BETH ISRAEL COMING TO COMPASS MEDICAL (AT THE ROTARY) MARCH 1ST

 

Middleborough News

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by Alice Elwell

January 10, 2024 – Beth Israel Lahey Health will open the doors of the former Compass facility that abruptly closed last June, leaving hundreds of patients high and dry, some desperately seeking to find out where their physicians went.

Town Manager James McGrail said Beth Israel is expected to open on March 1, providing primary care services. Beth Israel is expected to expand to include urgent care and specialty services.

"We thank Sen. Marc Pacheco and Beth Israel Lahey Health for their work on this arrangement," Town Manager McGrail said. Many people in Middleborough and nearby communities were affected by the Compass Medical closure and we are grateful that a healthcare practice will provide a new and important resource for residents. We look forward to welcoming Beth Israel Lahey Health to Middleborough," McGrail said in a prepared statement.

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“I am extremely pleased new healthcare services will be coming to the Town of Middleborough. Following the abrupt closure of Compass Medical this past summer, Beth Israel Lahey Health has announced they will be opening a new practice at the location previously operated by Compass.” said Dean of the Senate, State Sen. Marc R. Pacheco, D-Taunton.

“Ensuring my constituents in the Third Bristol and Plymouth district have access to high-quality medical services has long been a top priority for me throughout my tenure as State Senator. Many thanks and congratulations Beth Israel Lahey Health and all those at the local level working hard to facilitate the establishment of this new healthcare resource for our region,” Senator Marc Pacheco said in a prepared statement.

Beth Israel Lahey Health is part of a healthcare system with a staff of nearly 40,000 and affiliated with a dozen hospitals including Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Plymouth (BID). The hospital is 18.7 miles from the town’s center.

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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center took over Jordan Hospital in 2014 that began as a 12-bed rural hospital in 1903 and has grown to a 170-bed, acute care community hospital.

The hospital was originally named for its first benefactor, Eben D. Jordan, a summer resident of Plymouth who had generously offered to give the sum of $10,000, which he later doubled to $20,000. One of the first acts of the directors was the purchase of the land on Sandwich Street, where the hospital still stands. In December of 1903, Jordan Hospital opened its doors to the first patients and has remained a community hospital ever since, according to BID.

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The 36,000-square-foot facility at 8 Commerce Boulevard opened to great fanfare in 2011 after the doors of St. Luke’s Hospital in the downtown had been shuttered for over 20-years. Compass slammed the doors closed June 1, 2023, without any warning to patients, while doctors on staff were told patients would be given a month’s notice before closing. Beth Israel is expected to open on March 1.

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