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HANOVER — As of Tuesday, Dartmouth College no longer requires students and employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to have an approved exemption, according to a Tuesday update from the college’s provost and executive vice president.The college...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NORWICH — Mary Irene Moore, known as Irene, lived a quiet existence in Norwich before memory issues required that she move into a nursing home about a decade ago.She first lived in the now-shuttered Brookside Health and Rehabilitation Center in White...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Masks are coming off within days at several health care facilities across the Upper Valley.As of Monday, April 10, masks will be optional for people at Dartmouth Health facilities who don’t have respiratory symptoms, according to DH’s...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

ENFIELD — State Rep. Joshua Adjutant, D-Enfield, has stepped down from his position after incurring a head injury last week at work as a security officer at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.Reached by phone on Tuesday, Adjutant, 28, said...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Hanover Terrace Health and Rehabilitation Center has been faulted for failing to prevent or properly address abuse that contributed to the painful death of a resident in January.State inspectors found that the facility on Lyme Road put...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CANAAN — Leaders of the Mascoma Community Health Center and a Franklin, N.H.-based federally qualified health center are dusting off a partnership plan that was shelved in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The plan would make the Mascoma clinic on...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — The New Hampshire Executive Council on Wednesday approved a $1 million contract for five new involuntary psych beds at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Department of Health and...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The nonprofit HIV/HCV Resource Center is scheduled to hold a free Hep C and HIV testing clinic at the Upper Valley Haven on Wednesday, March 29.The event also will include free food and drink, and a doctor will be available to...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The White River Junction VA Medical Center is scheduled to host a PACT Act claims and eligibility assistance event on March 31 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the VA Medical Center’s Freedom Building.The event will offer Veterans...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — As hospitals throughout the region continue to struggle to meet demand for health care services, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is preparing to open additional beds in a new $150 million patient pavilion in May.The expansion at the...

CLAREMONT — The Claremont district office of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services now will be closed through March 15 due to water damage, according to a DHHS news release.The office, located at 17 Water Street, Suite 301, has...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — People in Hartford generally agree that substance use is the top safety concern in town, according to an assessment conducted by the Hartford Community Coalition.Now, the coalition is trying to figure out what to do about...

CLAREMONT — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services office in Claremont will remain closed through Friday, according to a DHHS news release.The office, located at 17 Water Street, Suite 301, has been closed since the extreme cold...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Community Coalition is hosting a community conversation about safety and substance use on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Hotel Coolidge.The Hartford Police Department’s social worker is slated to provide an overview...

NEWPORT — The Richards Free Library in Newport is scheduled to host “The Opioid Epidemic: Where Do I fit In?” in its ballroom later this month.The free event will offer information about harm reduction, opioid overdose, how to use naloxone, also known...

By JOHN LIPPMAN and NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEWPORT — An Upper Valley orthopedic surgeon who is charged with sexually assaulting a patient was refused bail Wednesday and ordered to remain in jail after the prosecutor told the judge that, since police announced the initial charges Tuesday, three...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s largest private employer, has implemented performance improvement plans and a “position review process” at some of its member organizations as it seeks to close a $120 million budget gap by the end of...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital is launching a new diabetes clinic with the help of a $550,000 federal grant.The clinic, which will be embeded in APD’s primary care department, will be staffed with a nurse practitioner who is certified in...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has been operating at 110% of its capacity for several weeks amid a surge of respiratory viruses and short staffing, and as it continues to be difficult to discharge patients to lower levels of care, such...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEWPORT — Three days a week, one of the two operators of Newport’s wastewater treatment system pull samples from the effluent that’s treated there.The samples, which are composites collected over a 24-hour period, then go to either to the New...