The growing number of coronavirus cases across Massachusetts has led to new guidance from the state, which requires us to postpone select inpatient surgeries to keep beds open in the event they are needed for critically ill patients.

South Shore Health's Kim Dever, MD introduced the City Line audience to South Shore Health’s Team Birth Project, a first-of-its-kind program aimed at improving communication with patients and their families throughout pregnancy and during the birthing process to foster safe outcomes for women.

South Shore Visiting Nurses Association (VNA), part of South Shore Health, has officially earned Accreditation from the Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts—cementing its reputation as one of the state’s most trusted providers of home health care.

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 welcome a new addition.

South Shore Hospital has once again earned an “A” safety grade rating from the Leapfrog Group, a designation that ranks the hospital among the safest in the United States. South Shore Hospital is part of South Shore Health, a not-for-profit, charitable health system offering primary and specialty...

Several weeks after launching an initial mobile integrated health (MIH) program in Weymouth, South Shore Health has partnered with the town of Hanover to expand the program.

South Shore Health’s Peter E. Paull, MD, associate director of the Department of Medicine, is the co-winner of the 2019-2020 Mark Aisner, MD Award for Excellence in Teaching Physical Diagnosis. The prestigious award was established in 1988 by Tufts University School of Medicine colleagues, former...

South Shore Hospital Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery has been accredited as a Comprehensive Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint Quality Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

A new study designed to investigate how a patient’s COVID-19 ICU hospitalization affects the mental health of family members is currently under way at South Shore Hospital.

Made possible by a nearly $142,000 grant from the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation, these modified rooms are calming, controlled spaces aimed at reducing stress, agitation, and anxiety for patients, particularly those who are neurodivergent or on the autism spectrum.