merged with Charlton Memorial^[3] in Fall River and Tobey Hospital^[4] in Wareham to form the Southcoast Health System.

In 2006, St. Luke's began constructing a new Emergency Department, which includes nineteen new private treatment bays. In 2008, the In-House Patient Pharmacy Department installed a drug dispensing system throughout the floors called Pyxis Connect. Operations continued in 2009 with upgrades to the OR rooms and Endoscopy Departments, which received new machines in each room.

Services

St. Luke's has 293 beds in service and offers in-patient medical and surgical services,^[5] including neurosurgery, cardiology, pediatric care, orthopedics, and general surgery.

References

1. nbhistory (2018-05-03). "St. Luke's Hospital – History Spoken Here". Retrieved 2024-04-05.
2. Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts: containing historical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families ... (Google eBook) (J.H. Beers & Co., 1912) pg. 1312
3. Charlton Memorial
4. "Tobey Hospital".
5. Inman, Ralph (2005). "Pediatric Orthopedics for Primary Care Physicians". Pediatric Physical Therapy. 17 (3): 229–231. doi:10.1097/01.pep.0000182843.32330.c2. ISSN 0898-5669.

External links

• Southcoast Health System

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