We want to positively impact our patients and help them lead healthy lives where they live, work, play and pray together throughout our community.
Maggie Graul, MPH, population health epidemiologist for Cheshire’s Center for Population HealthCheshire Medical Center, a member of Dartmouth Health, is releasing its latest Community Benefits Report, a snapshot of the hospital’s work to improve local health and wellness.
As a nonprofit healthcare provider, Cheshire is committed to using our resources to support the health of the community. One way we do this is through our Community Benefits programs, which are designed to provide strategic supports throughout the Monadnock Region.
These programs are based on a Community Health Needs Assessment of patients and local residents, conducted by Cheshire’s Center for Population Health every three years.
The previous assessment, conducted in 2022, identified four areas of focus for Cheshire’s team: improving healthcare access, behavioral health supports, aging population services and substance use disorder prevention and supports.
Cheshire’s latest Community Benefits Report highlights four programs from fiscal year 2024 that help address these issues to positively impact the health of our community members, in and out of the healthcare setting.
“We know that healthcare doesn’t just happen inside the four walls of a hospital or a clinic,” said Maggie Graul, MPH, population health epidemiologist for Cheshire’s Center for Population Health. “We want to positively impact our patients and help them lead healthy lives where they live, work, play and pray together throughout our community.”
Click here to read the full report. To participate in our latest Community Health Needs Assessment, click here.
About Cheshire Medical Center
Cheshire Medical Center (Cheshire) is a Dartmouth Health member providing the communities in the Greater Monadnock Region a continuum of care spanning primary care and specialty medicine, to surgical services and acute inpatient care. For more than 130 years, Cheshire has been a key contributor to the health and vitality of the Monadnock Region. As a not-for-profit community medical center, Cheshire is deeply committed to delivering excellent care in a safe and welcoming environment. Cheshire is dedicated to being a great neighbor and serves as an integral community resource. Cheshire is the area's largest healthcare provider and leading employer. Along with the services delivered on their Keene campus and satellite locations, the Medical Center partners with local organizations to provide vital services and programs throughout the region. To learn more, call 603-354-5400 or visit the Cheshire Medical Center website.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.