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Welcome to Hallmark Health's Media Coverage section. This section is designed to assist patients and journalists seeking information about our current news and to introduce our healthcare experts. We are also available to assist you by providing information about Hallmark Health and its members, including Lawrence Memorial of Medford and Melrose-Wakefield Hospitals.
To arrange an interview or photo shoot, contact Jesse Kawa, Communications Specialist for public and media relations, at 781-338-7243. We also maintain a 24-hour media on-call system. If you are on deadline after normal business hours, call the Hallmark Health operator at 781-979-3000 and ask them to page the marketing/communications team member on-call.
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Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:00 |
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Boston Globe
September 24, 2006 Suburban strategiesBoston's big teaching hospitals are strengthening their presence in outlying communities, and local medical centers are nervous. Can they compete for patients against such prestigious heavyweights? By Christopher Rowland, Globe Staff Academic medical centers in Boston are putting a tighter competitive squeeze on community hospitals by exporting more of their prestigious medical services to the suburbs. The plan disclosed this month by Tufts-New England Medical Center and New England Baptist Hospital to build a new hospital with up to 190 beds somewhere along Route 128 -- perhaps in Westwood -- is only the most prominent example of a trend that is rattling many executives at community hospitals. Harvard-affiliated heavyweights Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, for example, are also increasing their strength in outlying communities. With their strong brand names and reputations for excellence, many expect they will easily lure suburban patients from local hospitals.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:09 |
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Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00 |
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Medford Transcript
October 26, 2006 By Carly Okyle Although they’ve been waiting for more than a decade, physicians and staff at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital have not weakened in their desire to perform elective angioplasty procedures onsite, even if it costs a few hundred thousand dollars. "It’s a major investment for our organization, but we feel strongly that it’s best for the community," said Steven Kapfhammer, executive vice president of the hospital. There has been a cardiac catheterization lab in the hospital since 1993, but until September, it was used as a research facility. But it seems as if Hallmark Health’s investment is about to pay off. The Department of Public Health recently granted Melrose-Wakefield Hospital permission to perform elective angioplasty procedures as part of a trial which compares coronary intervention between Massachusetts hospitals with cardiac surgery on the premises and community hospitals without the service. The trial is designed to look at 6,000 patients and will take approximately four years to complete.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:13 |
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Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00 |
Joe DiMarino was getting his golf clubs out of his car at Mount Hood when it hit him. Chest pains. Sweating. Difficulty breathing.He was having a heart attack. Within an hour, doctors at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital had performed life-saving surgery, and DiMarino was on the road to recovery. Just a few months ago, DiMarino would have been rushed to Boston in an ambulance for the emergency angioplasty he needed, delaying treatment by an hour or more - and decreasing the operation's effectiveness.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:09 |
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