Denise Schepici, president and CEO of Martha's Vineyard Hospital, was named #43 on a list of the top 100 women leading businesses in Massachusetts.
Martha's Vineyard Hospital
July 13, 2021
Noah Asimow
Wastewater concerns continue to hover over the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital’s proposed new nursing home facility off the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, with selectmen voting Monday to commission an independent analysis.
July 21, 2021
Noah Asimow
The highly contagious Delta variant has officially arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, hospital officials confirmed Wednesday morning, as Covid-19 cases jump upward across the Cape and Islands.
July 29, 2021
Noah Asimow
The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has closed on a 26-acre property, paving the way for a long-awaited new nursing home. The project still must clear a host of tangled wastewater issues.
2001
November 8, 2001
Contract talks between management and nurses at the Martha's
Vineyard Hospital are now at a bitter standoff, and hospital chief
executive officer Kevin Burchill said this week that he is prepared for
the possibility of a strike.
"Everything is now off the table. We're prepared for the
worst but we expect the best," he said.
March 29, 2001
Hospital leaders gave themselves a checkup this week, and while no crisis was detected, there was a prescription - for more work.
1998
August 21, 1998
In a new partnership described as “the greatest of leaps,” Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has entered into an agreement for sharing staff and expertise with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The agreement means that the hospitals will share doctors, including specialists that the Island hospital does not keep on staff full-time, such as pulmonary physicians and oncologists. In addition, Island medical personnel will go to the Boston hospitals on occasion for training, and vice versa.
1963
July 26, 1963
The Cottagers will hold a sale at Hartford Park in Oak Bluffs on Friday, Aug. 2 for the benefit of the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Their tables will include gifts, food, white elephants, grabs, hot dogs and tonic. Mrs. John J. Goldsberry is serving as general chairman, Miss Dorothy West, Mrs. Frederick White, Mrs. Wilmer Lucas, and E. W. Finley, who is president of the Cottagers.
There will also be tables in charge of the following: Mrs. David Rappaport, special benefit, a doll; miscellaneous, Mrs. Herbert G. Louis; aprons, Mrs. Anna M. Ryan.
1956
August 31, 1956
The Cottagers Club ended its first active season, well pleased with its donations to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital auxiliary and the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital as its first charitable ventures.
The Cottagers Club came into tentative being last summer when a group of friends decided to direct some of their combined energies toward some unselfish enterprise beneficial to Island charities. This summer at the first official meeting the enthusiasm was contagious, and thirty-eight members now comprise the active list of the cottagers.
1930
July 8, 1930
Public attention is continually drawn to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, the only public institution of its kind in the county. A comparatively new institution, and occupying a building that is very new indeed, there is every excuse for the turning of the public eye in that direction and for the whole-hearted support of the institution be every Island resident, either permanent or temporary.
