Greenwich residents have available in their own community an unsurpassed standard of excellence in medical care, emergency services and wellness institutions. They also have ready access to the four-hospital Westchester Medical Center, Danbury, Norwalk and Bridgeport, Connecticut hospitals, internationally acclaimed Yale New Haven and renown hospitals in New York like New York-Presbyterian, Beth Israel, Mount Sinai and Memorial Sloan-Kettering and NYU Medical Center.

An extensive list of physicians practices in Greenwich and they offer the latest advances in treatment as general practitioners and specialists in geriatrics, gynecology, hematology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pediatrics, plastic surgery, podiatry and rehabilitative medicine.

The telephone directory lists 185 physicians in Greenwich and 250 in neighboring Stamford, some of them with offices in both communities. There are also 98 Greenwich-based dentists and 125 in Stamford, plus 15 chiropractors 36 in Stamford. Eight Greenwich doctors appear in Connecticut Magazine's latest two listings of Connecticut's "Top Docs."

Greenwich is served by the nonprofit, 174-bed Greenwich Hospital with 270 physicians and dentists delivering care and in the adjoining community of Stamford the 305-bed Stamford Hospital and its short-term 260-bed St. Joseph Medical Center.

Greenwich Hospital is affiliated with the Yale New Haven Health System. It is also a partner of the Greenwich Emergency Medical Service, an ambulance service known by the acronym GEMS, an independent nonprofit whose vehicles are staffed by paramedics licensed by the state.

The town is also home to a concentration of health and fitness clubs that collectively offer everything from aerobics, ballet and dance to massage, physical therapy, nutrition counseling, personal training, yoga and weightlifting.

For care of the elderly, there is an extensive number of agencies operated by government, nonprofits and the private sector. A focal institution is Greenwich Adult Day Care, providing seniors with medical monitoring, personal care, professionally supervised social activities and therapeutic services.