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Published 04/15/2019
Local author Betty Cotter chronicles the history of South County Health
Local author Betty Cotter chronicles the history of South County Health
Leadership: Part 1 of 2 - Local author Betty J. Cotter chronicles the history of South County Health
Nursing was a powerful and difficult job, equivalent to the hospital president.
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.