Falmouth Hospital

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Location = Falmouth, Massachusetts
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State = Massachusetts
Country = US
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Type = Private
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Beds = 95
Founded = 1963
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Website = http://www.capecodhealth.org/body.cfm?id=7
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Falmouth Hospital is a private medical center located in Falmouth, Massachusetts founded in 1963. [http://www.givetocapecodhealth.org/hist.htm Cape Cod Healthcare history] ] It has 95 beds with unknown number of employees and physicians on staff. Falmouth Hospital is located just west of Palmer Avenue (Route 28) just south off of TerHeun Drive. [http://www.masstech.org/Project%20Deliverables/GB_CII_Feasibility_FalmouthWindFeas.pdf Wind Turbine Feasibility study at Falmouth Hospital, Feb 2005] ]

The Emergency Department is one of the busiest in Massachusetts, providing emergency services to more than 40,000 patients on an annual basis.

In 1996 it merged with Cape Cod Hospital to form the unified "Cape Cod Healthcare" organization.

History

Falmouth Hospital opened May 2, 1963 with 58 beds. A third floor was added in 1969 increasing capacity to 88 beds. Then further expansions in 1971, 1976, and 1977 added offices, a helicopter landing pad, and other facilities. In 1983 a fourth floor addition was completed along with x-ray, laboratory, and emergency services facilities. In 1996, an outpatient and maternity center was added.

Miscellaneous

Billionaire Peter Nicholas is a benefactor and uses the hospital's heliport. [ Cape Cod Times (April 29, 2005) "Rich donor keeps Falmouth Hospital heliport rights."]

ee also

* Cape Cod Hospital

References

External links

* [http://www.capecodhealth.org/body.cfm?id=7 Falmouth Hospital's official website]