Your Health Matters | summer 2003


 
 

St. Luke’s Dedicates Floor in Memory of John C. Bullard, MD

 
 
St. Luke’s Hospital recently announced plans to rename the hospital’s Century 2 floor after the late John Crapo Bullard, MD, a leader in health care, community involvement and philanthropy.

“On December 26, St. Luke’s Hospital and the South Coast community lost one of its most stalwart leaders in health care, education and philanthropy,” said Ronald Goodspeed, MD, MPH, President of Southcoast Hospitals Group. “It seems only fitting to honor his legacy by dedicating the Bullard Floor in his memory and in recognition of the many gifts he has given the hospital over the years.”

Dr. Bullard joined St. Luke’s Hospital in 1956, serving first as Vice President of Medical Affairs and later as Director of Medical Education and Special Assistant to the President, retiring in 1996.

Equally interested in education, he launched the hospital’s Continuing Medical Education (CME) program in 1973 and served on the New England Journal CME committee.

Dr. Bullard also developed a program at St. Luke’s, affiliated with the Tufts University School of Medicine, which placed second year medical students at St. Luke’s for a semester, affording them the opportunity to practice medicine in a community hospital rather than an urban teaching hospital.

Born in New Bedford in 1921, Dr. Bullard came from a family that long supported St. Luke’s and many other community organizations.

Dr. Bullard’s grandfather, John T. Bullard, was a doctor in New Bedford from 1890 until 1910. His father, John M. Bullard, and great uncle, Henry H. Crapo, both served as trustees and presidents of the hospital, the latter endowing the Crapo Unit. Dr. Bullard’s mother, Catherine Bullard, established the Catherine Crapo Bullard Fund. In March 2001, Dr. Bullard and his wife, Katharine, established The Bullard Society for friends of the hospital who have made a provision in their will to benefit St. Luke’s.

He is survived by his wife; sons, John K. Bullard, the former Mayor of New Bedford, and Peter C. Bullard; daughters, Sarah Bullard and Anne B. Madden; and nine grandchildren.

Dr. Bullard fittingly spent his last hours at St. Luke’s, where he had spent much of his professional career.

“St. Luke’s was dad’s home away from home,” said son Peter. “And it gave him and our entire family great comfort to be there, surrounded by such compassionate people, in a very difficult time.”




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