Meet Our Partners
Interested in becoming a partner of the Northeast Node? Please email northeast.node.ctn@dartmouth.edu.
- ALL Together cat-education
ALL Together
ALL Together is a multi-organization collaboration that supports the development of healthy, safe, and resilient communities that take action to reduce the impact of alcohol and drug misuse. ALL Together prioritizes implementation of evidence-based programs, policies, and practices including community engagement.
ALL Together is made up of local community coalitions and a regional leadership council. ALL Together is recognized as the Substance Misuse Prevention workgroup of the Public Health Council of the Upper Valley and is also nationally recognized as a Drug Free Communities Coalition. Towns represented are: Canaan, Dorchester, Enfield, Grafton, Grantham, Hanover, Lebanon, Lyme, Piermont, Plainfield, Orange, and Orford, New Hampshire and Hartford and Norwich, Vermont. ALL Together is supported by the New Hampshire Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
- Better Life Partners cat-healthcare
Better Life Partners
Better Life Partners is a mission-driven organization focused on expanding access to high quality, evidence-based medication-assisted treatment combined with counseling in community-based settings. BLP's objective is to help people achieve their recovery goals, tailored to their individual situation. By partnering with local organizations, BLP provides a customized experience to our neighbors, friends, and family members in need, meeting them in their community, at the right time, with the right plan to achieve a better life.
- Bi-State Primary Care Association cat-education
Bi-State Primary Care Association
Established in 1986, Bi-State Primary Care Association is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501 (c) (3) charitable organization that promotes access to effective and affordable primary care and preventive services for all, with special emphasis on underserved populations in Vermont and New Hampshire. Bi-State works with federal, state, and regional health policy organizations, foundations, and payers to develop strategies, policies, and programs that provide and support community-based primary health care services in medically underserved areas.
- Catholic Medical Center cat-healthcare
Catholic Medical Center
Catholic Medical Center (CMC), a member of GraniteOne Health, is a nonprofit regional health system, with a commitment to delivering the highest quality and most advanced healthcare to patients across New Hampshire. CMC is the home of the nationally-renowned New England Heart and Vascular Institute, rated among the top cardiovascular programs in the country. Our doctors were the first in the state to perform a mechanical heart/left ventricular assist device implant and first in New England to implant the WATCHMAN™ for atrial fibrillation. CMC was also one of the first hospitals in New Hampshire to establish a joint venture with independent medical staff members when it became a partner in the freestanding Bedford Ambulatory Surgical Center and imaging center. CMC's birthing unit, The Mom's Place, was the first hospital in the country to have a neonatal unit based on "couplet care." Our nationally-accredited Breast Care Center was the first in the state to use contrast enhanced mammography and SAVI SCOUT® localization for breast surgery. With primary care practices that care for the very young to the young at heart and our dedication to community outreach programs, CMC is helping to foster a healthier community, everyday.
- Center for Technology and Behavioral Health cat-research
Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) is a P30 "Center of Excellence" funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Comprised of an interdisciplinary team of leaders in behavioral science and technology, CTBH aims to draw on the dynamic synergy between innovation, rigorous evaluation, and strategic dissemination to lead transformations in delivery of evidence-based behavioral health care using technology.
The CTBH team shares a goal of harnessing existing and emerging technologies to effectively develop and deliver evidence-based interventions for substance use and co-occurring disorders. CTBH is organized into three primary cores: Treatment Development & Evaluation, Emerging Technologies & Data Analytics, and Dissemination & Implementation Core. Core activities focus on identifying and studying state-of-the-art issues related to technology-delivered therapeutic tools targeting behavioral health.
- Cheshire Medical Center cat-healthcare
Cheshire Medical Center
Cheshire Medical Center (CMC), a 169-bed nonprofit community hospital located in Keene, New Hampshire, is united with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene (DHK), a multi-specialty group practice, through a unique joint operating agreement to form a comprehensive health system. Together, CMC and DHK are working to transform the healthcare landscape and create a culture of health for all. CMC/DHK strives for care delivery innovation through its early adoption of the patient-centered medical home, participation in national quality and payment reform initiatives, and promoting our successful model of community-clinical integration. CMC/DHK serves as the backbone organization for the nationally recognized Healthy Monadnock 2020 Initiative that has the goal of helping our Monadnock Region become the healthiest community in the nation by 2020. CMC/DHK collaborates with many key partners in assessing health and social needs, sharing measures transparently, and engaging the community in action planning and strategy implementation. A 2014-2015 HRSA Rural Health Network Planning Grant helped CMC/DHK, the local Mental Health Center, a Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center, and the prevention and recovery communities to begin to plan for coordinated action on substance misuse and behavioral health integration with primary care.
