Community Health Spotlights

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.

Paramedic Intercept Program Provides Emergency Services to Area Towns
The program is the primary paramedic response for Alstead, Marlow and Walpole.

Palliative Care Program Improves Patients' Quality of Life
The program provides comfort for inpatients living with any terminal diagnosis and their families.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.