Robert Lowry, former head of New England Deaconess, dies at 95
A Boston hospital executive who led New England Deaconess Hospital for more than two decades has died. He was 95.
Robert D. "Don" Lowry, chief executive officer of the Deaconess from 1954 until his retirement in 1976, died Monday at his home in Chelsea, according to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CEO Paul Levy.
In a message to hospital staff quoted on his blog last night, Levy said that during Lowry's tenure, the Deaconess grew from 298 beds to a 482-bed specialty referral hospital known for treating diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Lowry was later named "trustee for life" at Beth Israel Deaconess, the institution formed by a 1996 merger with Beth Israel Hospital.
"Don had the reputation of being a great builder – but being a builder of buildings was not what made him a great leader," friend and former colleague Joanne Casella, chief administrative officer in the Beth Israel Deaconess department of medicine, said in the message. "It was that he was a builder of trust."
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