Mount Auburn Hospital Merges with Parmenter

Mount Auburn Hospital President and CEO Jeanette Clough and Parmenter Home Care & Hospice CEO Denise McQuaide have announced the formation of CareGroup Parmenter Home Care & Hospice Inc., a subsidiary of Mount Auburn Hospital.

This new healthcare entity has been designed to meet the growing needs of the Greater Boston and the suburban communities West of Boston, benefiting from the combined strength of this comprehensive network consisting of acute, post-acute and expanded community health services. It is a merger of CareGroup Home Care, a Mount Auburn Hospital affiliate, and Parmenter Home Care & Hospice.

The merger is a marriage of strengths. CareGroup Home Care had been looking to add hospice services and Parmenter Home Care & Hospice had been looking to partner with a leading care system. Together, as CareGroup Parmenter Home Care & Hospice, they will now be able to offer hospice services to an expanded community of patients and families.

According to Jeanette Clough, “Through this merger, CareGroup Home Care and Mount Auburn Hospital will embody the concept of the whole being greater than the parts. We will now be able to offer hospice care to a large network of communities in Greater Boston and West of Boston. It has been something we have wanted to do for a long time and we are delighted to have found such a strong partner as Parmenter.”

Denise McQuaide agrees. “We are excited about our future. This merger is a remarkable match for Parmenter Home Care & Hospice. We look forward to continuing to provide exceptional and compassionate home care and hospice services and we are thrilled to work with Mount Auburn Hospital as well as the other Care Group Hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and New England Baptist Hospital.

CareGroup Parmenter Home Care & Hospice, Inc. office will be located in Watertown at the existing CareGroup Home Care office. The Parmenter office in Wayland will become a branch office for clinicians and staff who are caring for the residents of suburban communities west of Boston.