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CT Office of Health Strategy will hear testimony on Dec 6th with written testimony accepted through Dec 5th plus 6 days from then. So those are key dates, as in the prior post with details on how to submit that from a letter sent to the community by Friends of Sharon Hospital (with more tips and info on SaveSharonHospital.org.)

A major amount of thanks from everyone in the community is resounding for all those fighting to know and advocate for the consistent quality of care to continue at Sharon Hospital, particularly with maternity and women's services.

 I'm sure it helps to know that

Find our more about BerkShares.org to see how this effort is showing folks how to 'keep it local' and create meaningful connections and examples for others too! BerkShares in a local currency (based in the Berkshires of MA, in Great Barrington MA, the Southwestern part of MA and a bit beyond) Here's a bit from their newsletter!

Did you know that BerkShares can be spent at limited small businesses in New York and Northwestern Connecticut? One such establishment is Random Harvest, just five miles west of the Massachusetts border in Craryville, NY.

Random Harvest's vision mirrors much of what

 A Letter to Support the Maternity Ward at Sharon Hospital of CT (copied and shared without any edits)

Earlier this year, the corporate owner of Sharon Hospital, Nuvance Health, applied to Connecticut’s healthcare and hospital regulator, the Office of Health Strategy (OHS), to close the maternity unit at Sharon Hospital.

The maternity unit remains open at this time. We have been working alongside the non-profit community group, Save Sharon Hospital, to prevent this closure, and we are asking for your assistance in helping us to do everything we can to keep maternity open.

The decision on