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By PATRICK ADRIAN

WEST LEBANON — A name-brand fitness center will be joining the bevy of chain restaurants and retailers that occupy the city’s busiest commercial corridor. Planet Fitness, a health club franchise with over 18 million members and 2,500 locations...

LEBANON — The Lebanon Police and Fire departments are scheduled to hold an American Red Cross Blood Drive next week at the American Legion Post 22.The blood drive is set for Wednesday, Jan. 17, 12 to 5 p.m. at 189 Mechanic St. in Lebanon.The American...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A free adult dental day is scheduled to take place on Friday, Feb. 9.Little Rivers Health Care, Red Logan Dental Clinic, Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center, volunteer providers and the Vermont Department of Health are...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Vermont Department of Mental Health is seeking input into the idea of implementing the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics model in Vermont. The clinics provide holistic care for people of all ages and aim to...

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 JIM KENYON

With 2022 wrapping up, I figure it’s time to share my wish list for the Upper Valley in 2023. Here goes: Enough with the Norwich Farm Foundation’s $1.25 million fundraising campaign to “Bring the Cows Back.” The Upper Valley already has Billings Farm...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Driven largely by staffing expenses, costs are outstripping revenues at Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s largest private employer, according to filings with bondholders last week.The Lebanon-based Dartmouth Health saw a $22.1 million loss,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEWPORT — Mark Murphy recalls once asking his supervisor at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan what was burning when he noticed a nearby cloud of smoke.Murphy, 38, who did two deployments with the Air Force between 2006 and 2010, said the supervisor...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — At the end of the second week of fall term classes, roughly 500 members of the Dartmouth College community gathered the evening of Sept. 23 in front of Baker-Berry Library to listen to the college’s president, chaplain and student leaders...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — About 50 employees of Dartmouth Health in Lebanon are slated to become employees of Conifer Health Solutions, a Texas-based company that oversees DH’s billing and collections, starting late next month.The move, scheduled to take effect Oct....

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Nine new rooms in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s emergency department in Lebanon are expected to open to patients on Thursday, according to a news release.The project, built over 16 months and expected to cost a total of $9.9 million,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — Valley Regional Hospital is one of just five hospitals in New Hampshire that are not yet a part of larger health systems, but that may be about to change.Late last month, Claremont’s Valley Regional announced it had signed a letter of...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — In an ideal world, everyone would have a primary care provider they know and trust and see regularly.But an ongoing workforce shortage in primary care means that many people in the Upper Valley are struggling to find that trusted provider,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — An Instagram page run by a registered nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon offers an unusual glimpse into the hospital’s culture and climate.The nurse started the page, called dhmc_memes, almost a year ago as a creative...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CANAAN — Mascoma Community Health Center will suspend its dental services beginning July 30, following the departure of the center’s current dentist, according to a news release from the nonprofit’s board.The suspension of services leaves about 1,500...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock clinics in the Upper Valley are not currently accepting new primary care patients. Though some other affiliates of the Dartmouth Health system continue to have openings.“Right now, we are taking a pause on scheduling new...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

RANDOLPH — Following the retirement of a dentist early this year, there is no longer a dental practice in Randolph that accepts new patients covered by Medicaid, further exacerbating problems with access to oral care for some of the state’s least...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Police and school investigations are ongoing after three Hanover High School students were hospitalized after taking pills that school officials believe they acquired from another student.All three students who were hospitalized reported...