At the Hospitals: Dec. 20, 2015
Director of PTSD Center Honored White River Junction — Paula Schnurr, executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, received the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Lifetime Achievement Award last month at the organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans. The society’s highest honor, the award is given to someone who has made “great lifetime contributions to...
People in Business: Nov. 15, 2015
Bob Seidler, of Hanover, has joined Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty and will be working from the company’s Hanover office. Seidler has many years of experience in real estate investing, including renovations and new constructions of residential and commercial properties in Massachusetts, Florida, Vermont and New Hampshire. He began investing while in graduate school in Boston by purchasing and renovating or remodeling...
Consumer Confidential: Firms Should Stop Pretending That High-Profile Mergers Will Benefit Consumers
The script has become a familiar one for consumers. First a company announces that it’s acquiring a rival firm. Both businesses declare this will be great for customers. Federal regulators, in most cases, then say that they’ve looked closely at the deal and don’t see any problem. The buyout goes through and — what do you know? — prices eventually go up and the quality of the product or service shows no improvement. It makes you...
At the Hospitals: April 19, 2015
TDI Receives $800,000 For Neonatal Care Study Lebanon — The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice has received a three-year, $800,000 grant from the Anthem Foundation for a nationwide study of neonatal intensive care, the first of its kind, researchers say. “Very few published reports have examined the quality and efficiency of medical care across the full range of newborns and care settings,” Dr. David Goodman,...
At the Hospitals: April 19, 2015
TDI Receives $800,000 For Neonatal Care Study Lebanon — The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice has received a three-year, $800,000 grant from the Anthem Foundation for a nationwide study of neonatal intensive care, the first of its kind, researchers say. “Very few published reports have examined the quality and efficiency of medical care across the full range of newborns and care settings,” Dr. David Goodman,...
