Littleton Regional Healthcare (LRH) recently announced it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Dartmouth Health (DH) to pursue affiliation with the healthcare system. Per the LOI, DH’s strong commitment to providing high-quality, accessible care closely aligns with LRH’s mission, vision and values, making it the clear choice following a two-year, extensive evaluation process led by LRH’s Board of Trustees. A Community Listening Session will take place on Wednesday, October 22 at 5:00pm at Littleton Regional Hospital, 600 St. Johnsbury Road, Littleton. The event will include remarks from Ashley Garrison, Chair of the LRH Board, Robert Nutter, President and CEO of LRH, and Dr. Joanne Conroy, President and CEO of Dartmouth Health. This public forum will provide community members and LRH patients the opportunity to ask questions and learn more about how the proposed partnership will strengthen access to exceptional healthcare across the region. For more information and to register for the listening session, visit: littletonhealthcare.org/affiliation.
About Littleton Regional Healthcare
Littleton Regional Healthcare (LRH) is a non-profit, 25-bed Critical Access Hospital located in Littleton, New Hampshire. LRH has been providing quality, compassionate, and accessible healthcare for communities in New Hampshire’s North Country and the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont since 1907. Serving more than 60,000 people annually, LRH provides a broad range of health-related services, from primary to specialty care and inpatient and outpatient hospital-based services. LRH is the region’s only designated Level III Trauma Center and serves as a referral destination in the North Country. LRH’s leadership in rural health innovation is complemented by its role as a major local employer and economic anchor. With over 500 dedicated employees, LRH is recognized for fostering a well-trained workforce, which is critical to regional care delivery.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 30 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Matt Cookson
(603) 767-1247 or media@lrhcares.org
Audra Burns
(603) 494-2179 or audra.burns@hitchcock.org
