South Shore Hospital has opened a new 24-bed intermediate care unit that treats patients with specialized medical needs like emphysema and congestive heart failure. Read the Weymouth News story.

The new unit, located on the first floor near the hospital’s Main Entrance, doubles short-stay capacity from 10 to 20 beds.

The recognition allows South Shore Hospital to perform bariatric surgery on United Healthcare patients and confirms the Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery is clinically superior to other bariatric programs.

Due to the storm that hit our region October 26 and 27, we've adjusted hours and operations at certain South Shore Health ambulatory care locations.

The Weymouth hospital is one of four in Massachusetts to earn the competitive award.

Effective Monday, July 25, the Outpatient Lab inside the McKim Family Main Entrance will be open reduced hours.

The Leapfrog Group rates hospital among the best in greater Boston and the U.S. for safety

A new way of caring for opioid-addicted newborns has allowed South Shore Hospital to reduce the use of withdrawal symptom medications by 25 percent over the past seven months and let pediatric patients go home earlier, hospital officials say. Read the Patriot Ledger article.

Dr. Allen Smith, MD, MS, President and CEO of South Shore Health, and Pamela O’Leary, Chair of the South Shore Health Board of Directors, along with other senior leaders, recently welcomed Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh for a tour of South Shore Hospital.