APD Works to Revaccinate Children After Mishandling Doses
Lebanon — Upper Valley parents and health care providers continue to respond to the refrigeration lapses that compromised vaccines and prompted a revaccination program for more than 800 young patients at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. The vaccine problems were announced in letters to parents of children who had received care at the hospital’s Robert A. Mesropian Center for Community Care. The letters, which were sent out Jan. 11,...
APD Warns Of Vaccine Mishandling
Lebanon — More than 800 children received improperly refrigerated, and potentially ineffective, vaccinations for polio, hepatitis, measles and other diseases at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital during a 14-month period that ended Oct. 23, the hospital said Wednesday. The affected vaccines were not harmful, but may have offered diminished immunity to recipients, the hospital said. “To date, we have had no reports of any patients...
APD Making Its Pitch
Lebanon — About 20 people showed up for a discussion of the proposed affiliation that would bring Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital into a growing health care system directed by Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Using an abbreviated version of a slide show that had been presented to Alice Peck Day’s employees, described how the hospital would “fit into the network that Dartmouth-Hitchcock is building.” “You have networks and partnerships and...
Alice Peck Day Plans On Building New Clinic
Lebanon — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital plans to proceed with $17 million of development work that will include construction of a new 44,000-square-foot outpatient clinic as well as completion of a set of hospital renovations that began in 2011. “This is just a really exciting project for us that moves us into the future,” the hospital’s chief executive, Sue Mooney, said in an interview Wednesday. The two-story outpatient clinic...
Rotary Club of Lebanon Awards Go to APD Chief, West Lebanon Businessman
Lebanon — A Lebanon hospital president and West Lebanon businessman recently received ethics awards from the Rotary Club of Lebanon. Sue Mooney, president and CEO of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, received the Individual Ethics Award. Curt Jacques, owner of West Lebanon Feed and Supply, received the Business Ethics Award. “This is a special acknowledgment for me, but also for APD,” Mooney said in a news release from the hospital....
