Communities and Consequences II - Compensation, Health Insurance and Family Medical Leave
Thursday July 15 @ noon
New Hampshire PBS and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health present a series of online interactive screenings and discussions of the new documentary COMMUNITIES & CONSEQUENCES II - Rebalancing NH s Human Ecology. The documentary and companion book are a collaborative project of Demographer Peter Francese, writer and former Agriculture Commissioner Lorraine Stuart Merrill and Filmmaker Jay Childs. NHPBS is the presenting station.
MANCHESTER — New Hampshire Magazine will honor the recipients of its 2021 Excellence in Nursing Awards during a virtual ceremony from 5:30-7 p.m. today.
LEBANON Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health will no longer use heavy lead aprons to shield patients from radiation during X-rays because they have been found to provide little to no benefit, according to a news release from the Lebanon-based health.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock ditches lead aprons for X-rays
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: 5/13/2021 4:56:28 PM
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health will no longer use heavy lead aprons to shield patients from radiation during X-rays because they have been found to provide little to no benefit, according to news release from the Lebanon-based health system.
Such shielding also can obscure parts of the body, requiring repeated tests or diminishing the utility of the images the X-rays produce, according to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
“When you receive an X-ray, a small amount of radiation will get to other areas of your body, but this occurs internally; lead will do nothing to block this radiation,” Michael Timmerman, radiation safety officer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, said in the release.
Many of New Hampshire’s nonprofits saw donations surge last year, especially thanks to 2020’s NH Gives, an online event run by the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits that encourages Granite Staters to support their local nonprofits. Last year’s event.