We are excited about working collaboratively with the maternal and 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 and 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 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.