We are thrilled to team up with the exceptional providers and staff at River Road Pediatrics. Our shared values and commitment to providing patient and family-centered care provide a wonderful foundation for combining our practices.
Erik M. Shessler, MD, Associate Medical Director of Dartmouth Health Children’sEffective March 18, 2024, River Road Pediatrics will join the Dartmouth Health Children’s system of pediatric care. River Road Pediatrics, in Bedford, NH, has cared for babies, children and adolescents in the Bedford area for more than 30 years. This addition to the Dartmouth Health Children’s family allows the ability to provide local, comprehensive care to more children and families in the region.
“We are thrilled to team up with the exceptional providers and staff at River Road Pediatrics,” said Erik M. Shessler, MD, Associate Medical Director of Dartmouth Health Children’s. “Our shared values and commitment to providing patient and family-centered care provide a wonderful foundation for combining our practices.”
Contact us
Call our River Road office at 603-695-2817.
As a member of Dartmouth Health Children’s, River Road Pediatrics families will gain access to enhanced resources through New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the largest breadth of pediatric specialists in the Granite State.
“While our name has changed, we want to assure our valued patients that our unwavering commitment to delivering compassionate, family-centered care will continue unchanged,” said Martin E. Schwartzberg, MD, FAAP, pediatrician at River Road Pediatrics. “Joining forces with Dartmouth Health Children’s enables us to collaborate with an exceptional team of physicians and advanced practice providers, offering a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services to children and families across the region.”
The practice location will remain at 58 Hawthorne Drive in Bedford. To learn more about Dartmouth Health Children’s, visit childrens.dartmouth-health.org.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital, the Golisano Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Health, and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.
About Dartmouth Health Children's
Dartmouth Health Children’s is the most comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region and the first integrative medicine children’s health system in the country. Dartmouth Health Children’s is fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored in Lebanon, NH, by Dartmouth Health’s Golisano Children’s Hospital (also a member of the nationwide Golisano Children’s Alliance): home of the highest acuity neonatal intensive care unit and only pediatric intensive care unit in New Hampshire, along with the only adolescent medical-psychiatry unit in northern New England. Through a unique partnership with the state of New Hampshire at Hampstead Hospital, Dartmouth Health Children’s also provides the state’s only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents. Dartmouth Health Children’s advances knowledge through groundbreaking research and education as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents in a range of settings across New Hampshire and Vermont. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Manchester, NH, with pediatric primary care at nearly every Dartmouth Health member location.