Select Affiliation Partner Announcement Media Coverage

• Cooley Dickinson, MGH to pursue alliance,
  MassGeneral.org, Friday, March 2, 2012
• Trustees to vote for affiliation with MGH,
  Masslive, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
• Cooley Dickinson joins with Boston-based MGH,
  Daily Hampshire Gazette, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
• Cooley Dickinson to partner with Mass General Hospital,
  WHMP radio, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
• Northampton Hospital, MGH to pursue merger,
  Boston Globe, Wednesday, February 29, 2012

 Older coverage

• Cooley Dickinson Hospital emphasizes preventative care under new Alternative Quality Contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield
  Masslive - Monday, November 14, 2011

• Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton narrows field of potential partners to 2
  Masslive - Thursday, November 03, 2011

• Rethinking health-care value
  Daily Hampshire Gazette - Wednesday, July 13, 2011

• Cooley Dickinson explores affiliation; move would boost money, services
  Daily Hampshire Gazette - Monday, February 14, 2011

Reports about other hospitals

• Wilmington could be affected by hospital mergers
  GateHouse News Service - Friday, January 27, 2012

• The PBS program U.S. Health Care: The Good News looks at high-quality, low-cost regions of the country, to find out how they do it. They offer many different models of health care delivery, from small rural private practices to big-city clinics treating hundreds of thousands of patients. The program also explains population-based care and medical homes.
  http://www.pbs.org/programs/us-health-care-good-news/