At the Hospitals: Jan. 17, 2016
Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program Receives Grant to Create ‘Toolkit’ Lebanon — Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Perinatal Addiction Treatment Program has received a $127,000, three-year grant from the March of Dimes New England Chapter to improve the quality and safety of care provided to pregnant women with identified substance use disorders. The money will be used to develop and test an “evidence-based toolkit” for maternity care...
At the Hospitals: Jan. 3, 2016
Alice Peck Day Adopts Electronic Registration System Lebanon — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital has adopted an electronic patient registration system. Patients arriving for appointments at APD’s outpatient clinics now check themselves in using a digital tablet provided by Phreesia, a health care software company. The tablet, which has a wireless connection, is used to collect insurance updates, co-pays, outstanding balances and...
At the Hospitals: Sept. 27, 2015
PTSD Center Official Receives Career Award White River Junction — Jessica Hamblen, acting deputy executive director and deputy for education with the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD in White River Junction, has been selected to receive the David M. Worthen Award for Career Achievement in Educational Excellence. It is the highest award given by the Veterans Health Administration to recognize outstanding...
At the Hospitals: June 21, 2015
$3.4 Million Grant Designed to Help Rural Veterans White River Junction — A nurse at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction and a nursing professor at a Boston graduate school have received $3.4 million to improve health care for rural veterans served by the medical school. The grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affairs was awarded to Brant Oliver, of the MGH Institute of Health...
At the Hospitals: March 29, 2015
VA Police Officers Honored White River Junction — Several employees at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction have received national Veterans Affairs police awards. John Richardson was named 2014 police chief of the year, and Jason Brown was named Small Facility Police Officer of the Year. Steven Bethel received the Small Facility Lead Officer of the Year award, and Michael McGee, the Small Facility Supervisory...
