Foundation for Healthy Communities
News Release

September 26, 2000 

Contact: Carolyn Edy, Communications Director
(603) 225-0900


FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES HONORS OUTSTANDING SERVICE IN HEALTHCARE

(Concord, NH) – The Foundation for Healthy Communities recently honored local healthcare professionals and organizations for extraordinary ingenuity, creativity and skill in improving health or healthcare access, delivery or quality. The awards were presented at the New Hampshire Hospital Association and Foundation for Healthy Communities Annual Meeting at the Balsams in Dixville Notch.

Victoria Flanagan, an outreach nurse for CHaD/Obstetric Regional Services at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, was honored with an Innovators Award for her extraordinary effort on the Foundation’s Healthy Mom/Healthy Baby book. This comprehensive guide to prenatal care, childbirth and postpartum care was co-authored by more than 50 clinicians around the state and is given to every mother in New Hampshire on her first prenatal visit.

Emily Baker, M.D., and Michele Lauria, M.D., both Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, were honored with Innovators Awards for co-authoring Special Situations, an addendum to Healthy Mom/Healthy Baby, to help mothers who have complicated pregnancies.

Suzanne Boulter, M.D., a pediatrician at the Capital Region Family Health Center in Concord and faculty member at the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency Program, received an Innovators Award for her work on Growing Up Healthy. This comprehensive guide to health, development, safety, nutrition and local family resources for children from birth to age 6 is given to parents of all newborns in New Hampshire.

Derry Medical Practice and Memorial Medical Associates received Innovators Awards for leadership in The New Hampshire Risky Drinking Prevention Project – a new approach in primary care that helps people at risk of developing an alcohol problem to understand their drinking behavior and make changes to prevent more serious health problems. The project is part of a national study on the prevention of alcoholism, supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Finally, Senate President Beverly Hollingworth presented the Foundation’s Leadership Award to Cheshire Medical Center of Keene. Cheshire’s prescription assistance program has helped more than 2,000 people who could not otherwise have afforded their prescriptions. Cheshire’s program is a model for The New Hampshire Medication Bridge Program, the Foundation’s newest initiative.

The Foundation for Healthy Communities is a nonprofit corporation that exists to improve health and healthcare through the creation of partnerships with health providers and other organizations in northern New England.