Cover
Feature
Advanced Surgical Services at
Quincy Medical Center
By eric slack
Vascular and spinal surgeries highlight improVements in surgical offerings
under steward health care's umbrella.
IT
iS no Secret that
stand-alone community hospitals often find it a challenge to thrive. Financial
pressures and the changing face of health care in
America have led to a great deal of consolidation.
One hospital that has benefitted from this trend is Quincy
Medical Center, which has been a part of Steward Health
Care for almost two years now.
"Having Steward come in was a blessing for us," says
Nissage Cadet, M.D., Chief of Surgery at Quincy Medical
Center. "Whereas others may have had the infrastructure or
endowment needed to survive as a standalone facility, we
did not. We were fending for ourselves, so becoming part of
Steward was the best thing that could happen."
Quincy Medical Center has been a member of Steward
Health Care since October 2011, when Steward completed
the acquisitions of Morton Hospital and Medical Center and
Quincy Medical Center. The acquisition allowed Steward to
provide the long-term financial stability that Quincy Medical
Quincy Medical Center's Chief of surgery nissage Cadet, M.d., reviews a case with a staff member in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
MdneWS.coM ■ MD
News Greater Boston
|5
