The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved New Hampshire’s spending plan for a large tranche of federal money that will go toward rural health initiatives, state officials announced Thursday. New Hampshire received roughly $205 million from the federal government late last year through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program and expects to receive similar […]

After a monthslong review, the Charitable Trusts Unit concluded that North Country Healthcare, which operates three hospitals in rural northern New Hampshire, breached its fiduciary duties when it fired Weeks Medical Center President Michael Lee and recommended a set of corrective actions to regain community trust. The Charitable Trusts Unit, an agency within the Attorney […]

Donnalee Lozeau, director of GO-NORTH, said her philosophy in distributing the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government is giving New Hampshire to spend on its struggling rural healthcare system will be about long-term investments, not short-term fixes. “It’s not just about spending the money,” she told the crowd at a New Hampshire Public […]