LEBANON Even as the COVID-19 emergency has ended, Dartmouth Health continues to see as many as 700 outpatients a day via telehealth, which became vital for maintaining access to care during the pandemic, according to the medical director of.
LEBANON The New Hampshire Executive Council on Wednesday approved a $1 million contract for five new involuntary psych beds at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Department of Health and.
About 60 people, more than half of them children, showed up last weekend for a puppet show, ice cream, face painting and art kit giveaways to mark the launch of Blake Memorial Library’s summer reading program, according to the puppet show’s.
Advocates hope NH court ruling helps mental health patients waiting in ERs
Modified: 5/20/2021 11:00:11 PM
WEST LEBANON Mental health advocates, lawmakers and providers say they’re hopeful that changes underway to address the persistent problem of long wait times in hospital emergency departments for patients in need of inpatient mental health treatment will make a difference.
“For patients, they hopefully will pretty quickly see a decrease in wait times and rapid admission to inpatient care when needed,” said Ken Norton, the director of the New Hampshire chapter of the nonprofit National Alliance on Mental Illness.
After the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that psychiatric patients being held involuntarily in emergency rooms must be given a chance to contest their detention within three days of their arrival, Gov. Chris Sununu announced at a news conference last Thursday that he was issuing an executive order to try to address the matter.
Newport, N.H., man’s case shows difficulty of accessing mental health care
Dominick Dephillips (Courtesy photograph)
Modified: 12/23/2020 8:40:18 PM
NEWPORT, N.H. Dominick Dephillips’ primary care provider referred him to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center for psychiatric treatment three times this year, but in November the 48-year-old Newport resident got a letter from the Lebanon hospital saying that it couldn’t offer him outpatient services.
The letter, which Dephillips shared with the
Valley News, pointed both to the ongoing challenge Vermont and New Hampshire have in providing outpatient mental health care as well as a “sharp increase in demand for psychiatric and psychological services” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.