The Thread is our way of leading people through an often complex and multifaceted healthcare experience to where we can all come together to support the health and wellbeing of your loved ones, community, and you.
Dartmouth Health CEO and President Joanne M. Conroy, MDDartmouth Health announced the launch of “The Thread,” a new online information campaign designed to help explain a complex healthcare system, the programs that shape patient care and the impact those programs have on local communities.
The campaign provides resources on several topics such as the economic forces that are driving up the length of hospitals stays and other healthcare costs; the existing mental health infrastructure and the persistent areas of need; the unique challenges of rural healthcare; and the benefits of having an academic health system in the state which invests millions of dollars annually in public health initiatives and care for patients who are uninsured, under-insured or unable to pay; and more.
“In an era of widespread misinformation, we’re committed to delivering reliable insights, rooted in the latest in medical science,” said Dartmouth Health CEO and President Joanne M. Conroy, MD. “The Thread is our way of leading people through an often complex and multifaceted healthcare experience to where we can all come together to support the health and wellbeing of your loved ones, community, and you.”
Dartmouth Health will be sharing information from The Thread through various communication channels, including social media, and will continue to update its online archive of resources with fact sheets and videos that distill complex topics into easily digestible, reliable and up-to-date information.
Dartmouth Health invites members of the public to explore the site and submit questions on the topics that matter most to them. New content will be added regularly to reflect current issues and the evolving healthcare and regulatory landscape.
Learn more at: go.d-h.org/thread
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 (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) 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.