When one first meets Laura Nelson, you’re immediately struck by her enthusiasm and good cheer. And once you engage her in conversation, you almost forget that this meeting is taking place in an infusion suite on the first floor of the Elliot Hospital.
Manchester Ink Link is pleased to enter into a news-sharing collaboration with the New Hampshire Challenge, an organization dedicated to raising awareness around disability issues in our state.
Until the past decade or so, cost details on health care – something which consumes about a quarter of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – remained largely hidden from view.
As the days of summer wane and kids of all ages head off — or back — to school, there is a lot going on in the local health care environment in the city, region and across the state
Citing potential “substantial saving for federal tax payers,” NH Governor Chris Sununu sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar III Monday, requesting that HHS extend Demonstration Project #11-W-00298/1.
The 76-year-old Sevigny, who will leave his post in mid-June, spent a recent spring morning with Medical Matters discussing his time at the helm of the New Hampshire Department (NHID) and some of initiatives his team has tackled over the past two decades.
We’ll be looking for two key components among those applying for grants,” says Harvard’s Susan Walsh. “The programs should be sustainable and have measurable results.”
Child Health Services provides care for more than 6,500 New Hampshire children in need each year.
Bedford-based Benevera Health is taking a team approach to bigger picture health via an innovative insurer-provider collaboration to better manage its shared population.
With the demise of Minuteman Health at the end of the 2017, two insurance co-ops had now exited the market leaving Anthem, which absorbed much of the former Minuteman book of business, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Ambetter as carriers on the state’s health insurance marketplace in 2018.
More than 200 leaders from across the state converged on Southern New Hampshire University’s Mara Hall on March 28 for a Dartmouth-Hitchcock hosted forum entitled The Real Cost To Business: The Mental Health and Addiction Crisis.
Doug Dean spoke with Medical Matters recently on a number of topics, among them the current combination agreement with Southern New Hampshire Health trends in health care in the state, the growing health care needs of NH’s aging population and the failed Optima Healthcare merger in the late 1990s.