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With more than 800 health care professionals and
state-of-the-art facilities; Concord’s thriving medical
community provides residents with first class care. The area
offers several types of hospitals and a growing number of
outpatient clinics. High-tech equipment and up-to-date
treatments at the area's modern health care facilities ensure
that residents receive the quality service they deserve.
The largest medical
facility in the area is Concord Hospital, a private,
not-for-profit, acute-care hospital that serves about 117,000
people in its primary service area. The hospital has had full
accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations since 1951.
Licensed for 295 beds and
generally staffed for 200 beds, Concord Hospital serves as a
regional referral center and is a designated Level II Trauma
Center, providing 24-hour emergency services.
There are more than 200
physicians on Concord Hospital's medical staff. Some of the
most advanced medical technology and a wide range of specialty
services are offered, including the Concord Hospital Center
for Cardiac Care and the Day Surgery Center. The hospital is
well known for its short-term psychiatric care unit and for
The Family Place, a family-oriented maternity, women's health
and pediatric unit, as well as its many outpatient programs
such as nutritional counseling, orthopedics, urology and back
injury prevention program.
In 1998, cardiac surgery
was added to Concord Hospital's Center for Cardiac Care, which
includes cardiac catheterization, cardiac critical care
nursing and cardiac rehabilitation, as well as cardiac disease
education and prevention programs.
With a consulting staff of
more than 75 physician specialists, the Commission on
Accreditation approves HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital for
Rehabilitation Facilities. The facility provides spinal cord,
stroke, pediatric, orthopedic, amputee and brain injury
rehabilitation programs. Other services include physical
medicine and rehabilitation nursing, physical therapy,
respiratory therapy, neuropsychology, vocational evaluation
and counseling, and orthotic and prosthetic services.
The New Hampshire Hospital,
an inpatient mental health facility, serves the entire state
and offers transitional and psychiatric nursing home services.
The facility's transitional housing service handles long-term
residents with severe and persistent mental illness, and
serves those individuals who are both developmentally disabled
and have long-term psychiatric impairments.
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