Anna Jaques Hospital (Newburyport, Mass.). Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123-bed independent, nonprofit community hospital that serves 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley, North Shore and southern New Hampshire. The hospital has about 1,000 employees and 250 physicians and is closely affiliated with Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Anna Jaques Hospital has been named one of Boston Business Journal's "Best Places to Work" three times, most recently in 2014.