We are excited about working collaboratively with the maternal & child health teams at Elliot Hospital. We know this is the right move for our patients, who deserve world-class care in their community.
Maria D. Padin, MDElliot Health System and Dartmouth Health are pleased to announce a collaboration in maternal and child health services, effective July 1, 2025. This clinical collaboration with Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Bedford/Manchester offers patients in southern New Hampshire the expertise of Dartmouth Health’s obstetricians and midwives to deliver babies and provide the full scope of inpatient reproductive health services, expanding on the outstanding services offered by Elliot Hospital.
“Our commitment is always to provide essential healthcare services needed by mothers and children in our region. For many years, we have enjoyed the support of strong partners in obstetrics. These existing partnerships remain essential for our community. Now, we are pleased to add obstetric providers from Dartmouth Health, building on our longstanding relationship with them. We have expanded our capacity to support this new activity, adding to The Elliot’s service which was already the busiest in New Hampshire,” said Elliot Health System president and CEO Greg Baxter, MD.
The Elliot delivers more than 2,200 babies each year and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Bedford/Manchester in southern New Hampshire averages 800 deliveries each year. This clinical collaboration is built on a common vision and deep commitment of both organizations to provide high-quality, compassionate care, and expand access to this essential care for all who need it.
The initiative also includes collaboration in neonatology, caring for the smallest, sickest, and youngest preterm infants. Supporting the two most advanced neonatal intensive care units (NICU) in New Hampshire, Elliot Hospital and Dartmouth Health Children’s are creating a system to offer coordinated, comprehensive care across the region. The Elliot offers the only level III NICU in southern New Hampshire, providing 32 specialized beds to patients in the state, while Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) hosts Dartmouth Health Children’s intensive care nursery (ICN), a highly specialized 30-bed level IV NICU serving all of New Hampshire and much of Vermont. Through this collaboration, CHaD’s ICN and the Elliot’s NICU will align approaches to care and pool outcomes data to enable families to receive the highest quality care as close to home as possible within New Hampshire. The Elliot will also have access to the full suite of pediatric subspecialty expertise at Dartmouth Health Children’s.
“We are excited about working collaboratively with the maternal & child health teams at Elliot Hospital. We know this is the right move for our patients, who deserve world-class care in their community. We have long partnered with The Elliot in many clinical areas, and this initiative builds upon our existing collaboration,” said Maria D. Padin, MD, chief medical officer for Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Southern Region.
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.