My mother had the unfortunate visit to Cape Cod Hospital for a visit that resulted in needing a surgical AAA repair. Dr. Welch, luckily for us, was on call and promptly evaluated my mother. After being admitted to the hospital Dr. Welch had planned for surgery after being very thorough and ordering consults to evaluate my mother's safe readiness for surgery. Dr. Welch visited my mother inpatient every day to assess her, post op he called me each day to give me the updates on how she was doing and I very much appreciated this. I write this review from the perspective of a surgical ICU nurse that works in a large teaching Boston hospital, for which I am proud of my unit for the excellent care we provide, why I state this is because I am so grateful that excellent doctors and nurses work at and have cared for my elderly parents several time at CCH and I have full confidence in the care they receive in their own community with out having to be transferred to a larger city.