COVID-19: More cases found at Sullivan County, Hanover nursing homes
Modified: 1/12/2021 9:56:45 PM
UNITY COVID-19 cases at senior living facilities in the Upper Valley continue to climb.
An outbreak at Sullivan County Health Care in Unity has grown to include 20 people, according to Ted Purdy, the nursing home’s administrator. Since Jan. 5, 11 residents and nine workers have tested positive for the virus, Purdy said in an email. Additional testing of both residents and workers took place on Tuesday, he said.
Residents’ symptoms have ranged from none to coughs, nausea and elevated temperatures, Purdy said.
Four employees of Kendal at Hanover have recently tested positive for the virus, spokesman Jeff Roosevelt said in an email. Two Kendal employees also tested positive in September. So far, no residents at the facility off Lyme Road have tested positive, Roosevelt said.
D-HH and West Health bring geriatric emergency care and telehealth services to rural hospitals
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (D-HH), New Hampshire s only academic health system serving nearly 2 million patients across northern New England, and West Health, a family of nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations working to lower health care costs to enable successful aging, are bringing accredited geriatric emergency care and, for the first time, providing older adults in the region with specialized telehealth services from an accredited emergency department. Northern New England is home to one of the fastest-growing senior populations in the country.
D-HH and West Health announced today that they will provide telehealth services and geriatric emergency department (GED) training, education and other resources to four rural hospitals in a two-phase hub and spoke approach. The first two hospitals to receive telemedicine support from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) will be Alice P
D-H keeps ‘A’ financial rating
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Modified: 12/24/2020 3:47:30 PM
LEBANON The credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has reaffirmed its ‘A’ rating for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Obligated Group, but downgraded its outlook from “positive” to “stable” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news release.
The D-H group includes Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon and associated clinics in southern New Hampshire; Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon; Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H.; Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor; and New London Hospital.
Fitch, in its Dec. 23 release, pointed to the D-H health system’s “strong market position” and “high acuity patient mix” as reasons for affirming the ‘A’ rating, demonstrating that the agency has confidence in D-H’s ability to recover from the pandemic and see through its capital spending plans.
Stimulus funds boost Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system
In this May 17, 2011 file photo, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is seen in Lebanon, N.H. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) Toby Talbot
Published: 12/23/2020 6:35:38 PM
After a rocky spring when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit and revenue plummeted, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health saw its operating margin climb back into the black for the quarter ending Sept. 30 thanks to federal stimulus payments.
Daniel Jantzen, the Lebanon-based health system’s CFO, described its $13.9 million, or 2.2% margin for the first three months of its 2021 fiscal year as a “dramatic recovery” from losses that occurred earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, in a filing with bondholders late last month.
My Turn: As COVID surges, what you do now matters a lot
Published: 12/22/2020 6:10:31 AM
Masks, social distancing, screening for symptoms before work, exposure, isolating, quarantining, these are all terms that will be indelibly part of our memories of 2020.
And as we wind down this tumultuous, tragic year, we can take heart and hope from the fact that vaccinations are starting to take place across the country.
I received my vaccine today, as did friends and colleagues across the state and country this week. It was a powerful moment. This triumph of science is what we needed to break the deep and painful cycle of this pandemic.