- Concord Hospital cat-healthcare
Concord Hospital
Concord Hospital is a 300-bed community-based hospital which serves as a primary and specialty care base for the Capital Region. In the fall of 2015, the addition of an Addiction Medicine specialist embedded in one of the Community Health Centers expanded our service lines to care for patients with substance use disorders. It is this faction that will be developing programs to adopt and systematize prevention strategies to include Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) programs across a continuum with psychological treatment strategies as well as implementing medication-assisted treatment and to explore partnering with peer recovery support services.
- Dartmouth CO-OP Primary Care Research Network cat-research
Dartmouth CO-OP Primary Care Research Network
Started in 1972, the Dartmouth CO-OP Primary Care Research Network (The Dartmouth CO-OP Project) is one of the oldest primary care research networks in the United States. The research network is a voluntary, cooperative network of independent clinicians. The CO-OP collaborates with academic researchers to improve the outcomes focus of care and develop products that work in busy community-practice settings.
The mission of the Dartmouth CO-OP Project is to:
- Generate funded research and publish results to support the practice of evidence-based medicine
- Provide opportunities for clinicians and other health professionals to develop new research skills
- Perform research studies in partnership with primary care clinicians, their patients and the communities they serve to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes
- Facilitate clinical translation in both directions, using the expertise of clinicians to guide the research and extending the expertise of researchers to support clinicians.
- Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine cat-education
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
The Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, founded in 1797, strives to improve the lives of the people it serves: students, patients, and local and global communities. The School builds healthier communities through innovations in research, education, and patient care. As one of America's top medical schools, the Geisel School of Medicine is committed to creating new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in healthcare.
- Dartmouth Health Children’s cat-healthcare
Dartmouth Health Children’s
As New Hampshire’s only full service, comprehensive children's hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Children's (previously CHaD) is committed to providing outstanding compassionate care for children and their families. Their physician expertise provides primary, specialty, and tertiary care to the children of New Hampshire, Vermont, and beyond. Dartmouth Hitchcock Children's offers inpatient (hospital care) and outpatient (same day care) services at Dartmouth‐Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Outpatient and same day surgery services are available at Dartmouth‐Hitchcock Manchester, as well as outpatient pediatric specialties at Wentworth‐Douglass Hospital, Dover and in Exeter. Primary care is available at Dartmouth‐Hitchcock facilities in Bedford, Concord, Keene, Lebanon, Manchester, Nashua, and Plymouth, NH as well as Bennington, VT.
For more information about Dartmouth Health Children's, please visit our website or contact us at (603) 650‐KIDS or chad.community.relations@hitchcock.org.
- Dartmouth-Health cat-healthcare
Dartmouth-Health
Dartmouth Health (D-H) is a nonprofit academic health system serving communities in northern New England. D-H provides access to more than 1,000 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 45 Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation; the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; four affiliate hospitals; 24 ambulatory clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont; and through the Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire. The D-H system trains nearly 400 residents and fellows annually, and performs world-class research, in partnership with the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. In 2016, Dartmouth Health Medical Center was named one of "100 Great Hospitals in America" by Becker's Hospital Review.
- Foundation for Healthy Communities cat-community cat-education cat-healthcare
Foundation for Healthy Communities
The Foundation for Healthy Communities is a nonprofit corporation that exists to improve health and health care in New Hampshire through partnerships that engage individuals and organizations. Working with partners across the health care continuum, the Foundation strives to promote access to affordable health care, lead change strategies that support and sustain healthier communities, and improve the quality of care delivered by promoting innovative, collaborative practices.
