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NH Business Review
Top executives earned 58 times a median employee
May 4, 2021
The average pay of CEOs at publicly traded companies in New Hampshire went down and average worker pay rose during the pandemic, though, in total, executives still were paid more than 58 times the median worker’s salary, according to proxy statements.
That’s a lower ratio than U.S. companies as a whole, CEO -to-worker pay ratio is over 300-1, as well as lower than the 68-1 ratio recorded among New Hampshire public companies in 2019.
For instance, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, the for-profit hospital chain – which in New Hampshire owns Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Exeter Hospital and Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester – paid its CEO, Samuel N Hazen, $30.4 million, some 556 times the pay of its median worker. It’s too soon to tell nationally how all CEOs have done since the proxies are still coming out, though a recent New York Times article indicate that the pay of a lot of maj
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The Leapfrog Group recently released its spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grades, assessing more than 2,700 U.S. hospitals on how well a facility prevents medical errors and other harm to patients. (Shutterstock)
NEW HAMPSHIRE Several Granite State hospitals received top safety marks while others didn t quite measure up in The Leapfrog Group s annual spring safety grades released last week.
The nonprofit health care watchdog group grades hospitals twice a year, assigning letter grades from A to F based on each hospital s ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
More than 2,700 general, acute-care U.S. hospitals were assessed for Leapfrog s Spring Safety Grades. Among those hospitals, 27 have achieved 19 consecutive A grades in every biannual grading cycle since Leapfrog launched the safety grades in spring 2012.
Published: 4/30/2021 11:18:50 AM
Siobhan Benham became a family nurse practitioner because she wanted to help people when they needed trusted medical care at their most vulnerable moments. She opened her own practice, Hearthside Family Health in Peterborough, because she saw a desperate need for options when it came to affordable access to healthcare.
What she’s found in the three-and-a-half years since Hearthside opened its doors is that residents of the Monadnock region saw a need as well.
“What everybody should have is a primary care provider,” Benham said. “And there are people who really see the value in what we’re doing.”
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CONCORD, NH – On Tuesday, April 27, 2021, DHHS announced 273 new positive test results for COVID-19, for a current PCR test positivity rate of 2.9%. Today’s results include 163 people who tested positive by PCR test and 110 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 2,611 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire.
Several cases are still under investigation. Additional information from ongoing investigations will be incorporated into future COVID-19 updates. Of those with complete information, there are 61 individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 46% being female and 54% being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (69), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (42), Strafford (24), Merrimack (23), Belknap (15), Grafton (14), Coos (11), Carroll (10), Cheshire (10), and Sullivan (5) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (16) and Nashua (13). The county of residence is