The (old) walls come tumbling down Before summer's end, all that will remain of the old Nantucket Cottage Hospital will be memories of babies born and illnesses survived or not. The island's medical safety net, 24-7 for 365 days of the year, already welcomes patients to its sparkling and modern new building. By early fall, physical remnants of the old 1961 NCH building will be replaced with landscaping and parking spaces. The hospital has provided a pictorial mapto see your doctor in sickness or in health in the meantime.