News Digest Health

  • Health network gets $5 million grant for new Warrensburg center - 05/01/12
    New York By: Dave Canfield A $5 million federal grant announced Tuesday will help fund a new Hudson Headwaters Health Network facility in Warrensburg, according to the head of the organization a…Read More
  • CVPH, ECH sign letter of intent - 03/26/12
    New York By: Jeff Meyers A proposed affiliation among Fletcher Allen Health Care, CVPH Medical Center and Elizabethtown Community Hospital could result in many benefits for patients and health-c…Read More
  • Drug scanning technology in use at Saranac Lake hospital - 01/12/12
    New York By: Chris Knight Nurses at Adirondack Medical Center are now using barcode scanning technology to administer medications to their patients. Over the last few months, Adirondack He…Read More
  • Roving telemedicine unit improves care - 12/15/11
    Vermont By: Burlington Free Press Staff Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin and Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, now affiliated as Fletcher Allen Partners, are jointly using a rovi…Read More
  • Franklin Community Health Network officers featured in panel - 12/07/11
    Maine By: Morning Sentinel Staff Rebecca Ryder, president and chief executive officer of Franklin Community Health Network and Gilly Hitchcock, vice chairman of the network's board, will be feat…Read More
  • Vt. again ranked healthiest state, NH 2nd, Maine 8th - 12/06/11
    Northern Forest Region By: The Associated Press The latest national health rankings show that once again Vermont is the healthiest state in the nation. The Portland Press Herald aticle link …Read More
  • IT training center considered for Glens Falls Hospital - 11/26/11
    New York By: Mary Thompson Glens Falls Hospital and city officials are exploring the "notion" of a training center on or near the hospital campus for health care information technology career. …Read More
  • 14 Maine health centers chosen for national pilot program - 10/25/11
    Maine By: Alex Barber Fourteen community health centers in Maine have been chosen to participate in the Advanced Primary Care Practice pilot program created by the Affordable Care Act. “…Read More
  • Rural jobs program looks to doctors and nurses - 08/24/11
    National By: Marie Cusick President Obama unveiled a new jobs initiative for rural America last week. Not targeting roads and bridges, but doctors and nurses. The Innovation Trail's Marie Cusick…Read More
  • Maine researchers to assist Dartmouth in study of genetics, environment - 08/22/11
    Maine By: Associated Press Scientists at the Dartmouth College Medical School are going to use an $11 million grant to work with their colleagues throughout northern New England to study the way…Read More
  • Statewide report to guide health care - 04/21/11
    Maine Maine’s three largest hospital systems have teamed up with the University of New England to release a statewide assessment of health care needs. The 262-page report, released Tuesday and po…Read More
  • UCVH joins Berlin, Lancaster hospitals in new company - 03/17/11
    On February 24, the Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital board of directors authorized a letter of intent directed to Androscoggin Valley Hospital and Weeks Medical Center to enter into a joint-ventured …Read More
  • Will Medicaid cuts force the closure of North Country hospitals, nursing homes? - 02/11/11
    New York By: Brian Mann A panel created by Governor Andrew Cuomo is scrambling to find ways to cut billions of dollars from the cost of New York's Medicaid program. But hospital and nursing home…Read More
  • Carsey researcher explores food 'landscape' of northern NH - 02/11/11
    New Hampshire Accompanied by the steady drumbeat of awareness of healthy eating, a University of New Hampshire doctoral student has explored the availability of fresh food in New Hampshire’s Nort…Read More