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...
Dartmouth, D-H Expected to Detail Geisel Restructuring
Hanover — Uncertainty continues regarding the restructuring plan that Dartmouth College is developing for its Geisel School of Medicine, where annual budget deficits had been headed toward $30 million. There is particular worry over the fates of the unspecified number of faculty and staff whose jobs will be eliminated . Some employees may be laid off. Others expect to be hired at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the medical system that is...
Despite Endowment, Challenges Abound
At first glance, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a medical system with net assets of $410 million at the end of last fiscal year, seems an unlikely cavalry to be riding to the financial rescue of a medical school whose parent — Dartmouth College, please don’t call it a university — finished the year with net assets of $5.33 billion. But such simple comparisons don’t provide especially useful benchmarks to outside observers as they watch the...
Airline Plan Suggests No Pilot Privacy
Pilots would lose privacy protection for health records and airlines would need insurance when the employees lose their license under a proposal from the French air-safety agency that investigated the deliberate crash of a Germanwings passenger jet into a mountainside. Authorities should re-examine how pilot health is monitored and assessed, and consider forcing medical practitioners to share any concerns with airlines in instances...
Business Notes: Feb. 14, 2016
Bethel — GW Plastics last week announced the completion of a major expansion of its Dongguan, China, facilities. The project more than doubled the size of the plant, and the new 125,000-square-foot facility will permit the company to streamline its tooling, molding and medical device assembly operations while leaving room for contract manufacturing growth, the company said in a news release. The company plans to enhance its Asia...
