June 1 through Jun 5, 2015 is Wound Care Awareness Week. Currently 6.7 million patients are suffering with non-healing advanced wounds and that number is expected to rise at a rate of 2 percent annually over the next decade. Increased rates of diseases and conditions such as diabetes, obesity, the late effects ...

Speare’s Director of Community Relations Michele Hutchins and Millennium Integrated Marketing’s Digital Marketing Director Kyle Mallinger celebrate their two Lamplighter Awards presented by the New England Society of Healthcare Communicators. Speare won in conjunction with Millennium in two agency-produced categories. Speare Memorial Hospital has received regional and national recognition for ...

Speare Memorial Hospital has once again been named among the Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals in the nation. This designation comes from the National Rural Health Association based on Speare’s ranking on the Top 100 list from iVantage Health Analytics. The ranking is based on 62 publicly reported performance metrics ...

In our fast-paced, technology driven society, it’s important to stay connected on many levels. In addition to relaying news and information via tradition media sources like newspapers, radio and television, it is absolutely necessary to use today’s most popular websites to engage, interact and share information. These days, many of ...

Dr. Dana Merrithew of Speare Primary Care will take part in a panel discussion to address questions, regarding memory loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, related dementias and caregiving challenges. The discussion panel will follow a showing of the Academy Award winning movie "Still Alice" starring Julianne Moore, being shown at the Minot-Sleeper Library ...

National Hospital Week celebrates hospitals and the men and women who support the health of their communities through dedication and compassionate care. It also recognizes the miracles they help to make happen on a day to day basis, both large and small. Take this year's National Hospital Week as an ...