We are so grateful to the Burkehaven Family Foundation for its generous matching gift, which allows our community’s compassion to have an even deeper impact.
Lauren A. Geddes Wirth, MDNew London Hospital (NLH), a member of Dartmouth Health, is proud to announce that the beneficiary of its 99th annual Hospital Days celebration will be its Patient and Family Community Care Initiatives, which provide essential resources including nutritious food, personal care items and emergency assistance to patients and families in the communities served by NLH and Newport Health Center (NHC).
Patient and Family Community Care Initiatives works to ensure dignity, health, and stability for individuals and families by offering practical and compassionate support.
To encourage broad community support for this cause, the Burkehaven Family Foundation has offered a $50,000 matching gift, doubling the impact of every donation made during Hospital Days. Every dollar contributed will go twice as far in helping NLH and NHC meet essential needs across the communities they serve.
“At NLH and NHC, we understand that good health begins with access to life’s essentials,” said Lauren A. Geddes Wirth, MD, president and CEO of NLH. “Our Patient and Family Community Care Initiatives are a direct response to the challenges many of our neighbors face, whether it’s food insecurity, lack of personal care resources or emergency needs. We are so grateful to the Burkehaven Family Foundation for its generous matching gift, which allows our community’s compassion to have an even deeper impact.”
Hospital Days, a cherished community tradition dating back nearly a century, will take place July 31 through August 2, and feature a weekend of family-friendly events and opportunities to support this vital program.
For more information or to make a donation, visit newlondonhospital.org/hospitaldays.
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.
About New London Hospital
As a member of Dartmouth Health, New London Hospital is a Critical Access Hospital serving 15 communities in the Kearsarge/Lake Sunapee region in central New Hampshire, providing primary care and specialized clinical services in a patient and family centered environment. In addition to services at the main campus in New London, primary and some secondary care is offered at the organization's Newport Health Center, a rural health center in Newport, NH. For more information, visit the New London Hospital website.