Shields Healthcare of Dartmouth, Inc. d/b/a Fall River-New Bedford Regional MRI Center (“Applicant”), with an address of 700 Congress Street, Suite 204, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169, intends to file an application for an amendment to the Notice of Determination of Need issued by the Department of Public Health (Project #5-4887) (the “DoN”). The DoN provided the Applicant with a third magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) unit at St. Luke’s Hospital located at 361 Allen Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Applicant is a member of the Fall River/New Bedford MRI Limited Partnership, a joint venture that also includes Shields Family Equity, LLC, and Southcoast Ventures, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Southcoast Health System, Inc. (“SHS”)), and provides MRI services at St. Luke’s Hospital. The proposed amendment will release the Applicant and Shields Family Equity, LLC from the DoN (“Proposed Project”). The Total Value of the Proposed Project is $2,600,000.  The Applicant anticipates that the Proposed Project will not have a significant increase on prices and will improve access to inpatient MRI services for the Applicant’s existing patient panel.