New Hampshire’s ticks are having a moment, prompting the state’s scientists to come together in hopes of better understanding, and combating, the problem. An $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support an investigation into how factors like climate, habitat, wildlife, and more affect the parasites and the diseases they spread, according to […]
After a monthslong review, the Charitable Trusts Unit concluded that North Country Healthcare, which operates three hospitals in rural northern New Hampshire, breached its fiduciary duties when it fired Weeks Medical Center President Michael Lee and recommended a set of corrective actions to regain community trust. The Charitable Trusts Unit, an agency within the Attorney […]
After the New Hampshire House sidelined an effort to require private insurers to cover wraparound mental health services, the Senate made a last ditch effort to keep it alive. Senate Bill 498 would’ve required insurance companies to cover a state-run program called FAST Forward that offers wraparound services — a more holistic form of mental […]
After a New Hampshire House committee voted to kick the can down the road on whether to compel insurance companies to cover wraparound mental health services for children, Gov. Kelly Ayotte was “outraged.” “I was incredibly flabbergasted and disappointed by the House vote on this,” Ayotte told reporters in her office following the vote on […]
The New Hampshire Senate voted Thursday not to eliminate the state’s hepatitis B requirement — the latest setback for the State House’s Republican anti-vaccine contingent. Instead, senators sent House Bill 1719, sponsored by Republican Rep. Kelley Potenza, to interim study, a maneuver that sidelines the bill until at least next year. HB 1719 was one […]
$1 billion over 5 years: Director of NH’s new rural health program rolls out goals for federal funds
Donnalee Lozeau, director of GO-NORTH, said her philosophy in distributing the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government is giving New Hampshire to spend on its struggling rural healthcare system will be about long-term investments, not short-term fixes. “It’s not just about spending the money,” she told the crowd at a New Hampshire Public […]
Williamsport, Pa. — A woman hoping to challenge to Congressman Dan Meuser brought her fight to Williamsport this weekend to raise funds.
MEREDITH — New Hampshire’s healthcare community has endured extraordinary and unimaginable circumstances over the last few years. As one of th…