LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock CEO Joanne Conroy is scheduled to host an interactive conversation with Dr. Richard Comi, an endocrinologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, live on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Facebook page at noon on Monday.
They will discuss advances in diabetes treatment, ongoing research, living with diabetes and approaches to preventing diabetes. They invite questions from the community, which can be submitted during the livestream or in advance to social@hitchcock.org.
The live discussion can be viewed on Monday at noon at facebook.com/dartmouthhitchcock.
LEBANON — The nonprofit Upper Valley Community Nursing Project is seeking its first executive director to lead the expansion of the organization’s work, according to its website.
Founded in 2011, the project aims to support the existing community and parish nursing programs in New Hampshire and Vermont and to assist in the development of new programs.
The Nursing Project does not hire or supervise nurses. It provides them with support and promotes the model across the health care system. Community and parish nurses are employed by municipalities and congregations to support residents — especially older adults — to stay in their homes safely.
The nurses collaborate with primary care providers, social service providers and skilled home health care and hospice agencies.
The new director will work with the board to shape the organization’s strategic goals.
The job description is available online at uvcnp.org. To apply, send a cover letter and resume to uvcnp1@gmail.com.
NEW LONDON — A 30-year veteran in the emergency services field has taken the post of emergency medical services director at New London Hospital.
Prior to arriving at New London Hospital, Shawn Riley served as deputy chief of the Laconia Fire Department for 12 years and previously worked in EMS at the Concord Fire Department for about a decade.
“I look forward to the challenge of growing the current programs and incorporating new platforms which will continue to demonstrate our ability to be a leader in New Hampshire’s emergency services,” Riley said in a news release.
Riley grew up in Derry, N.H., and began his EMS career straight out of Derry’s Pinkerton Academy in 1988 working for private EMS companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Granite State College, a paramedic certification from New Hampshire Technical Institute and an MBA from New England College.
LEBANON — Dartmouth-Hitchcock recognized four employees and volunteers whose work embodies a commitment to creating and sustaining an environment of high quality patient- and family-centered care with the Varnum Award, according to a news release.
The award is named for James Varnum, who was chief executive officer of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital for 28 years, and is supported by the James W. Varnum Quality Health Care Endowment.
This year’s honorees include:
■Kelsey Allard, a resource specialist in outpatient psychiatry who also works per diem in the emergency department and recently celebrated her five-year anniversary at D-H.
■Jenna-Lee Doss, a clinical nurse in the CHaD Pediatric Clinic’s Complex Care Program.
■Dr. Timothy Gardner, a physician in gastroenterology and hepatology, who has been with D-H for nearly 20 years.
■Abigail Johnston, a section supervisor in pathology and laboratory medicine/chemistry.
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Health Care and Rehabilitation Services, southeastern Vermont’s community mental-health agency, announced the appointment of new employees in a news release.
New HCRS employees in the Upper Valley include Shammi Shoemaker, a residential coordinator in Springfield; Shelby Day, a case manager in Hartford; Dominique Rondeau, a clinician in Springfield; Margaret Simmons, a behavioral interventionist in Hartford; Benjamin Perron, a behavioral interventionist in Hartford; and Matthew Hudson, a clinician in Springfield.
The new hires will support the nonprofit agency’s mental health, substance abuse and developmental disability programs, which serve more than 4,000 people annually in Windsor and Windham counties.
— Compiled by Nora Doyle-Burr