Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., on March 6, 2014. (Valley News - Will Parson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., on March 6, 2014. (Valley News - Will Parson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.


Concord — Officials with Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the state of New Hampshire have agreed to a settlement over whether the Lebanon-based health care system provided an adequate number of psychiatrists under a contract at New Hampshire Hospital.

The settlement — in which the parties say they wish to “buy peace” and neither admits wrongdoing — calls for Dartmouth-Hitchcock to provide the state a $75,000 credit and provide up to $77,500 for an independent study of care at the psychiatric hospital from last November through April.

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Posted at 4:40 p.m. For a full report, see Thursday’s Valley News.