Community 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.

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.

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 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.

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 (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.

Granite Pathways supports individuals with mental illness and/or substance use disorders in building personal equity and achieving their life goals as valued members of their community.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 (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 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 (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.

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.