Addison Gilbert Hospital
On Wednesday, December 6th at 5:00 pm in the GHS Auditorium, the Mass Department of Public Health will conduct a public hearing on the application for Determination of Need filed by CareGroup Inc, Lahey Health and Seacoast Regional Health System with respect to their intent to affiliate to create a new comprehensive and distributed healthcare delivery system in the Eastern Massachusetts marketplace. The applicant intends to establish and incorporate a new parent organization, NewCo, which will function as the sole corporate member of the entities.
What does this mean for us on Cape Ann? Our local hospital, Addision Gilbert, currently under Lahey Health, will be merged into this new organization NewCo, who will then deliver our health care.
Please attend this important meeting to express our interest in keeping current service levels at AGH.
Enduring Gloucester 
After attending the Partners for AGH meeting today, I now understand that, once approved, this merger will group AGH with 7 other community hospitals. However, AGH will have the least services, particularly acute care, of the eight total. Rather than have services at AGH continue to be eroded, we are asking for equity in services which would include restoration of services and investments made in equipment and surgical staffing. Please consider attending this important meeting and have the State hear your voice.
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