A brilliant blue sky and bright sun provided a spectacular backdrop for Speare Memorial Hospital’s 17th Annual Golf Classic that took place on June 11, supporting the Dental Health Program.  Nearly 200 golfers teed up for the event held at Owl’s Nest  Resort  & Golf Club in Campton, helping to ...

Dr. Richards looks back at his career as retirement comes into focus  By Michele Hutchins, Director of Community Relations Dr. John Richards was only two working days into his retirement when we sat down to talk about his 37 year career as an ophthalmologist—35 of which were spent serving the ...

By Ron Reynolds, RehabFIT Member  Why did you choose Choice Physical Therapy/RehabFIT? Unlike most fitness centers, RehabFIT has a medical component to their program.  In February of 2014, I was diagnosed with cancer and after chemotherapy I needed to gain my strength and fitness back.  Rehab FIT was just the ...

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 ...