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By ELODIE REED

White River Valley community members will discuss the future of their health care access next Tuesday.That’s after a recent state-commissioned report recommended major reductions in service at four small Vermont hospitals, including Gifford Medical...

BURLINGTON — A New Hampshire doctor who ran a chain of now-shuttered addiction treatment clinics in the Twin States, including one in Grantham, pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute drugs in federal court in Burlington on Monday.Adnan...

By PETER D'AURIA

Last month, a consultant released a sweeping report that recommended big changes for Vermont’s health care system, including “major restructuring” at four community hospitals.The 144-page state-commissioned document lays out in detail a series of...

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health will use a $14 million estate gift to establish new centers for pancreatic care and digestive health at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, as well as a professorship in general surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine. The...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Good Neighbor Health Clinic will offer a free drive-through and walk-up vaccination clinic on Saturday.The clinic will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 19 at 70 North Main Street in White River Junction.The event is open to...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health Advanced Response Team, or DHART, will expand with a recent $6.7 million donation. The money will cover three phases of improvements, including purchasing new vehicles, developing an EMT certification program and...

By DAVID BROOKS

Tens of thousands of New Hampshire seniors will have to find new supplemental health insurance coverage next year because some companies, including Harvard-Pilgrim, Human and Ambetter, are pulling out of the Medicare Advantage business in the...

NEW LONDON — New London Hospital has named the hospital’s interim CEO to the permanent post, following a national search, according to a Tuesday news release.Dr. Lauren Geddes Wirth has been in the interim role since March.She replaced former New...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — During multiple site visits to Lebanon Center in July and August, U.S. regulators reported finding  21 “deficiencies,” where the nursing home failed to meet federal health and safety standards.The deficiencies include administering...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

New Hampshire hospitals are taking steps to conserve IV bags, after flooding from Hurricane Helene knocked out a major manufacturing plant in North Carolina.The Baxter International plant produced around 60% of the nation’s supply of intravenous...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

HANOVER — Leah Farley had been a clinical social worker for 20 years, helping the vulnerable and voiceless, when four years ago she suddenly found herself in that same position.She was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The uncommon...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

RANDOLPH — A report presented last week to the Green Mountain Care Board makes sweeping recommendations for restructuring Vermont’s health care systems and some communities and hospital leaders fear the loss of emergency rooms and inpatient beds, and...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A nonprofit is petitioning the town of Hartford to install an outdoor vending machine that will offer the overdose-reversal medication naloxone and other health resources 24 hours a day.Good Neighbor Health Clinic — a White...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

RANDOLPH — Michael Costa, of Norwich, is set to become the new CEO of Randolph-based Gifford Health Care this fall when current CEO Dan Bennett retires.Costa, currently the CEO of Northern Counties Health Care in St. Johnsbury, Vt., will begin his...

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Parker Tirrell went down after a hard foul in front of goal in the second half of a girls soccer scrimmage on Tuesday night, and she drew a much-needed penalty for her team while down 1-0.Tirrell played for Plymouth Regional High School in a friendly...

HANOVER — Duane Compton, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, announced Monday that he plans to leave that post at the end of June 2025.Compton, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology, has held the leadership position for...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

FAIRLEE — Camp Billings, a sleepaway summer camp on Lake Fairlee, is ending its season early due to a rapidly spreading gastrointestinal virus, camp administrators announced this week.The camp, which serves children ages 8 to 15, informed families on...

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont hospitals are seeking the Green Mountain Care Board’s permission to increase commercial insurance charges and their revenue from patients, an annual process that comes amid widespread concern over hospitals’ financial health.Each year,...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

A group of nurses from North Carolina are urging New Hampshire officials to stop a national healthcare chain from taking over Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, citing their own experience with the company.“The community needs to know what...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Come Jan. 1, the state’s nearly 1,340 physician assistants, the provider many patients see, will no longer have to have a signed “collaboration agreement” with a physician for their entire career. The sponsors of House Bill 1222, which Gov. Chris...