- Granite Pathways cat-healthcare
- Groups Recover Together cat-healthcare
Groups Recover Together
Groups is a mission-driven organization committed to providing low-cost, respectful treatment to everyone suffering from opiate addiction. We believe that anyone can recover from opiate addiction and strive to ensure everyone gets that chance. Groups' clinical model-based on weekly group therapy and treatment with Suboxone-provides excellent care at a price patients can afford. Groups is a community of physicians, counselors and recovering opiate users whom you can rely on for affordable and convenient help. Everything we do is based on the best medical science. We currently operate in New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio and Indiana and see approximately 1,200 patients a week.
- HIV/HCV Resource Center cat-community cat-healthcare
HIV/HCV Resource Center
The HIV/HCV Resource Center is a non-profit, community-based HIV/AIDS Service Organization. We offer case management and support services for people living with HIV/AIDS as well as educational, counseling and syringe exchange programs to prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C. All our services are free of charge to residents of Windsor and Orange counties in Vermont and Grafton, Sullivan and Coos counties in New Hampshire.
- Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance cat-education
Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance
The Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance of Maine, based at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a one-of-a-kind innovative health education program that links an academic medical center with a neighboring state. This connection between Mass General and Maine, through Lunder-Dineen, has proven fertile ground for innovation in the delivery of high-quality health education to empower and equip health care teams by advancing the knowledge, skills and attitudes to promote improvements in public health outcomes. Lunder-Dineen’s tagline is Health Education is Powerful Medicine. We aim to reduce identified barriers and provide methods to adapt and respond to the changing health care needs of Maine residents. Lunder-Dineen has three strategic educational initiatives to address public health issues. Each initiative follows an established a methodology to develop each of these initiatives that incorporates best practices for the science of learning.
- Maine Behavioral Healthcare cat-healthcare
Maine Behavioral Healthcare
Maine Behavioral Healthcare is committed to creating a seamless system of behavioral healthcare across Maine, coordinating hospital psychiatric care with community-based treatment services, and better access to medical care through integration with primary care services. Effectively coordinating client and patient care across multiple locations and treatment settings will not only provide optimal health outcomes, but serve as a national model for treating people with serious mental health issues. We are a proud member of MaineHealth, Maine's largest health system, working together to make our communities the healthiest in America.
- Maine Medical Center cat-healthcare
Maine Medical Center
Maine Medical Center is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of the communities it serves by:
- Caring for our community
- Educating tomorrow's caregivers
- Researching new ways to provide care
We proudly carry our unique responsibility as Maine's leader in patient care, education and research. We are dedicated to the traditions and ideals of not-for-profit healthcare. Our care is available to all who seek it.
Through the leadership of Maine Medical Center, we envision Maine becoming the healthiest state in the nation by putting patients and their families’ first, providing access to affordable care, and delivering superior service and outcomes.
- Maine Medical Center Research Institute cat-research
Maine Medical Center Research Institute
The Maine Medical Center Research Institute supports and encourages a broad spectrum of research at Maine Medical Center ranging from basic laboratory-based research through the translational research, which works to apply basic discoveries to medical problems, to clinical research, which studies the direct application of new drugs, devices and treatment protocols to patients, to health services research which seeks to use research methods to help improve and evaluate health care delivery programs and new technologies.
Successful medical research is a complex process requiring close collaboration of basic scientists, physicians, epidemiologists and data analysts, state-of-the-art instruments, resources to protect the interest of patients who volunteer to participate in clinical trials, and a strong commitment on the part of the Institution. All of these elements are represented in the Maine Medical Center Research Institute. We have world-class scientists working on the most advanced biomedical problems. We have been successful in bringing the benefits of new discoveries to our patients and to the world, and we have an ongoing commitment to continue to be one of the very best biomedical research communities.
- Maine Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services cat-community
- Maine Primary Care Association cat-healthcare
Maine Primary Care Association
Maine Primary Care Association (MPCA) is a membership organization representing the collective voices of Maine's Community Health Centers - referred to as Maine's health care safety net. For more than 30 years, MPCA has provided technical assistance and training, housed relevant programs and services and advocated on behalf of Maine's safety net and the thousands of patients it serves.
Within this work we hope to strengthen Maine's health centers with programs and services such as advocacy efforts, clinical quality improvement initiatives, workforce development, community outreach, health information technologies, risk management planning, strategic planning and technical assistance.
We also work to amplify messages shared among member health centers, bridge medical practices and the public health sector and provide linkages to community, state and federal partners including public health and allied agencies.
