Community Health Spotlights

A golden retriever with a scrub cap

Pet Therapy Program is Just What the Dog-Tor Ordered

Therapy dogs and their humans work as a team to visit every department of the hospital to provide comfort and support to patients and staff.

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Cheshire Medical Center paramedics

Paramedic Intercept Program Provides Emergency Services to Area Towns

The program is the primary paramedic response for Alstead, Marlow and Walpole.

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A patient in a hospital bed

Palliative Care Program Improves Patients' Quality of Life

The program provides comfort for inpatients living with any terminal diagnosis and their families.

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Orthopaedic providers

Athletic Training Program Builds Relationships Between Teens and Adults

Cheshire Medical Center's Orthopaedics Department provides support at local high schools to build trusting relationships.

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Staff stand in front of resource room item display

Resource Room Limits Barries to Injury Prevention

The room provides free items to ensure the safety of Family and Community Care Clinic's patients and staff.

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m left, John Letendre, continuum of care facilitator for Cheshire Medical Center’s Center for Population Health, and Steve Perrin, safety coordinator for Cheshire County, stand beside a NaloxBox opioid rescue kit.

Cheshire Medical Center Helps Locally Distribute Opioid Rescue Kits

The New Hampshire State Opioid Response team equipped every public health network in the state, including Cheshire’s Center for Population Health, with these kits, known as NaloxBoxes.

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Road sign for Cheshire Medical Center's West Campus on Maple Ave in Keene that houses Family and Community Care and the Family Medicine Residency

Cheshire Medical Center Opens New Family Medicine Clinic to Expand Local Services

Family & Community Care (FCC), associated with Cheshire's Family Medicine Residency, opened at the new West Campus on Maple Ave on October 9, 2023

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Rachael Richardson stands smiling, wearing a pink sweater and headband, in front of a decorative hedge

Breast Cancer Survivor Urges Patients to Be Their Own Best Advocates

At age 35, Rachael's proactive attitude towards her own care helped save her life. She explains how you can do the same.

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Kids at the DeMar Marathon celebrating

Run and Read A Marathon Program Helps Kids Blend Intellectual and Physical Exercise

This fun and engaging program excites kids about intellectual and physical agility by incorporating reading with the annual Kid's DeMar Marathon.

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Preteen having a vulnerable conversation with trusted adult

Can the Monadnock Region Become a Trauma-Informed Community?

Trauma significantly impacts people's health and our community, recently the Healthy Monadnock Alliance's Behavioral Health Working Group received a grant to help change that.

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