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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Even as the COVID-19 emergency has ended, Dartmouth Health continues to see as many as 700 outpatients a day via telehealth, which became vital for maintaining access to care during the pandemic, according to the medical director of...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — The City Council on Wednesday is holding a public hearing on a request for the council’s support of two grant applications from an organization seeking to establish a residential addiction treatment facility for mothers and their children in...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — On a recent afternoon in late April, “Felix” lay in a new hospital room in the recently completed patient pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.Short of breath, but in stable condition, Felix was in a bed in the heart and vascular...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

RANDOLPH — Primary care physicians are hard to find. That shortage is among the factors that make it difficult to get an appointment in the Twin States and beyond.“It is truly supply and demand,” said Stuart May, CEO of the Morrisville, Vt.-based...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEW LONDON — Amid a health care work force shortage, Colby-Sawyer College broke ground last week on the planned 20,500-square-foot home for its School of Nursing & Health Sciences.The project is moving forward in spite of a steep escalation in costs...

WEST LEBANON — The Aspen Group, which has a dental clinic on Route 12A in West Lebanon, continues to have problems with its systems following a late April cyberattack, according to a spokeswoman.Most Aspen Dental locations are open and seeing existing...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Good Neighbor Health Clinics, a White River Junction-based nonprofit providing free medical and dental care to people without insurance or other ability to pay, has named a new executive director.Elizabeth R. Austin, an Enfield...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The White River Junction VA Medical Center is scheduled to hold its 13th annual VA2K Walk & Roll event on Wednesday, May 17, beginning at 10 a.m.The community is invited to participate in the VA2K event which includes a...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Springfield Hospital is partnering with Dartmouth Health Connected Care to use three forms of telehealth, according to a news release.The partnership includes the services of TeleNeurology and TelePsychiatry in Springfield...

LEBANON — For the first time since 2018, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon is scheduled to hold an in-person Career Expo on Tuesday from 3 to 7 p.m., according to a news release.The event — which is set to take place in auditoriums A-D —...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — School-based dental clinics in the Upper Valley are ramping up again after hiatuses related to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing challenges.Upper Valley Smiles, a program operated by Lebanon’s Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, is poised to...

CLAREMONT — The New Hampshire Charitable Trusts Unit is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the proposed affiliation between Dartmouth Health and Valley Regional at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 18 in Claremont.The Lebanon-based health system, the...

RANDOLPH — An LGBTQIA+ Health Summit, organized by Pride Center of Vermont, Out in the Open and Outright Vermont, is scheduled to take place at virtually and at Vermont Technical College on Saturday.The event, which is scheduled to run from 8 a.m....

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Health Care and Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vermont, a nonprofit community mental health agency which provides support to people in Windsor and Windham counties, has services available for those who are struggling with...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — In the first two weeks after New Hampshire launched a new Medicaid dental benefit for adults, 75 Medicaid patients called Community Dental Care of Claremont, according to the executive director of the nonprofit that operates the clinic on...

LEBANON — A research team at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is recruiting participants for a study of the long-term effects of COVID-19 on thinking skills and auditory processing in adults who developed and continue to have mental fatigue after...

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health is scheduled to host an online learning series focused on identifying and responding to youth in distress starting Tuesday, May 2. The five-session Project ECHO series runs every other Tuesday from 12 – 1 p.m. through June...

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...