Nantucket Cottage Hospital Names New Chief Nursing Officer

Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Monday named Amy Beaton, RN, MSN, as its new permanent chief nursing officer.

Beaton is already well known at the hospital, where she has served in several leadership roles, including director of the emergency department, executive director of nursing, and most recently as interim chief nursing officer. In those roles, she helped guide nursing care across the hospital’s inpatient, emergency, perioperative, procedural, and ambulatory services.

“Amy is a trusted and respected leader whose commitment to our nurses, patients, and community is evident in everything she does,” said Amy Lee, president of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. “Her deep understanding of our hospital and her collaborative leadership style make her exceptionally well-suited to lead nursing at NCH.”

The move by NCH comes a little more than a year after its former chief nurse, Aimee Carew Lyons, was among the hundreds of employees laid off by NCH's parent company, Mass General Brigham, as part of a "strategic reorganization" that it said was necessary to stabilize the finances of the 12-hospital healthcare system. For a brief period last year, NCH shared a chief nursing office - Claire Seguin - with Martha's Vineyard Hospital, before Seguin was named president of MVH in December 2025.

Before coming to Nantucket, Beaton worked at Reading Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center, where she served as Clinical Nurse Manager in the Emergency Department and helped plan the launch of a pediatric emergency department.

"As Chief Nursing Officer, Beaton will continue to focus on supporting nurses and care teams as they deliver high-quality, patient-centered care to the Nantucket community," NCH stated in its announcement.