TAUNTON, Mass. (WPRI) — Several Taunton residents gathered outside Morton Hospital Tuesday to express their concerns over the facility’s potential closure.

“We’re a city of 60,000 people,” Jamie Kelley said. “Who is going to move here if there’s no hospital?”

Morton Hospital is one of nine facilities on the chopping block for the financially embattled Steward Health Care.

“We need someplace to go for health care,” Jacqueline Fitts said. “Not just my family, but every family in this community.”

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