- MaineHealth cat-healthcare
MaineHealth
MaineHealth is a not-for-profit integrated health system whose vision is, “Working together so our communities are the healthiest in America.” It consists of nine local health systems, a comprehensive behavioral health care network, diagnostic services, home health agencies, and 1,700 employed providers working together through the MaineHealth Medical Group. With approximately 22,000 employees, MaineHealth provides preventive care, diagnosis and treatment to 1.1 million residents in Maine and New Hampshire.
Incorporated in 1868, MMC is the state’s largest medical center, licensed for 700 beds and employing more than 9,600 people. Maine Medical Center’s unique role as both a community hospital and a referral center requires an unparalleled depth and breadth of services, including the state’s only allopathic medical school program, through a partnership with Tufts University School of Medicine, and a world-class biomedical research center, the MaineHealth Institute for Research.
- New Hampshire Area Health Education Centers cat-education
New Hampshire Area Health Education Centers
The New Hampshire Area Health Education Center’s (NH AHEC) mission is: “To develop innovative approaches that meet the health needs of diverse populations by enhancing the knowledge, skills, and capacity of the health care workforce and New Hampshire communities” with a programmatic focus to enhance access to high quality, culturally competent health care through academic-community partnerships to improve the distribution, diversity, and supply of the primary care health professions workforce who serve in rural and underserved health care delivery sites. The AHECs receive seed funding through a competitive grant from the HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce to establish an infrastructure and activities that are of value to the communities served by the AHEC. Partners include academic institutions, community health networks, public health networks, civic groups, social service agencies, and other community-based organizations throughout the state.
NH AHEC is comprised of three offices: the Program office housed in Lebanon, NH at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; and two Center offices, the Northern NH AHEC housed in Littleton, NH at the North Country Health Consortium; and the Southern NH AHEC at Lamprey Health Center in Raymond NH. Together, these AHECs serve the totality of New Hampshire.
- New Hampshire Health and Human Services Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services cat-community
New Hampshire Health and Human Services Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services
The mission of the New Hampshire Health and Human Services Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services is to join individuals, families and communities in reducing alcohol and other drug problems thereby increasing opportunities for citizens to achieve health and independence. We pursue this mission, in part, through working on statewide prevention,intervention, treatment, and recovery initiatives.
- New Hampshire Hospital Association cat-community
New Hampshire Hospital Association
Hospitals have been collaborating through the New Hampshire Hospital Association since 1934. The Association's mission is to provide leadership through advocacy, education, and information in support of its member hospitals and health care delivery systems in delivering high quality healthcare to the patients and communities they serve.
- New Hampshire Pediatric Improvement Partnership cat-community
New Hampshire Pediatric Improvement Partnership
The NH Pediatric Improvement Partnership is a state-level multi-disciplinary collaborative of private and public partners dedicated to improving the quality of health care received by all NH children through the use of measurement-based quality improvement processes in primary care settings. The NHPIP is coordinated by the Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire, with Medical Director leadership from the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. The NH PIP includes representation from state government, pediatric and family physicians, insurance, family/consumers, academia, and non-profit agencies.
- NH Citizens Health Initiative cat-community cat-education cat-healthcare
NH Citizens Health Initiative
The mission of the NH Citizens Health Initiative is to measurably improve the systems that finance and provide health care in New Hampshire, by providing trusted leadership, data, and shared learning. Our goal is to accomplish the quadruple aim: achieving better health outcomes, with a better patient care experience, at a lower cost, and with higher provider satisfaction.
- North Star Health cat-healthcare
North Star Health
North Star Health is a federally qualified health center (FQHC) proudly serving communities in southern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire. We provide medical, behavioral health, dental and vision care and many other services to people of all ages regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
- Northern Light Health cat-healthcare
Northern Light Health
Northern Light Acadia Hospital is more than a hospital; we are a hub for behavioral and mental health services and expertise throughout Maine.
- Our Mission: To empower people to improve their lives.
- Our Vision: To be the psychiatric provider of choice.
- Our Values: Compassion, Accountability, Integrity, Respect
The care we provide to our patients is rooted in compassion and respect. A 100-bed, acute care, short-stay psychiatric hospital, we provide a full continuum of mental and behavioral health services for children, teens, and adults. Our interdisciplinary care teams work closely together to wrap our patients with the comprehensive care they deserve.Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center serves communities throughout central, eastern, and northern Maine.
