Cooley Dickinson's Excellent Joint Replacement Program
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Gaylord Saulsberry of Amherst was impressed with the totally cohesive experience Cooley Dickinson provided him with in its total Joint Replacement Center last December.

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Easthampton woman chooses Cooley Dickinson Joint Replacement Center after comparison

Madeline Hunter of Easthampton was an avid runner and an active woman in general until arthritic pain in her right knee began to slow her down about 10 years ago. She stopped running then, but she didn't succumb to joint replacement surgery until last winter, when, at 59, she was using a cane and her mobility was severely impeded.

Beth Hewson of Northampton is an athlete who knows a lot about the importance of training.

So, last April, when hip X-rays revealed the 55-year-old woman had no cartilage in her right hip joint, and Dr. Henry Drinker recommended a hip replacement, surgery was scheduled, and Beth went into training.

“I wanted to get strong,” she says. “I wanted to be so strong for this.”

“It’s that whole attitude of, ‘You’re going to get well,’”

Until April 30, 71-year-old Ruth-Alice Laliberte had never spent a night in a hospital “not even as an infant”. Ruth-Alice, like her mother, was born at home in the house in Easthampton that she and three previous generations of her family have occupied for over 100 years. Ruth-Alice’s mother was born in the family home as well and also never stayed in a hospital until she was 61.

George T. Lewis of Williamsburg has suffered with arthritis for 20 years, and so is all too familiar with the joint replacement process. He’s had his right hip replaced three times, and on April 30, he had his left hip replaced.

During this most recent procedure, he had the distinction of becoming one of the first patients to be operated on in the hospital’s new Kittredge Surgery Center, and he was one of the first to recover in the expanded Joint Replacement Center.

Gaylord Saulsberry of Amherst was impressed with the totally cohesive experience Cooley Dickinson provided him with in its total Joint Replacement Center last December.

"It was a really positive experience."