Mass General nixed a deal to acquire New Hampshire-based Exeter Health Resources after the state's attorney general sought to block the agreement over concerns of competition.
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January 15, 2021
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced that it will end efforts to acquire and affiliate with Exeter Health Resources, according to a Seacoastonline
article by Alexander LaCasse. Wednesday’s news forecloses the possibility of a merger, which would have brought New Hampshire’s Exeter Hospital under the same leadership as the nearby Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover.
Reportedly, MGH told Exeter that it was discontinuing its merger pursuit at the beginning of December. Since then, the parties have spent time managing and maintaining their affiliation until MGH formally opted out of the deal.
Speaking about MGH’s dropped bid, Mark Whitney, Exeter’s vice president of strategic planning, expressed frustration. According to Seacoastonline,
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Seacoast frontline healthcare workers get first COVID vaccines
By Karen Dandurant
One of the people giving the inoculations was nurse practitioner Leslie Gurrisi.
“I am so excited to be involved in this,” Gurrisi said. “This is a historic moment. I will be getting my vaccine as soon as I can. We need this pandemic to end and I think this is the beginning of that.”
Gurrisi said they would give 48 doses on Wednesday and will begin the next round Thursday morning. The Pfizer vaccine arrived at Exeter Hospital Tuesday, a day after arriving in New Hampshire. On Friday, it became the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the FDA.
COVID vaccine arrives at Exeter Hospital
By Karen Dandurant
EXETER The first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the first approved in the United States, arrived at Exeter Hospital late Tuesday afternoon. Staff members who are at high risk will be inoculated beginning Wednesday.
Deanna King, registered pharmacist, and director of the pharmacy at Exeter Hospital, and Neil Meehan, chief physician executive at Exeter Health Resources, took possession of the first shipment, 295 vials, each holding five vaccines.
“I feel so excited having them actually be here,” said King. “We are scheduling appointments for the clinics to begin tomorrow. We have tapped our non-clinical nurses, from places like finance, coding and quality care who will help set up the clinics.”