Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
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Southern New Hampshire Medical Center is a hospital
in Nashua
, New Hampshire
, USA
, founded in 1891. A 188-bed acute facility, the hospital is now housed on two Nashua campuses with provider offices and rehabilitation clinics located throughout the greater Nashua area.
The Medical Center has one of the largest physician networks in southern New Hampshire with over 450 primary and specialty care providers.
partnerships with organizations such as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
, Lahey Clinic
, Children's Hospital Boston
, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Joslin Diabetes Center
, offer greater expertise to the community.
A $12 million construction project broke ground in July 2004 to expand emergency and cardiology services.
Through its affiliation with Lahey Clinic, the Medical Center was the first to bring angioplasty to Nashua in September 2004. Cardiologists at Lahey Cardiology at The Medical Center diagnose heart problems and perform elective angioplasty, cardiac catheterizations, and pacemaker insertions here in Nashua.
The Joslin Diabetes Center affiliate at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center opened in August 2005. Located on the West Campus at 29 Northwest Boulevard, it is the first Joslin affiliate in New Hampshire. A team of endocrinologists, certified diabetes educators, including nurses and dietitians, as well as exercise specialists, work with diabetes patients and their primary care providers.
Collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston provides patients with access to specialty surgeons and oncologists for specialized care or second opinions
.
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
in Nashua
Nashua, New Hampshire
-Climate:-Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 86,494 people, 35,044 households, and 21,876 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,719.9 people per square mile . There were 37,168 housing units at an average density of 1,202.8 per square mile...
, New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
, USA
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, founded in 1891. A 188-bed acute facility, the hospital is now housed on two Nashua campuses with provider offices and rehabilitation clinics located throughout the greater Nashua area.
The Medical Center has one of the largest physician networks in southern New Hampshire with over 450 primary and specialty care providers.
partnerships with organizations such as Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is New Hampshire's only academic medical center and is headquartered on a campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley, in Lebanon, New Hampshire....
, Lahey Clinic
Lahey Clinic
The Lahey Clinic is a physician-led nonprofit teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine based in Burlington, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1923 by surgeon Frank H...
, Children's Hospital Boston
Children's Hospital Boston
Children's Hospital Boston is a 396-licensed bed children's hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area of Boston, Massachusetts.At 300 Longwood Avenue, Children's is adjacent both to its teaching affiliate, Harvard Medical School, and to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Joslin Diabetes Center
Joslin Diabetes Center
Joslin Diabetes Center is the world’s largest diabetes research center, diabetes clinic, and provider of diabetes education. It is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Among the Harvard Medical School Affiliated institutions, Joslin is unique in its sole...
, offer greater expertise to the community.
A $12 million construction project broke ground in July 2004 to expand emergency and cardiology services.
Through its affiliation with Lahey Clinic, the Medical Center was the first to bring angioplasty to Nashua in September 2004. Cardiologists at Lahey Cardiology at The Medical Center diagnose heart problems and perform elective angioplasty, cardiac catheterizations, and pacemaker insertions here in Nashua.
The Joslin Diabetes Center affiliate at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center opened in August 2005. Located on the West Campus at 29 Northwest Boulevard, it is the first Joslin affiliate in New Hampshire. A team of endocrinologists, certified diabetes educators, including nurses and dietitians, as well as exercise specialists, work with diabetes patients and their primary care providers.
Collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston provides patients with access to specialty surgeons and oncologists for specialized care or second opinions
Second opinion (medicine)
A second opinion is a visit to a physician other than the one a patient has previously been seeing in order to get a differing point-of-view. Second opinions may be sought by a patient under the following circumstances:*Physician recommends surgery....
.