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DHMC opens adolescent medical psychiatry unit to help address ongoing shortage of pediatric mental health beds
The six-bed inpatient unit will provide care to adolescents ages 12 to 17 experiencing mental health crises.

“We’re being measured at the highest standards” – Dartmouth Health trauma programs at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Children’s Hospital at DHMC verified by American College of Surgeons
DHMC and CHaD have the highest level of adult and pediatric trauma center verification in New Hampshire, at Levels I and II, respectively.

How to Protect Yourself and Others From Measles Outbreaks
Measles cases are spiking, but the virus is almost entirely preventable through the MMR vaccine.

Four new Board Trustees elected to Dartmouth Health, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics
The newly elected trustees, all of whom were elected at the end-of-year 2024 meetings, began their terms this month.

Gabriela M. Andujar Vazquez, MD, named Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center hospital epidemiologist
Andujar's position began January 20

Shorter Days Got You Down? It Could Be Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Mental health providers from Cheshire Medical Center and Dartmouth Health reveal tips for living with SAD.

Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center awarded “A” Hospital Safety Grade
Leapfrog assigns grades to general hospitals across the country based on over 30 performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and infections, as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent them.

Dartmouth Health and Geisel receives more than $14 Million estate gift to transform the future of digestive health
This bequest from the late Walter and Carole Young is one of the largest gifts in the history of New Hampshire’s only academic medical center.

Dartmouth Health introduces state-of-the-art CT scanner at Nashua clinic
Siemens Somatom Pro.Pulse CT scanner not available at any other facility in eastern U.S.

Just in time for allergy “peak week,” DHMC launches New England’s only pollen counting station
Samples collected to be used in research by National Allergy Bureau