Patients at Speare Memorial Hospital consistently rank the hospital’s cleanliness as high and often comment about it in satisfaction surveys. In charge of keeping Speare hygienic, Jerica Vallie, director of environmental services, knows best how to clean a home and keep the germs out. Part of a healthy lifestyle is ...

Most yoga classes are dominated by women. However, yoga is often recommended as a health practice for both men and women. Some even say that yoga classes are more fun and challenging than most gym workouts. As a man, you might not be ready to give up your current exercise habits ...

Premier Event Sponsor, Dr. Joan Kirschner (third from left) of Plymouth General Dentistry, joins (l-r) Speare’s Ruth Doane, Dental Hygienist, Michelle McEwen, CEO, and Cheryl Callnan, Director of Development at the 21st annual Speare Golf Classic. Despite ominous predictions of rain, the sun came out on June 6th for Speare’s ...

Remember when you could spend a leisurely summer day outdoors with little concern about ticks? With the tick population on the rise, those are bygone days. And the increase in ticks means a surge in the diseases they transmit. New Hampshire has one of the highest rates of Lyme disease ...

At least twice a year, you will see Mary Durgin at Speare Memorial Hospital. It’s not to see a physician or to have any kind of medical procedure. It’s to hand-deliver a donation from the trust set up years ago by her brother, George V. Durgin. “George and I grew ...

It’s time. Medical science has determined that weight loss surgery saves lives. Maybe it can save yours or the life of someone you know. After much anticipation, Plymouth General Surgery has opened its Weight Loss Surgery Center at Speare. Offering two of the most successful and widely performed procedures—gastric bypass ...