Health

Hospital honored for biofuel initiative

Memorial Hospital in North Conway has been named the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Sustainable Business of the Year, in recognition of its switch to a new form of renewable biofuel. Memorial uses an advanced cellulosic biofuel known as…

Monadnock Region named a ‘mentor’ community

Institute for Healthcare Improvement has awarded a grant to Cheshire Medical Center-Dartmouth Hitchcock Keene and the Healthy Monadnock program as part of its SCALE (Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation) initiative. Made possible by a $4.8 million grant from…

NH wellness is declining, costing businesses

Since 2008, Gallup and Healthways, a global well-being solutions provider, have published the annual Well-Being Index. Although the full “State of American Well-Being” for 2014 hasn’t been published yet, they have listed the composite wellness scores of the 50 states…