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Federal funding for a program that reimburses health providers for COVID testing, treatment and vaccines for people without insurance has run out. Meanwhile, the bipartisan bill in the U.S. Congress to provide more COVID funding does not include more...

Over the past month, New Hampshire’s state-managed COVID vaccination sites, testing centers, and some mobile vaccine teams have been decommissioned. The wind-down of this COVID infrastructure is part of a long-standing plan to shift the pandemic...

“Our question shouldn't be: How do we get through the next three months or six months or a year?” said Anne Sosin of Dartmouth College, “But rather: How do we make the investments to have a public health infrastructure for the future?"

Funding for a key federal program has run out. But in New Hampshire, there's another program uninsured Granite Staters can apply for.

Listen to the broadcast version of this story. Gallagher learned about a waitlist overseen by Androscoggin Valley Hospital through word of mouth: her sister-in-law called to say they’d been added to the list after calling with a question about scheduling. “I called the number that my sister-in-law had called, and this person says, ‘Well I’ll put you on the list, and we’ll call you if there’s a place.’ So I’m kind of waiting, at this point, to see how this works out,” Gallagher...

WHITEFIELD — With the recent inception of COVID-19 vaccine administration throughout the United States, questions have arisen as to when North Country residents can anticipate having the option of being vaccinated. As they have since the pandemic’s start, North Country Healthcare  and its affiliates have worked closely with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services and Bureau of Infectious Disease Control immunization Pprogram, fo...

North Country Healthcare hospitals receiving COVID-19 vaccines December 20, 2020REGION — As part of North Country Healthcares (NCH) commitment to best ensure the health and wellbeing of our communities, NCH hospitals (Androscoggin Valley Hospital, Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital, Weeks Medical Center) anticipate receiving a limited supply of COVID-19 vaccinations as early as this week, with administration to begin shortly thereafter. New Hampshire received a limited, initial allotment of th...

• Dec 10, 2020 Scroll down for an interactive version of the chart above, which shows the growing share of COVID-19 patients occuping New Hampshires inpatient beds. New Hampshire hospitals are seeing more COVID-19 patients than at any other point in the pandemic. As of Thursday morning, 248 confirmed COVID-19 patients were hospitalized statewide, according to the latest numbers from the New Hampshire Hospital Association. Another 39 patients suspected of having COVID-19, though not ...