Norwood Hospital operated as an acute care facility with 130+ beds and an emergency room with a cardiac catheterization lab. Norwood Hospital was never just a community hospital; it was a regional hospital.
The catchment area is 12 towns and 250,000 residents by census population.
The cascading effect of transports to other hospitals is impacting towns that are not in the catchment area.
In many communities, the daytime population exceeds the census population (e.g., Norwood’s daytime population is 60,000, and Legacy Place during the holidays adds thousands, including games at Patriot Place).
In 2019, Norwood Hospital served 126,000 patients in its last full year of operation.