The Thread is our way of leading people through an often complex and multifaceted healthcare experience to where we can all come together to support the health and wellbeing of your loved ones, community, and you.
Dartmouth Health CEO and President Joanne M. Conroy, MDDartmouth Health announced the launch of “The Thread,” a new online information campaign designed to help explain a complex healthcare system, the programs that shape patient care and the impact those programs have on local communities.
The campaign provides resources on several topics such as the economic forces that are driving up the length of hospitals stays and other healthcare costs; the existing mental health infrastructure and the persistent areas of need; the unique challenges of rural healthcare; and the benefits of having an academic health system in the state which invests millions of dollars annually in public health initiatives and care for patients who are uninsured, under-insured or unable to pay; and more.
“In an era of widespread misinformation, we’re committed to delivering reliable insights, rooted in the latest in medical science,” said Dartmouth Health CEO and President Joanne M. Conroy, MD. “The Thread is our way of leading people through an often complex and multifaceted healthcare experience to where we can all come together to support the health and wellbeing of your loved ones, community, and you.”
Dartmouth Health will be sharing information from The Thread through various communication channels, including social media, and will continue to update its online archive of resources with fact sheets and videos that distill complex topics into easily digestible, reliable and up-to-date information.
Dartmouth Health invites members of the public to explore the site and submit questions on the topics that matter most to them. New content will be added regularly to reflect current issues and the evolving healthcare and regulatory landscape.
Learn more at: go.d-h.org/thread
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.