Carol O. Ridgway

Lawrence & Memorial is a not-for-profit, general, acute care, private hospital that has been serving Connecticut region since 1912. They are licensed for 280 beds and provide patient care to medical, surgical, pediatric, rehab, psychiatric and obstetrical patients. Their staff has more than 2,400 highly skilled professional, technical and support personnel representing virtually every diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative specialty. Specialty areas include critical care, the region's only inpatient rehab unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, CT scanning and magnetic resonance imaging, interventional radiology, nationally recognized cardiac rehabilitation program which supports acute and step-down coronary care units caring for people who have had heart attacks, sleep center- located at Hilton Garden Inn, Groton and Employee Assistance Program Their primary service area includes 10 towns along the Connecticut shoreline between Rhode Island and the Connecticut River and as far inland as Montville. The hospital is an important health care provider for the residents of Fishers Island, New York, the area known as Washington County, Rhode Island, and other parts of eastern Connecticut. Their total service area population is approximately 180,000 people, expanding to 250,000 in the summer.