Rural healthcare systems continue to face unique and growing challenges. To highlight and address critical concerns, CEOs from Dartmouth Health, MaineHealth and the University of Vermont Health Network will engage in a YouTube Live conversation on May 22, 2023, at 3 pm EST.
Concerned citizens, healthcare providers, community leaders, politicians and members of the media are encouraged to watch the live roundtable online. Topics addressed will include academic healthcare in rural New England, the impact of workforce, housing, payer, regulatory and inflation challenges, and innovations that preserve and improve access to high-quality care.
Panelists include:
- Joanne Conroy, MD, CEO and President, Dartmouth Health
- Andrew Mueller, MD, Chief Executive Officer, MaineHealth
- Sunny Eappen, MD, MBA, President and CEO, The UVM Health Network
The roundtable will be moderated by Bipartisan Policy Center Senior Vice President Bill Hoagland and can be viewed live on May 22, 3 pm EST on YouTube.
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.