
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a 353-bed tertiary care hospital on the Hanover-Lebanon town line, has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as “One of the Top 50 Hospitals in the Nation for Cancer,” by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine as “one of the nation’s “Most Wired - Small and Rural’ hospitals,” and in 2003 was the first New Hampshire facility to be recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a “Magnet Hospital,” for nursing excellence. DHMC is part of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, a network of more than 900 primary and specialty care physicians located throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. The Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) is New Hampshire’s only children’s hospital and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center is New Hampshire’s only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center.
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon is a 32-bed community hospital that specializes in a family-centered approach in 30-plus specialties and clinical areas. It has more than 60 physicians on staff and a 50-bed nursing home. The area features a number of individual and group family practices, the Good Neighbor Clinic in White River Junction, which assures quality medical care for those without the means to pay, and the Red Logan Dental Clinic, which offers the same for those unable to pay for dental work.