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NH mental health leader present for Biden’s State of the Union speech
02-09-2023 7:15 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Hearing President Joe Biden address mental health to the entire nation was an important night for Susan Stearns.“Each of us can be ambassadors and have a role to play in dispelling stigma, and ensuring folks hang on to hope, seek the care that they...


Providers say Medicaid rates add to ‘crisis’
02-02-2023 5:32 PM

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Health care providers in New Hampshire are pushing for a major increase in Medicaid rates this year, saying it would help them address increasingly dire staff shortages.During a hearing Wednesday, health care leaders told lawmakers that the...


‘System is broken’: Mental health centers seek $30 million to add workers, bolster treatment
02-01-2023 2:37 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has spent millions to expand mental health treatment in the last two years. Yet those who need it are still waiting. In emergency rooms, some for days. At home for a mobile crisis team that’s an hour-plus away. For a counseling appointment....


In New Hampshire, 16% of police officers are trained to handle mental health emergencies
01-21-2023 5:00 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Just a fraction of the state’s police officers have completed training that is considered the “gold standard” for law enforcement to better respond to mental health emergency calls.About 16% of all 2,900 sworn police officers in New Hampshire have...


Analysis finds Medicaid expansion a boon for public health, workforce, hospitals
01-20-2023 4:13 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Lawmakers must decide this year whether to continue spending millions each year to provide an estimated 50,000 to 90,000 additional low-income people Medicaid health coverage through its Medicaid expansion program. The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy...


Proposal would compensate Hampstead for property taxes lost due to state’s hospital purchase
01-18-2023 12:14 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state’s purchase of Hampstead Hospital last year for a behavioral health campus cost the town of Hampstead nearly $178,000 in annual property taxes. An item before the Executive Council Wednesday would replace that full amount with federal money...


DHMC runs at 10% over capacity amid staffing shortage and high rates of respiratory viruses
01-17-2023 3:20 PM

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...


Federal health care enrollment ends Sunday
01-13-2023 6:20 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Individuals and families have just a few days left before the Jan. 15 deadline to sign up for free or low-cost health insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace. Insurance officials have been concerned that the public does not know more...


Family’s call for help leads to death of beloved Gilford teen
01-06-2023 12:00 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Mischa Fay got his boating license when he was 15 and would often take solo sailing trips around Lake Winnipesaukee. He was a “Star Wars” fanatic who was an encyclopedia of trivia. Like a lot of 17-year-olds, he loved pizza and hot sauce.More than...


Reauthorization of expanded Medicaid seen as critical to New Hampshire’s mental health crisis, state’s workforce
01-04-2023 5:25 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Amber MacQuarrie, a single mother of two from Dublin was running an infant daycare when she started experiencing extreme lung pain in 2018.After running tests, doctors concluded that the pain was caused by a cyst the size of a fist and she required...


Year in review: Mental health sees some progress
12-28-2022 3:48 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

This year, the state’s efforts to address its inadequate mental health system made progress with expanded facilities and 24/7 assistance programs, but experts say much more work needs to be done to remedy a shortage of psychiatric and behavioral...


Dartmouth assesses after deaths cast pall over start of fall term
10-03-2022 7:52 PM

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...


Plan to build new secure psychiatric facility in Concord moving ahead
06-30-2022 5:27 PM

By DAVID BROOKS

A secure facility for 24 patients with mental illness could be operating alongside New Hampshire Hospital in Concord within two years, although many details remain to be worked out.The state will present an online update Thursday night at 6 p.m. about...


Lawsuit accuses Dartmouth-Hitchcock of mismanaging retirement plans
03-28-2022 6:27 PM

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

A class-action lawsuit filed last week against Dartmouth-Hitchcock alleges the Lebanon-based health care system mismanaged as much as $1.9 billion in employees’ retirement funds.In the complaint, filed in federal court in Concord on March 18, the...


One year after purchase by Concord Hospital, head of LRGH stepping down
03-14-2022 11:18 PM

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

A year after Concord Hospital bought Lakes Region General Healthcare, the head of the Franklin and Laconia hospitals has announced his departure, effective at the end of the month. Kevin Donovan was the president and CEO of Lakes Regional General...


New partnership between Concord Hospital and NEC aims to help nursing shortage
02-03-2022 5:24 PM

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

In another attempt to bolster a thinning workforce of nurses, Concord Hospital announced a partnership with New England College that will allow nursing students to be hired during their training.Students enrolled in this program will spend about a...


SHOTS FIRED: Police are tasked with responding to mental crises. The results can be disastrous for officers and callers alike. 
12-20-2021 2:19 PM

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Last summer, Kevin O’Reilly sat around the Meredith police station with other officers and talked about a trend they noticed on the local news.Stories of police shootings, specifically those that involved someone in a mental health crisis, seemed to...


What to know: Watchman for atrial fibrillation
12-09-2021 10:58 AM

Dr. Adam Chodosh discusses atrial fibrillation and the Watchman procedure, a treatment alternative to traditional blood thinners for certain patients.What is atrial fibrillation?Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is an irregular quivering, and sometimes...


His parents brought him for urgent psychiatric help. Then, he waited in the emergency room for nearly a month. 
11-07-2021 6:17 PM

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Jeremy Sheppard returned from visiting his son at the emergency room last week to his quaint brick house in Derry. “He’s really depressed, and it’s going not well for him right now,” he told his wife. “Twelve days in isolation will do that.”Sheppard...


Greenfield man shares harrowing tale of beaver attack
09-24-2021 4:39 PM

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man will soon find his story in a wilderness and environmental medical journal after surviving a gruesome attack from a presumably rabid beaver while swimming in a remote Franklin County pond two weeks ago.Mark “Pres” Pieraccini,...

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