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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In a quiet corner of Blossom Hill Cemetery, two modest grave markers stand side by side on a bare patch of earth where fresh grass is just beginning to grow — Julia Byrne, 26, on the left, and her three-year-old son, Blake, on the right.

By MARION UMPLEBY

WEST LEBANON — Rite Aid pharmacies in Bethel, Randolph and Newport have joined the list of stores poised to shutter across the country following the company’s May 5 bankruptcy filing.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Signaling that the future of government support for health care is murky, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and its associated clinics said they are instituting a “hiring pause” in the face of industry “headwinds,” including potential cuts to Medicaid and research funding.

By JIM KENYON

When a small group of the 1,400 registered nurses at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center embarked on a grassroots unionization drive in early 2024, they expected backlash from the hospital’s administration. Hostile bosses, they could handle. Petty moves by management, such as requiring pro-union fliers be on laminated paper, were minor inconveniences.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is creating a new section for geriatric medicine that focuses on providing holistic medical care for older patients.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — A nonprofit that reviews hospitals across the nation based on safety has given Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center a grade of C, but hospital leaders said the grade is not reflective of the care patients are currently receiving.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — After years of planning, an Upper Valley nonprofit is approaching the construction stage for a residential substance use treatment center for mothers and their children near Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

By PATRICK O’GRADY

UNITY — Over the past two months, dozens of residents at the Sullivan County nursing home have moved from the home’s older wing, known as the Stearns building, to a new addition.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BURLINGTON — When it comes to a doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit against Dartmouth Health, legal fees could end up costing the state’s largest health system more than the financial judgment itself.

By SRUTHIGOPALAKRISHNAN

A half-eaten container of yogurt still sits in the fridge. A “Bluey” bike leans against the back door, and a small watering can rests untouched nearby, each item an aching reminder of the life that filled Bill Byrne’s home in Pembroke, N.H., less than a week ago.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

In New Hampshire, one in four adults over the age of 65 lives alone, putting them at greater risk of social isolation and its negative impacts on both mental and physical health, according to a recent study.

By TOM MURPHY

Rite Aid customers can expect their local store to close or change ownership in the next few months, as the struggling drugstore chain goes through another bankruptcy filing.

By LIORA ENGEL

Last summer, around the time Cheshire Medical Center nurse Steven Finnell allegedly began taking painkillers meant for patients, officials from the Keene hospital asked state regulators to lift sanctions put in place to prevent drug diversion, regulatory documents show. The state Board of Pharmacy agreed.

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne Conroy’s testimony this week in a fertility doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit brought me back to the summer of 1973 and the U.S. Senate’s televised Watergate hearings where Republican Howard Baker, of Tennessee, famously asked: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health will begin accepting patients to a new inpatient psychiatric ward for teenagers next week amid a rising need for mental health services nationwide.

By ALEX HANSON

LEBANON — A brief tour and meeting Thursday between U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and officials from Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth Cancer Center and Dartmouth College put into stark relief the many ways in which the Trump Administration is disrupting health care and medical research.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A navy blue van has been making its way across New Hampshire for the past two years, stocked with naloxone, syringes, fentanyl test strips, condoms and other supplies meeting people where they are and helping to prevent overdoses and infections.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Armed security guards will become a new presence at New Hampshire Hospital, the state’s psychiatric facility in Concord following a fatal shooting in November 2023, when a security guard stationed in the hospital lobby was killed by a former patient at the hospital.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Psychiatrist John Hinck was on duty at New Hampshire Hospital on November 17, 2023, when gunfire shattered the routine of the state’s largest psychiatric facility. He recalled sheltering in place with the staff and patients, only to find later security officer Bradley Haas killed in the lobby.

By TODD BOOKMAN

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office says Dartmouth Health is cooperating with a review of its vaccination policies that may violate state law.