A group representing New Hampshire’s hospitals filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a state tax on hospitals — the latest turn in an ongoing dispute over hundreds of millions of dollars in health care funding.
A federal judge says New Hampshire is making good progress toward eliminating wait times for inpatient mental health care.
Judge Landya B. McCafferty is giving the state until the end of next March to end ER boarding, saying those patients should not spend more than six hours in the ER before getting into treatment
Exeter Hospital is delaying plans to end a paramedic intercept program that many area towns rely on, after the New Hampshire attorney general stepped in.
NH AG John Formella said his office is 'carefully reviewing' whether the planned cuts violate the terms of Exeter Hospital’s merger with Beth Israel Lahey Health last year
But a key recruitment program has been halted
Despite the relatively few DACA recipients in the state, New Hampshire immigration attorney Bruno D'Britto said this lawsuit is about more than health care
The backlog of patients in hospital ERs is just one symptom of larger challenges facing New Hampshire’s mental health system
The state may be considering a change at Hampstead Hospital, two years after buying the youth mental health facility and tapping a private company to run it.
Public health leaders say that a voluntary certification program for community health workers would make funding more sustainable.
Lawsuit is seeking to reinstate restrictions FDA relaxed starting in 2016, including reducing medication abortions from 10 weeks of pregnancy to 7
Elliot Hospital in Manchester has launched a Virtual ER service to try and reduce wait times by offering a virtual option. It’s staffed by physicians who can see patients remotely, order a test or X-ray, and refer them to urgent care or the emergency department if needed.
A group of Republican state lawmakers wants to expand parental consent requirements for medical and mental health services provided to children. But multiple health care groups are calling the proposal unnecessary, and warning of unintended consequences.
State officials are asking for help promoting New Hampshire’s Paid Family Medical Leave program, saying not enough people are aware of it despite an ongoing marketing campaign.
Teresa Gladstone, of Concord, lost her grandson Oliver to an overdose in 2020.
A year after New Hampshire rolled out a voluntary paid family and medical leave insurance program, relatively few businesses and workers have signed up.
New Hampshire lawmakers will again consider competing proposals to either protect or restrict abortion rights next year. This will be the second legislative session since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending protections for abortion under the…
New Hampshire’s Supreme Court delivered a win for police-transparency advocates Wednesday, ruling that internal police disciplinary files are subject to disclosure under the state’s public records law. The 4-1 decision is the latest in a series of recent Supreme Court…
The commission deciding how New Hampshire will spend millions of dollars received from a settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors plans to use $9.4 million to reimburse six county corrections departments and one local police department for past expenses related…
DHHS comments there are no plans to resume program in NH
Inadequate staffing at Hampstead Hospital burdens police force, but improvements show promise
New $40m, 24-bed facility to meet 'critical unmet need' in prison system
Hospital takes on food insecurity with creative initiatives
State illegally ‘commandeers’ hospital resources, she rules
Amid closely divided House, it’s unclear what if any bills would pass
Mark McEnnis's battle with the virus nearly killed him
Challengers were defeated in all races they ran
Hospitals see a rise in the number of patients with Covid-19
The Granite State remains alone in New England in not legalizing pot
The vote is a culmination of months of organizing by nurses, fueled by concerns about chronic staffing shortages, burnout and corresponding worries about nurse and patient safety as a result.
After two years of extensive evaluation of various affiliation models, the Littleton Regional Healthcare (LRH) Board of Trustees has chosen Dartmouth Health (DH) as its preferred partner. LRH and DH have signed a letter of intent, which serves as the next step toward LRH joining the Dartmouth Health system.
Educational institutions and hospitals are taking steps to help alleviate New Hampshire’s primary care doctor shortage by trying to expand the pipeline of doctors to help replace those who are leaving.
It’s getting harder for patients to find a doctor as wait times and barriers to access grow
Meet Samii, the mannequin who is bedridden in the AI Simulation Lab, one of the drawing cards to the new $32 million home of the Jean School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Saint Anselm College.
Two for-profit methadone clinics in Derry and Salem are under investigation as part of a statewide initiative looking into unnecessary barriers patients might face when seeking treatment for opioid addiction.
Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Center (BASC) has added a powerful new tool to its orthopedic suite: endoscopic spine surgery.
Lebanon company’s breast cancer locator won the nh tech alliance’s product of the year in 2021
Novo Nordisk has lowered its full-year 2025 sales and operating profit forecasts due to weaker-than-expected growth in its key obesity and diabetes drugs, the Danish drugmaker announced Tuesday. Novo Nordisk employs more than 400 people at its West Lebanon, NH, location.
