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|  | Kurt Lucas | | 603-444-9205 |
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Overview: Community Health Access
Overriding principle: “All rural Americans should have access to the full spectrum of high quality, appropriate health care, regardless of where they live.”
The Goals of LRH Community Health Access is to:
- Improve patient access to care;
- Strengthen our relationship with the Communities we serve;
- Strengthen our relationships with the Health Care Organizations/Agencies we partner and collaborate with;
- Strengthen our response to the Community Health and Health Prevention needs;
- Continually evaluate and review our service excellence in community health and access to care.
Community Health Access includes a wide range of inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and diagnostic services, including a 24-hour physician staffed emergency department with intercepting paramedics; designation by NH as a Level III Trauma Center, a birthing center; coronary care; intensive care; cardiac rehab; diagnostic imaging including MRI and spiral CT scanner; hand surgery; audiology-including newborn hearing screenings; hospice care; laboratory services; lithotripsy; mammography; occupational health services; oncology cancer clinics; orthopedics; rehabilitation services including physical therapy, occupational therapy, aquatic therapy, speech therapy and industrial therapy; surgical services and Veteran’s Administration outpatient care, etc.
LRH partners with Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, White Mountain Mental Health and Human Services, North Country Home Health and Hospice, North Country Health Consortium, Hospice of the Littleton Area, Littleton High School – Allied Health Program, North Country Transportation, Northern NH Emergency Medical Services Council, and the Area Health Emergency Planning Team and Quorum Health Resources (QHR), and others to coordinate and improve access to health, mental health and dental care and services in the North Country of New Hampshire.
As a Critical Care Hospital, LRH has elected to:
- Perform a community health needs assessment and implement programs and projects in an effort to address the expressed needs of the communities we serve.
- Provide free Paramedic Program in support of area Ambulance Services, responding to 266 advanced level calls in 2006.
- Provide for Community Participation: LRH is represented in the community by its partnerships with other health care organizations and by its employees’ affiliations with diverse professional, civic and service organizations.
- Provide the freeLittleton Regional Hospital Care-A-Van Program for scheduled rides to all members of the community who need to go to physician appointments, LRH diagnostic and patient support services.
- To sponsor the Northern New Hampshire Emergency Medical Services Conference, now in its 15th year provides continuing education for nearly 600 emergency medical personnel.
- Provide quality and timely training and education in EMS Patient care and Disaster Planning.
- Take active participation in Homeland Security (Medical/Public Health) issues – such as Bio and Chemical Terrorism Mitigation.
Department Director: Kurt Lucas, Director Community Health Access
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