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New Physician Joins Amy Esdale Primary Care

November 9, 2011

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ADDISON GILBERT HOSPITAL WELCOMES KAREN DAMICO, D.O.

Physician is newest addition to Amy Esdale Primary Care

(Gloucester, MA) October 24 - Amy Esdale, M.D. is pleased to announce that Karen Damico, D.O. has joined her practice and will be seeing patients at Amy Esdale Primary Care at Addison Gilbert Hospital located at 298 Washington Street in Gloucester.

"I am very excited to welcome Dr. Damico to my practice," said Amy Esdale "She provides a great blend of top- notch clinical education and knowledge with a strong passion for providing community-based care. I also expect that she will be an active member of the community and that will be evident over the course of the months and years to come".

Dr. Damico received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the New England College of Osteopathic Medicine located in Biddeford, Maine. She completed her residency at Brown University's residency program at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island located in Pawtucket, RI. As an osteopathic medicine practitioner, she is trained in understanding how the mind, body, and spirit connect and impacts the body. "My approach is empathetic and non-judgmental. I see myself as an educator and a guide who empowers individuals to become active decision-makers in their own care," says Damico.

Amy Esdale Primary Care is a primary care, family medicine practice providing comprehensive healthcare services; patients also have access to Beverly Hospital at Danvers, a state-of-the-art facility that includes radiology and imaging services, orthopedics, day surgery, lab services, cardiovascular care and more. Amy Esdale Primary Care offers patients high quality, personalized health care. Physicians have a wide range of clinical interests and understand the importance of getting to know patients personally, their medical history, their family and all of the factors that have an impact on their health.

For more information on the practice or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Karen Damico, please contact 978-283-2726.

AddisonGilbert Hospital

Addison Gilbert Hospital is a full service, 70-bed medical/surgical acute care facility. The hospital, founded in 1889, provides state-of-the-art inpatient and outpatient care to residents of the Cape Ann community in specialties such as radiology, cancer care, primary adult and pediatric care, day surgery, midwifery, gynecology and maternity care, inpatient geriatric services, and emergency medicine. Among all other Massachusetts hospitals we continue to score among the top hospitals in the nation for patient satisfaction in surveys conducted by Press Ganey Associates. In addition, Addison Gilbert Hospital has been named one of the nation's "100 Top Hospitals" by Thomson Reuters.

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100 TOP HOSPITALS

Beverly Hospital and Addison Gilbert Hospital Among Truven Health Analytics 2015 Top 100 Hospitals

THE LEAPFROG GROUP'S HOSPITAL SAFETY SCORE

Since the onset of the Hospital Safety Score in Spring 2012, the publicly available data showed Beverly Hospital and Addision Gilbert Hospital have consistently exceeded the standards of other medical institutions in terms of patient safety procedures in place, earning them both a Straight A’s distinction.

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Public Announcement Concerning a Proposed Health Care Project

Lahey Health System, Inc., located at 41 Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01805 (the parent of Lahey Clinic Hospital, Inc., 41 Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01805, Northeast Hospital Corp., 85 Herrick Street, Beverly, MA 01915, and Winchester Hospital, 41 Highland Avenue, Winchester, MA 01890), CareGroup, Inc., located at 109 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (the parent of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (which in turn includes Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton, Inc., 199 Reedsdale Road, Milton, MA 02186, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Needham, Inc., 148 Chestnut Street, Needham, MA 02492, and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Plymouth, Inc., 275 Sandwich Street, Plymouth, MA 02360), New England Baptist Hospital, 125 Parker Hill Road, Boston, MA 02120, and Mount Auburn Hospital, 330 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138), and Seacoast Regional Health Systems, Inc., located at 25 Highland Avenue, Newburyport, MA 01950 (the parent of Anna Jaques Hospital, 25 Highland Avenue, Newburyport, MA 01950) (collectively the "Applicant"), intend to file an Application for Determination of Need ("Application") relative to a proposed affiliation involving the Applicant (the "Project"). The Applicant is submitting its Application as it intends to affiliate to create a new comprehensive, distributed, high quality and high-value non-profit healthcare delivery system to serve patients throughout Eastern Massachusetts. To facilitate the level of economic and clinical integration required to better manage the health of a broad population and meaningfully impact care delivery in the state, the Project would establish a new parent company that will function as the sole corporate member of each hospital, and will also include the participation of the organizations’ accountable care organizations. The Total Value of the Project is estimated to be approximately $5,323,154,000. There is not expected to be any anticipated price or service impacts on the Applicant’s existing Patient Panel. Any ten Taxpayers of Massachusetts may register in connection with the intended Application or amendment by no later than October 16, 2017, by contacting the Department of Public Health Determination of Need Program, 250 Washington Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108.

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