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and its staff of more than 450 physicians provide three-quarters of the primary-care services in the Bangor area, specialty and intensive services and is a level II trauma center. - Penobscot Community Health Care cat-healthcare
Penobscot Community Health Care
Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) is a non-profit, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1997 to ensure access to comprehensive, integrated primary health care services for all to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and the Maine communities served. Sixteen practices and program service sites in the Bangor area, and in Belfast and Jackman, offer a wide range of services including family medicine, dental, pediatrics, geriatrics, mental health and substance abuse, specialty services, pharmacy and healthcare for the homeless.
PCHC is staffed by more than 700 employees who serve almost 65,000 patients annually. PCHC is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC) and has received regional and national recognition as a leader among the nation's Community Health Centers. Its practices have earned certifications from the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) for Patient-Centered Medical Home. PCHC is the largest FQHC in Maine and one of the largest and most comprehensive of the 100 FQHCs in New England.
- Rutland Regional Medical Center cat-healthcare
Rutland Regional Medical Center
Rutland Regional Medical Center is the second largest hospital in the state. We are a 123-bed hospital, employing over 1,500 professional and support staff including 227 providers trained in 36 specialty areas. RRMC provides preventive, diagnostic, acute, and rehabilitative services for more than 70,000 residents. RRMC serves Rutland County, portions of southern and central Vermont, and communities in eastern New York State.
RRMC’s mission is to improve the health of the Rutland Region and surrounding
communities by providing appropriate, superior, integrated, preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic health services in a caring environment through the strength of our people, technology and relationships. - Southwestern Vermont Health Care cat-healthcare
Southwestern Vermont Health Care
Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) is a comprehensive, pre-eminent health care system providing exceptional, convenient, and affordable care to the communities of Bennington and Windham Counties of Vermont, eastern Rensselaer and Washington Counties of New York, and northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. SVHC includes Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), a 99-bed community hospital, whose providers are members of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians. SVMC’s services include an emergency department staffed by physicians, each of whom is board certified in emergency medicine; the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center, which is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and managed by Dartmouth-Hitchcock; and a fully-digital imaging department. SVMC also includes 19 primary and specialty care practices and primary care offices in Bennington, Manchester, Pownal, West Dover, and Wilmington, VT. SVMC has four primary care practices that are NCQA-certified Patient Centered Medical Homes. Within the Bennington community there are four Spoke practices which provide medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction.
- The Vermont Blueprint for Health cat-community cat-research
The Vermont Blueprint for Health
The Vermont Blueprint for Health (the Blueprint) is a state-led, nationally-recognized initiative transforming health care delivery and payments. The foundation is the Blueprint’s Transformation Network, a network of Practice Facilitators, Community Health Team leaders, and Project Managers, who work with Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs), Community Health Teams (CHTs), and local health and human services leaders. This network allows for rapid response to Vermont’s health priorities through statewide implementation of new initiatives. Blueprint programs are continuously informed by comprehensive evaluations of health care quality and outcomes at the practice-, community-, and state-levels. As the care delivery system and payment model evolve, the Blueprint’s aim is constant: connecting Vermonters with whole person health care that is evidence-based, patient and family-centered, and cost-effective.
- Valley Regional Healthcare cat-healthcare
Valley Regional Healthcare
At VRH, you are at the center of our coordinated care system, where efficient, effective services are tailored to your needs by providers you know and trust.
Our staff strives to provide compassionate, affordable, high quality care in our community. We offer a spectrum of services from urgent need and emergency services, to regular check ups and medical imaging. Through provider partnerships, we are able to offer an array of specialty services to connect you with the care you need.
- Vermont Department of Health Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs cat-community cat-research
Vermont Department of Health Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs
The Vermont Department of Health Division of Substance Use Programs (DSU, formerly ADAP) oversees a network of health promotion, prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery services to prevent, reduce and eliminate the health impacts of alcohol, cannabis, opioid and other drug use. Works with national, state and community-based organizations to make programs and services available to Vermonters. We use data to plan and guide program improvements, and to support Vermont’s statewide system of providers.
No results found for selected filters.