"The Concord Enterprise", on December 18, "provided details that a gift of land and money had been given to the New England Deaconess Association.The article stated, “The gift comes through Mr. Emerson, whose wife was recently as inmate of the Brookline hospital, and who made an offer to the institution before her death which recently occurred ... the hospital will be known as the Concord hospital and will be run on much the same principles as the Deaconess Hospital in Longwood, where patients who cannot afford to pay are taken free, and those who are able to pay do so."