“Thank you for the tour of your modern, ‘spanking clean’ hospital. You surely have every reason to be proud of Grace Cottage! My friend said ‘I’m glad I came along for the tour.’ I think she saw for the first time that a hospital can be a cheerful place with cheerful people!”

Dick Thayer Glenmont, NY

A grateful father says: “Our daughter Meredith injured her shoulder when she was checked on the boards at a game in West Hartford, Connecticut. Although the nearest hospital ER was just five minutes away, we were told that, on a Saturday afternoon, the wait might be as much as 3 to 4 hours. We were planning to come up to our second home in Grafton after the game anyway, so we drove about 90 minutes to Grace Cottage’s ER. Dr. Backus walked in, dressed in his flannel shirt, holding his little doctor’s bag, and saw us right away. He talked to Meredith for awhile, had her move this way and that, and then put her shoulder in a sling.

After a week in Grafton, we went home and my daughter went to a well-known Sports Medicine doctor in New Haven. After she went through a lot of tests, he gave us exactly the same diagnosis that Dr. Backus had back in Grace Cottage’s ER!”

Bob Blundon Madison, CT