Lawrence & Memorial Hospital

Lawrence & Memorial Hospital is licensed for 280 beds and provides care to medical, surgical, pediatric, rehab, psychiatric and obstetrical patients.  We have earned a reputation of one of Connecticut’s most contemporary health centers, offering the latest technology in the practice of medicine.  Lawrence & Memorial Hospital is the region’s only provider of inpatient critical care rehabilitation services and neonatal intensive care, as well as being a regional leader in the comprehensive services offered through specialty units such as its cardiac catheterization laboratory; world-renowned Joslin diabetes treatment center and the region’s only comprehensive cancer facility, the Community Cancer Center.

Lawrence & Memorial has been working to enhance its clinical strength by forging alliances with well-known specialists or tertiary teaching institutions, sharing their expert physicians and other professionals on-site at Lawrence & Memorial facilities and drawing on the institutions’ experience and clinical pathways.  Such clinical collaborations include, in addition to the Joslin Diabetes Center; the Yale-New Haven Health System; Rhode Island Hospital, in Providence; and the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford.

In addition, we provide CT scanning and magnetic resonance imaging, a highly specialized orthopedic and neurosurgery unit and a nationally recognized cardiac rehabilitation program which supports acute and step-down coronary care units for people who are at risk or who have had heart attacks.

Staffing

Lawrence & Memorial and its various centers and services annually care for more than 15,000 inpatients and treat another 385,000 through outpatient services.  Our staff includes 350 physicians and 2,100 full and part-time nurses, clinicians, technicians and support staff.

Service Area

Our primary service area includes 10 towns along the Connecticut shoreline between Rhode Island and the Connecticut River and as far inland as Montville.  Our total service area population is approximately 180,000 expanding to 250,000 in the summer.

Community

Southeastern Connecticut has it all!  We have a variety of housing options including year-round waterfront homes, excellent schools and a safe family-oriented community!  We also have miles of beaches in the shoreline communities, along with boating, swimming, sailing and kayaking.  There are a dozen golf courses for the golfers, weekly sailing competitions and numerous tennis clubs.  We also have state parks right on the water, offering hiking trails, mountain biking and swimming.  There are active local community theater groups, a local opera company in Stonington and Shakespeare in the Park in Groton.