We lead our community to become the nation's healthiest through our clinical and service excellence, collaboration, and compassion for every patient, every time.
A Sense of Place Cheshire Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene are located in Keene, NH a city of approximately 22,000 residents in the beautiful southwest corner of New Hampshire. Keene is conveniently located between Boston, MA and Hartford, CT. (110 miles to each city). It is in the heart of some of New England's finest recreational and historical areas and home to Keene State College and Antioch New England Graduate School.
Joint Partnership Cheshire Medical Center and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene are two legally separate organizations working in partnership for the health of our community, combining expertise, technology, and programs to provide the best possible care for our patients.
Vision:
Building a healthy community - Vision 2020 is a community-wide health initiative designed to actively engage the citizens of Cheshire County in the process of becoming the nation's healthiest community by 2020.
Lead by a coalition of community partners representing multiple sectors - healthcare, education, private business, municipal and state governments, non-profit agencies, and recreational organizations - five Vision 2020 goals, encompassing a broad spectrum and vision of "health" have been identified:
Health Status Health Care Access Health Literacy Wellness Social Capital
Workgroups, formed around each of the goals, have been defining and refining working definitions and identifying programs, policies and services that are currently addressing relevant issues.
Several measurable, valid and recognizable indicators of health have been selected and will be reported out to the community in a consistent and timely manner.
It is anticipated that the work groups will identify, prioritize, and recommend strategies and interventions that will become the foundation for the Vision 2020 Community Plan.