Mission
To provide Cooley Dickinson patients and communities with the best health care services in the most appropriate setting.
Vision
To become a model community hospital by
By: Loretta Leone and John Langone
June 28, 1964
Quickly and efficiently the orderlies wheel the operating table down the dimly-lighted hall and through the door into the hot glare of Emergency Room I.
The patient lying on his back is a big man. He is oblivious to the excited preparations around him, for he is unconscious and near death. Staring, an indication of severe brain damage. He is bleeding profusely from tongue cuts.