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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Bill Kelly became the executive director at the Veterans Northeast Outreach Center without the usual elation associated with such a promotion.The weight of the role settled heavily on his shoulders, as it came in the wake of devastating news. The...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Gavin Dubois sometimes doesn’t have the words to express how he feels. But when he picks up a pair of drumsticks, he can read his emotions as clearly as notes on a sheet of music. Amid the sounds of the snare, the melodies of his marimba, his rage...

 By JACQUELINE COLE

John Broderick is accustomed to talking to children about youth mental health, but on Wednesday, it was the parents who listened. Broderick relayed the words of a high school hockey player who confided in him: “I don’t think I ever had a childhood.”“I...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A decade of overwhelming challenges in New Hampshire’s mental health sector has reached a milestone after a federal judge ruled that the state must cease the practice of prolonged confinement for psychiatric patients in hospital emergency rooms.“I am...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Alison Palmer thought she had motherhood figured out after her first pregnancy.Her son Matt was a dream baby. He followed a predictable feeding schedule and slept on schedule like clockwork. But with her second son Ryan, it was completely different....

By RAY DUCKLER

After years of searching for some clarity, former Pembroke Academy basketball star Noah Cummings of Epsom knows his anxiety attacks will return.And that took a while to accept.Cummings doesn’t know when it will strike again, nor can he possibly...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — On a recent afternoon in late April, “Felix” lay in a new hospital room in the recently completed patient pavilion at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.Short of breath, but in stable condition, Felix was in a bed in the heart and vascular...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Taking a day off from work is a luxury that farmers cannot afford.This particular reality is something that Cameron Huftalen is all too familiar with, having grown up in a family of farmers in Henniker.With Huftalen’s grandparents working on a dairy...

By HELEN HANKS, LISA MADDEN and CYNTHIA WHITAKER

Helen Hanks is commissioner of the NH Department of Corrections and lives in Tilton. Lisa Madden is president & CEO of Riverbend and lives in Litchfield. Cynthia Whitaker, PsyD, MLADC, is president & CEO of Greater Nashua Mental Health and lives in...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

After evaluating potential locations, a state-commissioned firm has recommended Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment Facility as the best site for replacing the Sununu Youth Services Center.The new facility will serve as a secure and...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

When Jagger Reep moved into his own apartment, it was his first taste of independence. His mom, Melissa, scoured Salvation Army and Goodwill to piece together the one-bedroom unit, coming back with a bed frame, couch, coffee table and more to help her...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state’s largest insurance company, owes the state’s hospitals nearly $300 million in unpaid claims, according to a report released Wednesday by the New Hampshire Hospital Association. It said Anthem has not...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Reproductive health care providers reassured patients Monday that pill abortions will remain legal, safe, and available in New Hampshire – even if a Texas federal court judge succeeds in blocking access to one of the two medications used.They...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Two and a half months have passed since the state Attorney General’s Office began investigating a fatal police shooting of a Gilford teenager by a police officer.Attorney General investigations into fatal police shootings are made public once they are...

By DANIEL MUDD

A Department of Health and Human Services  report released in January 2023, determined a feasibility study is required before the agency can move forward with its investigation of a cancer cluster in Merrimack.But moving forward hinges on securing...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Riverbend Community Mental Health will receive part of a $500,000 grant to help meet the behavioral health needs of the children and families in the community, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic.“Recognizing that New Hampshire has a long way...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Lisa Colburn, a schoolteacher who lives in Weare, woke up to a knock on her front door and bright blue lights flashing outside.On a Saturday night in December two years ago, the police had come to ask for her daughter. She had texted a friend about...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Hearing President Joe Biden address mental health to the entire nation was an important night for Susan Stearns.“Each of us can be ambassadors and have a role to play in dispelling stigma, and ensuring folks hang on to hope, seek the care that they...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

Health care providers in New Hampshire are pushing for a major increase in Medicaid rates this year, saying it would help them address increasingly dire staff shortages.During a hearing Wednesday, health care leaders told lawmakers that the...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has spent millions to expand mental health treatment in the last two years. Yet those who need it are still waiting. In emergency rooms, some for days. At home for a mobile crisis team that’s an hour-plus away. For a counseling appointment....