We need to build this infrastructure more than we've got. Abbott said Cape Cod Healthcare, parent company of Cape Cod Hospital, Falmouth Hospital and five other local health care affiliates, is now working on a new strategic plan which includes developing new sites across the Cape to provide outpatient services and maybe even minor surgery. Abbott said Cape Cod Hospital, which just underwent a multi-million dollar expansion, is even now struggling to provide services at its current facility.
Parking is also a problem, and there is no more room on-site to expand.
For a hospital we can go lots of other places. Today you would never build a hospital where we are. Plans are already underway to expand the Long Pond Medical Center off of Exit 11 to provide the lower Cape with outpatient services, such as MRIs and mammograms. Cape Cod Healthcare has also recruited 40 new physicians over the past few months. Abbott cited Cape Cod Community College as an example of a perfect location for the health care campus he envisions and only half-jokingly suggested that Cape Cod Hospital trade sites with the college.