Dartmouth warns of longer waits in ED - NH Business Review
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is warning patients with “less pressing” health concerns to expect extended wait times in the ED due to overcrowding.
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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is warning patients with “less pressing” health concerns to expect extended wait times in the ED due to overcrowding.
LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has been operating at 110% of its capacity for several weeks amid a surge of respiratory viruses and short staffing, and as it continues to be difficult to discharge patients to lower levels of care, such...
LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has been operating at 110% of its capacity for several weeks amid a surge of respiratory viruses and short staffing, and as it continues to be difficult to discharge patients to lower levels of care, such...
Smaller hospitals in the Upper Valley also are busy, in part because when beds aren’t available at DHMC, small hospitals in the area must find other beds for patients who need the higher level of care available at an academic medical center.