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Members of the South Shore Health Board, clinical leadership, and Quincy Mayor Tom Koch celebrate the ceremonial ribbon cutting of SSMC Quincy
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South Shore Health Opens Medical Center in Downtown Quincy

The $2.7 million location is an exciting new chapter in South Shore Medical Center's 57-year history of providing primary care to the South Shore.

South Shore Health Opens Medical Center in Downtown Quincy

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South Shore Health’s Emergency and Trauma Teams Honored with “Outstanding Team Response Award”

Members of South Shore Health’s EMS, Emergency Department and Trauma Services Teams are being honored with the Outstanding Team Response Award by the Metropolitan Boston Emergency Medical Services...

South Shore Health’s Emergency and Trauma Teams Honored with “Outstanding Team Response Award”

South Shore Health AHA Mission Lifeline Awards

South Shore Health honored with two American Heart Association awards

South Shore Hospital and South Shore Emergency Medicine Services (EMS), both part of South Shore Health, have received two Mission: Lifeline® Receiving Quality Achievement Awards, gold and silver...

South Shore Health honored with two American Heart Association awards

South Shore EMS and Salas Family

South Shore Health Paramedics Help Deliver Baby in Weymouth

It was anything but a routine call for South Shore Health paramedics when the crew was dispatched to a patient’s home to care for a pregnant mother. Learn more about how the team helped a young family...

South Shore Health Paramedics Help Deliver Baby in Weymouth

Weymouth EMS truck and first responder outside South Shore Hospital

Hospital to Send Mental Health Specialists out with EMS

Thanks to a Cohasset couple's generous gift to South Shore Health, mental health clinicians will now be sent out into the community with EMS crews.

Hospital to Send Mental Health Specialists out with EMS

Carbon Monoxide Warning

EMT carbon monoxide monitor saves South Shore family

After a carbon monoxide poisoning scare in Weymouth, South Shore Health first responders and town officials warned about the dangers of carbon monoxide.

EMT carbon monoxide monitor saves South Shore family

Dr. William Tollefsen

South Shore Hospital’s William Tollefsen, MD, receives Mark E. Weinstein Award

South Shore Hospital’s William Tollefsen, MD, was recently presented with the Mark E. Weinstein Award at the Metropolitan Boston Emergency Medical Services Council (MBEMSC) annual awards dinner on...

South Shore Hospital’s William Tollefsen, MD, receives Mark E. Weinstein Award