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By PATRICK O’GRADY

CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital is waiting for a decision on a proposed affiliation with Dartmouth Health before beginning construction on a planned 23,800-square-foot medical office building.The Claremont hospital also will embark on a capital...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Fees charged to patients by Upper Valley ambulance services reflect a problematic disparity between the costs of emergency-medical aid and the reimbursements paid out by insurers, according to first responders.On Monday, for example, the...

By RAY COUTURE

HANOVER — Cheers from the rider’s tent and buzzing dragonflies greeted the Prouty Ultimate bicyclists as they crossed the finish line at Frances C. Richmond Middle School on Friday afternoon.The 42nd annual Prouty, a fundraiser that brings in millions...

WOODSTOCK — The Ottauquechee Health Center has been closed since Monday evening due to a lack of clean water and sewage treatment in Woodstock following flooding of the Ottauquechee River earlier in the week. The clinic, which belongs to Mt. Ascutney...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., has become the newest member of the Dartmouth Health system, according to a DH news release.The agreement, formalized on July 1, makes the Bennington hospital the sixth to join the...

By SARAH MEARHOFF

Defying the predictions of abortion advocates, providers and state lawmakers, the number of out-of-state patients who traveled to Vermont to obtain abortions did not increase, but in fact dropped, in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned...

LEBANON — A research team at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is recruiting participants for a study comparing the effectiveness of an at-home, stool-based test with a colonoscopy in finding colorectal cancer and large colorectal polyps.The study,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — In spite of an ongoing national shortage of some generic cancer drugs, Dartmouth Health, which provides cancer care in the Twin States, is not facing an acute shortage at least for now, officials said.According to the last update DH’s drug...

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Springfield Hospital is slated to get more than $2.3 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds as reimbursement for personal protective equipment, medical supplies and contract labor related to the hospital’s response to...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WINDSOR — In spite of Jill Lord’s retirement earlier this year following three decades at Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center, her influence on the Windsor community is ongoing.She retired from her position of director of community health at the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — A former Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital nurse from Windsor will plead guilty to federal charges she pilfered drugs while working at the Lebanon hospital but will avoid immediate jail time under plea agreement reached with prosecutors.Amy...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — With $2 million, the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Cancer Center are launching a new Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence on the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus in Lebanon.The new center, which will...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — As part of a restructuring effort to address a budget deficit, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics are laying off 75 workers and eliminating about 100 vacant positions, according to a message Dartmouth Health’s...

By FRANCES MIZE

LEBANON — As tracts of forest are charred by historic wildfires in eastern Canada, smoke from the blazes has officials from New Hampshire and Vermont warning of health impacts in the Upper Valley through Wednesday and perhaps intermittently throughout...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WINDSOR — Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center’s CEO is leaving his post in August to take over the leadership of Cheshire Medical Center, another Dartmouth Health member, in Keene, N.H., according to a DH news release.Dr. Joseph Perras has held...

LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has a new chief nursing officer, according to a Dartmouth Health news release.Tracy Galvin, who started May 30, comes to DHMC in Lebanon from the 345-bed Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington,...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Gavin Dubois sometimes doesn’t have the words to express how he feels. But when he picks up a pair of drumsticks, he can read his emotions as clearly as notes on a sheet of music. Amid the sounds of the snare, the melodies of his marimba, his rage...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — The financial picture for Dartmouth Health appears to be improving a bit, according to a recent filing with bondholders.While the Lebanon-based health system continued to lose money in the third quarter of its fiscal year, which ended March...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — Attendees at a recent public hearing on a proposed union between Dartmouth Health and Valley Regional Hospital had a fundamental question: Should an affiliation occur, who would make decisions about the Claremont hospital’s future?“After...