AROUND AND ABOUT THE OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER

WHO IS THAT MAN IN THE WHITE COAT?!

Although he’s worked at Grace Cottage since July 2003, Physician Assistant Don Jackson says that he’s relatively unknown. Perhaps this is because Don works a 24-hour shift in the Emergency Room on Saturdays, beginning at 8 a.m. Even staff members who work only weekdays are unclear about Don’s identity!

A New Hampshire native, Don graduated from the University of New Hampshire and the Yale University Physicians Associate Program. “I took my first PA job in Cavendish, Vermont for one year...that was 30 years ago,” laughed Don.

During the week, Don works at a family practice in Ludlow, VT. During summer months, he sometimes makes the 50-minute commute to Grace Cottage from Ludlow in his 1969 red Corvette. In his free time, he enjoys playing the guitar, but says that he’s “not ready for prime time yet!”

“Working at Grace Cottage is like coming home to the way that medicine should be practiced, and the way it used to be. A lot of bigger hospitals have lost the personal ambiance that you find at Grace Cottage’s Emergency Room. Patients still get devoted, one-on-one care at Grace Cottage, and the Grace Cottage staff is fantastic - I absolutely can’t say enough about them.”