Centennial Origins Story - Part 2
Published 01/21/2019
On Oct. 9, 1922, Caroline Hazard – philanthropist and champion of the South County Cottage Hospital – outlined her vision for a new hospital in Wakefield.
On Oct. 9, 1922, Caroline Hazard – philanthropist and champion of the South County Cottage Hospital – outlined her vision for a new hospital in Wakefield.
To understand the impetus behind the hospital's establishment, we must look back at least a year before it accepted its first patients in a house at 23 Kenyon Ave. in Wakefield.