To Harrison Bane

President, Northeast Region, Steward Healthcare

Sal Perla,
President, Steward Norwood Hospital

Dear Mr. Bane and Mr. Perla,

We write as a community coalition concerned with the future of healthcare in the greater Norwood Area. Our community has suffered a terrible loss resulting from the flood that closed Norwood Hospital nearly a year ago on June 28, 2020.   We have come together to urge three things:

• That Norwood Hospital be rebuilt;
• That it be rebuilt without delay;
• That it be reopened as a full-service hospital including all prior services.

We are writing both to urge that all plans for rebuilding and reopening be expedited as well as to offer our help for the effort and to work with you to these ends.  As our first collaborative act, our coalition looks forward to supporting Steward's applications to the state Department of Public Health necessary for breaking ground as soon as possible.  We anxiously await your company's filing of that application so that we can do so.  And so, first and foremost, we hope to hear back that you are in agreement with these three urgent principles.

Sincerely,

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