CONWAY — One year after launching a service designed to help patients safely navigate the next step in their health-care journey, MaineHealth Memorial Hospital officially opened the new home of its interfacility transport program Tuesday, May 19, with a ribbon cutting.
In late May, Department of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited New Hampshire to promote improved treatment, diagnostics and prevention strategies to reduce the burden of Lyme disease. I applaud Mr. Kennedy’s efforts to improve the much needed advancements in Lyme disease diagnosis…
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, encourages residents and visitors to stay safe from tick and mosquito bites.
The American Red Cross has scheduled the following blood drives in Carroll County:
FRYEBURG, Maine — Mountain View Direct Care, LLC has announced a change in its practice. While it continues to function first and foremost as a direct primary care office, it is opening its doors to non-members for one time visits.
If you have a parent, a grandparent, or a spouse in a New Hampshire nursing home, there’s roughly a one-in-five chance their care is in the hands of a company that filed for bankruptcy this year — and the people who write the rules in Washington have spent the past year making the problem wo…
CONWAY — On Saturday, May 9, 64 runners and walkers took off from the start line of the Whitaker Wander 5k to support White Mountain Community Health Center’s programs that make health care accessible to all in the Mount Washington Valley.
CONWAY — For two students in MaineHealth Memorial’s Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program, the path to a health care career has been anything but typical.
In keeping with my reading great works of literature, I recently read an article in the May/June issue of Good Housekeeping by Shelby Deering titled "Design for Every Mind.” This article discusses how to design home interiors for neurodiverse people, offering advice on organizing spaces, lig…
CONWAY — Some nurses work in hospitals. Others in doctors’ offices. Some work in management and administration. But the nurses at Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice of Carroll County and Western Maine serve a unique role in delivering nursing care to their community, right in their patient…
CONWAY — In a proactive effort to combat the opioid crisis and empower local residents, Carroll County Coalition for Public Health will host a free Naloxone (Narcan) training and overdose prevention workshop at Pope Memorial Library in North Conway.
MANCHESTER — The American Red Cross is urging donors to give blood or platelets now to help hospitals and transfusion centers stay prepared to help all patients. Donors of all blood types and those looking to give for the first time are encouraged to book an appointment in the coming days or weeks.
EFFINGHAM — What and when you eat can directly affect how well you sleep, two facilitators told attendees at a Tea & Talk Time program at Effingham Public Library on Thursday.
CONWAY — Join White Mountain Community Health Center for the fifth annual Whitaker Wander 5k. On Saturday, May 9, at 9 a.m. runners and walkers will wend their way through the beautiful trails of North Conway’s Whitaker Woods. The 5k will be followed by a 1-mile Kids’ Fun Run at 9:45 a.m.
CONWAY — Visiting Nurse Home Care & Hospice of Carroll County and Western Maine is proud to announce Lindsay Knapp, adult program coordinator at the Fryeburg Recreation Department, as the inaugural recipient of the Susan M. Ruka Award for Excellence in Aging and Public Health.