Courtesy of Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
NANTUCKET – The Hospital Thrift Shop capped off its 90th season with a record breaking gift to Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
A $500,000 donation was made to the hospital this week. The donation broke last year’s record of more than $427,000.
The funds will be used to acquire new medical equipment, including the future purchase of a new MRI machine.
The India Street shop is open from mid-May through mid-October.
The thrift shop also made a separate donation of $10,000 to Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket to help facilitate its move into a new office location.
New equipment to be purchased at the hospital from this year’s donation include telemedicine equipment, laboratory analyzers, VeinViewer devices for the Emergency Department, Halo bedside bassinet units for The Birthplace, and more than $147,000 for the new MRI machine.
The current MRI unit will need to be replaced within three years.
“Our 90th year of business saw many new and exciting changes including the addition of our website, our video, and the book, “Affordable Nantucket,” written by a volunteer and board advisor Nancy Newhouse,” said Brenda Williams, the president of the thrift shop’s board of directors.
“Under the guidance Manager Mary Casey and her staff, Petra Uhikova and Dean Waters, it was also a year of record-breaking donations and sales, and a record number of volunteers.”
The shop on India Street sells merchandise donated by island residents and visitors ranging from used books to furniture to artwork and more. The shop is open from mid-May through mid-October.
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