This March marks three years since the COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives.
When we first started the Monadnock Region Health Reporting Lab, we created that name with intention. We wanted a “lab” so that we could tell …
Author’s note: This column includes mention of attempted suicide. If you or a loved one are struggling with mental health, you’re not alone. P…
Stories
New Hampshire received almost all failing grades in the American Lung Association’s recent State of Tobacco Control Report, landing in the bot…
The Monadnock Region Health Reporting Lab launched its first podcast, “Invisible Illness,” on Friday.
When a victim of sexual assault arrives at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s emergency department, Emily Kennedy tries to meet them immediately.
The Monadnock Region Health Reporting Lab will soon launch its first podcast.
Ahead of drafting the state’s new plan on aging, the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services held a listening session in Keene on Wednesd…
In 2017, a group of leading New Hampshire lawmakers toured the emergency room at Concord Hospital at the invitation of the hospital president …
Health Solutions Reporter Olivia Belanger keeps readers informed on issues like mental health, the opioid crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Before joining The Sentinel’s staff, Olivia spent a year as the health, nonprofit and education reporter for the Watertown Daily Times in Watertown, N.Y. A 2018 graduate of Keene State College, Olivia decided to move back to the area in the summer of 2019 to tell the unique stories of the Monadnock Region. The Bartlett native now lives in Keene with her fiancé, Ryan, and their Bernese mountain dog, Koa.
Contact Olivia at obelanger@keenesentinel.com
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BRATTLEBORO — People seeking mental health treatment in Vermont may have slightly shorter wait times under a Brattleboro pilot program that wa…
The open-enrollment period for individual health insurance through the federal marketplace will soon close.
JAFFREY — Sen. Jeanne Shaheen visited a local addiction-recovery service Tuesday on the first stop of her “Invest in New Hampshire” tour, aime…
The president and CEO of Cheshire Medical Center plans to retire this spring, hospital officials announced Tuesday.
BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Retreat, out of a need for more employees, is working with two other area organizations to renovate a local buil…
GREENFIELD — The president of Seven Hills Foundation, which recently took over Crotched Mountain School to prevent it from closing, is retirin…
To better monitor COVID-19 levels in the Granite State, the N.H. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a wastewater surveillanc…
In early December, Yuan Pan was in New York City with his wife, Pirawan, and their daughter. The trip was an early Christmas present for Adeli…
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its findings about suicide rates for 2021, the conclusion — that rates had increa…
Sexually transmitted infections appear to be increasing in New Hampshire, during a year when the state’s Executive Council has repeatedly vote…
GREENFIELD — David Jordan’s phone started to ring almost immediately after Gersh Autism announced it would be closing its school at Crotched M…
After COVID-19 was discovered in white-tailed deer living in several states, New Hampshire wildlife experts are working to determine whether t…
A bipartisan coalition is expected to move forward with a marijuana legalization bill in the N.H. House of Representatives, in hopes of ending…
Around the Monadnock Region, doctors in outpatient clinics and emergency departments are beginning to see patients experiencing flu-like symptoms.
Cheshire Medical Center’s interim chief nursing officer has been hired for the permanent role, the Dartmouth Health affiliate announced in a n…
With Thanksgiving fast approaching, several local organizations are offering free turkey dinners for their neighbors in need.
Parents at a specialty day and residential school for students with autism received an email last month announcing that the one-of-a-kind faci…
Before Siobhan Benham started her own medical practice, she was consistently overwhelmed by her job.
A Keene business that provides care services for seniors failed to properly compensate workers for overtime hours, according to the U.S. Depar…
With rising food costs and a recent decline in donations stinting budgets at local food pantries, a three-year grant from the Monadnock United…
In just a couple of weeks, New Hampshire residents will cast their ballots in the state’s general election. And as Monadnock Region voters mul…
GREENFIELD — Courtney Fauvel toured Legacy by Gersh, an educational facility for students with autism on Crotched Mountain, in June of last ye…
GREENFIELD — Legacy by Gersh is closing its Greenfield campus, formerly known as the Crotched Mountain School, next month, according to WMUR.
Corey Ricker was 17 when he first started using opioids. It started with prescription pain pills, then progressed to illicit street drugs.
JAFFREY — The state’s COVID-19 vaccine program will host a drop-in clinic at the Jaffrey Public Library next weekend.
WINCHESTER — Due to the loss of one of its providers last month, some patients of Cheshire Medical Center’s Winchester office need to temporar…
When researcher Elsa Falkenburger thinks about the benefit of trauma-informed communities, she recalls the curb-cut effect.
