Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, a 308-bed nonprofit community hospital, has served as the healthcare anchor for southeastern Connecticut and southern Rhode Island for more than a century and is now a member of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health. In 2025, both the hospital’s ICU and critical care unit received the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ “Silver Beacon Award for Excellence,” and the hospital and its affiliated Groton, Conn.-based Pequot Health Center emergency department earned the “Emergency Nurses Association Lantern Award,” recognizing leadership, innovation and staff wellbeing in emergency care. The hospital is the only provider in eastern Connecticut performing both emergency and elective angioplasty, a vital capability for rapid, lifesaving cardiac intervention, and recently received verification from the American College of Surgeons as a level 3 trauma center. In 2024, the hospital delivered $86.7 million in community benefit, with more than 10,000 individuals receiving free or discounted care and millions more invested in education, prevention and nonprofit partnerships. In 2025, the hospital became a legacy partner of the New London Community Recreation Center, supporting CPR training, health screenings, maternal health programs and mental health education in the community. Cardiac electrophysiologists at the hospital are now performing pulsed field ablation for atrial fibrillation, and the hospital offers Aquablation for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
