State renews contract with Dartmouth for services at state hospital

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health has been awarded three critical staffing contracts by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to provide mental health and medical care to the state’s acute inpatient psychiatric patients at New Hampshire Hospital and other state facilities, as well as administrative expertise within the department. The Executive Council approved the contracts at a recent Governor and Council meeting.

Dartmouth Health was selected from among four bidders for New Hampshire Hospital, in response to a request for proposals issued by DHHS in July 2021. For more than 35 years the Department of Psychiatry has provided clinical leadership, psychiatric, general medical and psychological services at New Hampshire Hospital in Concord. With the new contract, it will continue this long tradition of serving New Hampshire’s most acutely psychiatrically ill citizens. Under this contract, Dartmouth Health will also provide medical and psychiatric services at the planned New Hampshire Forensic Hospital in Concord and will continue to provide psychiatric services at Glencliff Home in Glencliff.