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By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — In the first two weeks after New Hampshire launched a new Medicaid dental benefit for adults, 75 Medicaid patients called Community Dental Care of Claremont, according to the executive director of the nonprofit that operates the clinic on...

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health is giving health care providers dental training to help address a coverage gap. The DH Center for Rural Health Equity earned $8,000 from the Northeast Delta Dental Foundation to expand a program that trains health providers...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A free adult dental day is scheduled to take place on Friday, Feb. 9.Little Rivers Health Care, Red Logan Dental Clinic, Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center, volunteer providers and the Vermont Department of Health are...

LEBANON — West Central Behavioral Health has hired an interim chief executive, according to a Monday news release.Alexander J. Horvath will serve as interim president and CEO while the Lebanon-based community based mental health center conducts a...

LEBANON — The New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition is scheduled to host a meeting on Wednesday in Lebanon as part of a statewide series of meetings to gather input from the community on school-based dental programs in the state.The Lebanon meeting is...

WEST LEBANON — The Aspen Group, which has a dental clinic on Route 12A in West Lebanon, continues to have problems with its systems following a late April cyberattack, according to a spokeswoman.Most Aspen Dental locations are open and seeing existing...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — School-based dental clinics in the Upper Valley are ramping up again after hiatuses related to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing challenges.Upper Valley Smiles, a program operated by Lebanon’s Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, is poised to...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

SOUTH ROYALTON — HealthHub now has funds and equipment sufficient to double the dental care it was providing to school children in the White River Valley last year, but instead it has reduced the amount of care it is providing to just 20% of what it...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — Three community mental health agencies serving the Upper Valley received federal grants to expand and sustain their services amid an ongoing workforce shortage and an increase in demand for services following the height of the COVID-19...

By JIM KENYON

Before its 24/7 mobile crisis response team hit the road in January, West Central Behavioral Health reached out to schools, police departments and hospitals to let them know about the one-of-a-kind service available on the New Hampshire side of the...

By JIM KENYON

As a small-town New Hampshire cop in his early 20s, Zack Brock responded to a 911 call about a man who was threatening suicide by jumping into rush-hour traffic on Interstate 93.Brock, the only officer on the scene, was able to talk the man out of...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — West Central Behavioral Health sent out a letter to its adult clients in Lebanon earlier this summer informing them that due to a workforce shortage, people receiving individual therapy were now being asked to join groups instead.“We...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CANAAN — Mascoma Community Health Center will suspend its dental services beginning July 30, following the departure of the center’s current dentist, according to a news release from the nonprofit’s board.The suspension of services leaves about 1,500...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

WELLS RIVER — With more than $1.3 million in federal funding and most required permits in hand, Little Rivers Health Care plans to begin construction on a new dental clinic in the fall and to begin caring for patients there early next year.The clinic...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

RANDOLPH — Following the retirement of a dentist early this year, there is no longer a dental practice in Randolph that accepts new patients covered by Medicaid, further exacerbating problems with access to oral care for some of the state’s least...

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CLAREMONT — West Central Behavioral Health has launched a new program to provide patients in Claremont with medical care along with mental health treatment, according to a news release.West Central, the Lebanon-based nonprofit community mental health...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

CLAREMONT — Nicole Kristl, a 29-year-old Newport, N.H., resident, has lived with various mental health conditions for decades.In spite of her illness and with help from West Central Behavioral Health’s supported employment program, Kristl worked in...

By DAVE CELONE

Surely you know about medical clinics, dental clinics, urgent care clinics and veterinary clinics and what they do. But do you know what happens at a behavioral health care clinic?The New Hampshire Community Behavioral Health Association has 10...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — A long-anticipated program to offer in-person support to people experiencing mental health and substance use crises in New Hampshire is within reach, but difficulties finding workers is causing delays in its full rollout.Through state...

By TIM CAMERATO

LEBANON — Several Upper Valley communities are in talks to create a regional social worker position that would bridge the gap between first responders, social service agencies and people in their care.The social worker could help people connect with...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

FAIRLEE — As the sun-splashed hillside glowed with the reds, oranges and yellows of the season last Saturday, about 50 friends and relatives of Jack Sweet took a walk around Lake Fairlee.Snacks of apples, cookies and chips sat on one folding table at...