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= Cooley Dickinson Hospital = Cooley Dickinson Hospital is a nonprofit community hospital located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the primary hub of Cooley Dickinson Health Care, a regional network of primary and specialty care medical providers, an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital, which is part of Partners HealthCare network.

Facilities and Current Operations
Cooley Dickinson Hospital has 140 licensed beds and 11 licensed bassinets. It is used by more than 77,000 community members a year. Notable subsections of the facility include its Childbirth Center, the Kittredge Surgery Center and the Mass General Cancer Center at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.

Cooley Dickinson Health Care encompasses more than 20 locations in the Pioneer Valley including members of Cooley Dickinson Medical Group, and also includes Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice, a homecare provider that employs nurses, rehabilitation therapists and social workers in western Massachusetts. The organization is a major regional employer, retaining approximately 2,000 employees, and also provides funding for numerous other nonprofit and community health organizations.

Affiliated Institutions
Since 2013, Cooley Dickinson Hospital has been an affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital and part of Partners HealthCare. In addition to shared billing and medical records, the hospitals currently collaborate in the areas of tele-medicine (stroke), maternal-fetal medicine, organ transplant evaluation and cancer treatment.

History:
The Cooley Dickinson Hospital was founded in 1885 with a bequest from the will of Caleb Cooley Dickinson, a descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, the first settler in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and a cousin of poet Emily Dickinson. It was originally established as a “Hospital for the sick poor,” and admitted its first patient in January 1886. The Henry Shepherd Memorial Surgery annex was opened in 1904 and a new building was dedicated in August 1908. In January 1920, George and Anne J. McCallum offered the gift of a Nurses Home Building and a Nurses’ Home opened in December 1922.

From 1901-1975, the facility turned out thousands of graduates from its Cooley Dickinson School of Nursing, including hundreds trained through an accelerated program during World War II for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.

In the summer of 1964, U.S Senator Edward Kennedy spent approximately two weeks at Cooley Dickinson Hospital recovering from a plane crash in neighboring Southampton, before being moved to New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. The crash killed the plane’s pilot, Edwin Zimny, and one of Kennedy’s aides, Edward Moss, whose name is still honored by a Cooley Dickinson nursing scholarship the Senator established in his memory. Fellow Senator Birch Bayh (D, IN) and his wife Marvella also survived the crash and were also treated at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.

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Independent sources/references:
1)     American Hospital Directory: https://www.ahd.com/free_profile/220015/Cooley_Dickinson_Hospital/Northampton/Massachusetts/

2)     Boston.com: https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/07/01/massachusetts-general-hospital-completes-its-acquisition-of-cooley-dickinson-hospital

3)     Historic Northampton: http://www.historic-northampton.org/highlights/dickinson.html

4)     State Merger notice: http://www.mass.gov/anf/docs/hpc/material-change-notices/phs-cdh-notice-of-material-change-cdh-notice.pdf

5)     UMass Nursing School Collaboration: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-school-nursing-cooley-dickinson-hospital-collaborate-nurse-education-program

6)     Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000701155

7)     ABC News: Edward M. Kennedy Escaped Death in 1964: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=8271369

8)     The Hill: Bayh rmembers 1964 plane crash: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/56683-bayh-remembers-1964-plane-crash

9)     Boston.Com: Turbulence and tragedies eclipse early triumphs: http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/02/16/chapter_2_the_youngest_brother

External Links:
Partners HealthCare: http://www.partners.org/

Caleb Cooley Dickinson: http://www.historic-northampton.org/highlights/dickinson.html

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Cooley Dickinson Hospital

Partners Healthcare

Geography

Location               30 Locust Street, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States

Coordinates       42°19'50.4"N 72°39'11.2"W

Founded              1886

Website              www.cooleydickinson.org

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