Salem, Mass.-based North Shore Medical Center, part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, is working to make its board look more like its patient population to satisfy state requirements for a $207 million expansion project, according to a report from The Salem News.
NSMC plans to close Lynn, Mass.-based Union Hospital in October 2019 and consolidate it with Salem (Mass.) Hospital as part of the expansion project. However, many critics of the hospital closure voiced concerns that just one of 24 trustees on NSMC's board was a Lynn resident — despite that 39 percent of the medical center's patients live in Lynn. Due to these concerns, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health required NSMC to create a board "with cultural, ethnic and gender diversity that is reflective of communities it serves" as a condition of its approval of the expansion plan, according to the report.
So far, NSMC has appointed four new trustees, three of whom work or live in Lynn.
Here are the new board members.
- Dharma Cortes, PhD, social scientist, Lynn resident
- Gargi Cooper, nurse practitioner, Lynn Community Health Center
- Jay McManus, director, Children's Law Center of Massachusetts in Lynn
- Johanna O'Connor, MD, chair of anesthesia, NSMC
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