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Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River was a "happening" place during the Blizzard of 2015. Dr. Patrick Nugent, the chief of OBGYN at Southcoast Health tells WBSM News, there were three "blizzard babies" born during the storm..... Nugent says one doctor ended up spending 36 hours in the hospital caring for patients...

Improvements are coming to the maternity ward at St. Lukes Hospital. Phase one of the $13 million project is now complete. Nineteen post-partum rooms have been enlarged and upgraded with families in mind. Clinical Nurse Manager Kara Gauvin tells WBSM's Pete Braley, the rooms are more like a hotel than a hospital...

We are just ONE week away from a truly special and exciting event here at Fun 107 and WBSM. Next Friday, we kick off our Fun 107 + WBSM Radiothon...and it's all for our LOCAL kids.  The Radiothon is raising money to make sure our kids have top quality healthcare available to them close to home...

Police are investigating a double stabbing in New Bedford Sunday night. Det. Cap. Steven Vicente says the two male victims were walking across a parking lot near the 200-block of Sawyer Street Sunday night, when two other men stopped them and demanded money...

A 26-year-old New Bedford man has been arrested in connection with a carjacking near St. Luke's Hospital earlier this week. Police say 26-year-old Juan Joel Rivera of Phillips Avenue was spotted Friday afternoon getting into the stolen Chevrolet Suburban in the area of Chancery and Elm Streets...

There is a new group running the Emergency Department at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford.

Saint Luke's Hospital is the latest Southcoast Health System partner to implement the da Vinci surgical robot. The robot allows surgeons to operate on a patient by sitting at a console, controlling the arms of the robot and performing minimally invasive surgery...

The first New Year's baby was born at St. Luke's Hospital at 12:51 am New Year's day. It's a girl born to Crystal Beltre and John Santiago.

The Southcoast Hospitals Group and St. Luke's Emergency Associates announce that an agreement has been reached to transfer operations of medical services provided at the Emergency Department to another unnamed provider as of Jan. 16, 2013.

A New Bedford City employee died this morning after being found unconscious and pinned between the bucket and cab of a Bobcat front-end loader.  Detective Captain Steve Vicente says police responded late this morning to the Water Department Building on Shawmut Avenue and started piecing together some facts...