At the Hospitals: March 20, 2016
OB/GYN Doctor Joins Women’s Care Center Lebanon — Dr. Rebecca Evans has joined the Women’s Care Center at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. The center now has four physicians and three midwives. Evans is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame in...
At the Hospitals: Feb. 7, 2016
Local Hospitals Release Community Health Needs Assessment Access to mental health care and affordable health insurance, prescription drugs prices, heroin and the misuse of pain medications are among the Upper Valley ’s most pressing health concerns, according to a report by local hospitals. The 2015 Community Health Needs Assessment is based on focus groups and surveys conducted over a five-month period last year by...
At the Hospitals: Dec. 13, 2015
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D-H Threatens Suit Over Vt. Medicaid Payments
Lebanon — Dartmouth-Hitchcock has threatened to sue the state of Vermont for using what it regards as a discriminatory payment schedule and denying the large medical care network millions of dollars in compensation for care for low-income people covered by a state-federal health insurance program. The rate at which Vermont reimburses D-H for such care is “not only unfair but it also threatens the sustainability of D-H as a provider to...
At the Hospitals: July 19, 2015
VA Names Mental Health Chief White River Junction — Dr. Brett Rusch has joined White River Junction VA Medical Center as chief of mental health and behavioral science service, as well as an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. For the past six years, Rusch was director of inpatient and intensive outpatient mental health services at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison,...
