Southern New Hampshire Health is a system of hospitals and medical centers throughout the southern part of the state of
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
in the
United States
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. It is anchored by the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center (SNHMC), located in
Nashua Nashua may refer to:
* Nashaway people, Native American tribe living in 17th-century New England
Places
In Australia:
* Nashua, New South Wales
In the United States:
* Nashua, California
* Nashua, Iowa
* Nashua, Minnesota
* Nashua, Kansas City ...
. The hospital was founded in 1893 as Nashua Memorial Hospital and is now a 188-bed regional medical facility that serves an estimated 100,000 patients a year in the southern New Hampshire region. SNHMC has over 500 primary and specialty care providers. SNHMC offers a full suite of health services, including a trauma center, newborn intensive care unit and distinguished programs in endoscopy, orthopedic surgery, gastroenterology, cardiology and neurosurgery.
Clinical affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital
Southern New Hampshire Health System is a clinical affiliate of
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United Stat ...
(MGH).
Magnet designation
In 2006, SNHMC was designated as a
Magnet hospital in recognition of nursing excellence, one of 386 hospitals worldwide that have such a designation. SNHMC has also been recognized by the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
Additional partnerships
Foundation Medical Partners (FMP) is an employed medical group of nearly 300 health care providers, under the same parent organization of Southern New Hampshire Health System. In 2018, SNHHS joined with
Elliot Health System based in
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the most populous city in New Hampshire. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 115,644.
Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Hamp ...
, to create a regional health system SolutionHealth.
History
The facility was founded in 1893 as Nashua Memorial Hospital, an eight-bed emergency hospital. For 62 years, the hospital ran the Nashua Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, one of the only sources of professional training in the area for nurses. In 1979, Nashua Memorial Hospital opened the Surgical Short Stay Unit for same-day surgeries, and the hospital continued to expand and improve over the following decades. A $12 million construction project broke ground in July 2004 to expand emergency and cardiology services.
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Hospitals in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Hospital buildings completed in 1893
Buildings and structures in Nashua, New Hampshire
Hospitals established in 1893
1893 establishments in New Hampshire