Patient Information
Letter from the CEO
I would like to first thank you for selecting South Shore Medical Center to provide for your health care needs. I would also like to tell you a little bit about who we are and what you can expect as a patient.
The Medical Center was started in 1962 at our Norwell site by five practicing community physicians. Unique for that time, the group was multi-specialty in nature. Within the first year of existence, the group consisted of four primary care Adult Medicine MDs, one General Surgeon, one Orthopedic Surgeon, one OB/GYN, and one Pediatrician. And so was born one of the first non-hospital related multi-specialty groups in Massachusetts.
We have grown considerably since this beginning, adding a second site in Kingston in 1988, a Women’s Center and Internal Medicine office in Weymouth in 2008 with additional offices still in the planning stages. We presently have over 60 providers and cover a much broader range of specialties, including, asthma/allergy, behavioral health, dermatology, gastroenterology and podiatry. We provide full laboratory and radiology services.
In 2004 we joined with four other groups: Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Dedham Medical Associates, Southboro Medical Group, and Granite Medical to form Atrius Health, the largest non-hospital related outpatient network in Massachusetts, with over 800 providers and covering over 650,000 patients in 24 sites in Eastern Massachusetts.
South Shore Medical Center has partnered with South Shore Hospital since its inception and continues an active affiliation agreement with this facility. Although our adult medicine doctors no longer are attendings at the hospital, we make every effort to follow our patients while they are inpatients and to maintain a continuity of care when they are discharged.
We strive to provide you with the best of medical care from our providers and their support staff. We expect this from them. We also hope that you will be treated in a kind and courteous fashion. We expect this from our staff as well. We survey our patients frequently to get their feedback and welcome your comments, positive or negative.
Again, I want to thank you for selecting the South Shore Medical Center. We have patients that have been with us for all of our 46 years. I hope that we will be able to form a caring partnership with you that will endure throughout the years.
Sincerely,
Stan Sacon, PhD