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Sean Clancy, AVP of corporate and community education at Great Bay Community College (GBCC) in Portsmouth and Rochester. Photo: GBCC

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This Week’s Spotlight: Great Bay Community College (GBCC), which has campuses in Portsmouth and Rochester, hired Sean Clancy as AVP of corporate and community education. Clancy, chair of the student development advisory board at GBCC, has over 30 years of business experience, most recently working as manager of leadership development at Legacy Supply Chain Services in Portsmouth. He will oversee the college’s Business and Training Center and WorkReady NH divisions, which provide professional development and entry level training options for the workforce of the greater seacoast region.

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Androscoggin Valley Hospital (AVH) in Berlin hired Todd Hope as medical director of its hospitalist and care management services.  Hope most recently worked as a hospitalist at Weeks Medical Center in Lancaster. AVH’s hospitalist program provides patients with the same physician for consecutive days, who then communicates directly with the patient’s primary care provider to keep them informed of the patient’s condition. 

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DNV Healthcare USA, Inc., a healthcare accreditation organization, recertified Concord Hospital as a Primary Stroke Center hospital for another three years.  As part of its review, DNV inspected actual and potential patient outcomes, as well as required processes followed by the hospital’s stroke team. DNV surveyors assessed the care provided at Concord Hospital, including the appropriateness of the care and hospital services within the context of the certification requirements.

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Families First Health and Support Center in Portsmouth hired Kimberly Chase O’Mahoney as a family nurse practitioner. O’Mahoney previously worked as a family nurse practitioner at Portland Community Health Center in Maine. She will be the lead provider in Families First’s Well Child program and will also see adult patients.

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Melissa Albano-Davis, principal of Grapevine Marketing in Manchester, was appointed to the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Entrepreneurs’ Fund of New Hampshire (EFNH) advisory board.  EFNH is an entrepreneurial network established to make grants and partner with nonprofits to support NH communities.

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The HNH Foundation in Concord, which funds children's health initiatives, appointed four new members to its board of directors. Appointees include Thomas A. Clairmont, retired CEO of LRG Healthcare in Franklin and Laconia; Lisa Kaplan Howe, senior adviser at Public Consulting Group in Portsmouth; Randi S. Tillman, dental director for Northeast Delta Dental in Concord; and Barbara Wauchope, former director of the Carsey Evaluation Program at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

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Market Square Architects PLLC in Portsmouth hired Jason Nieuweboer as a project manager.  Nieuweboer has seven years of experience, working on both residential and commercial projects. Market Square Architects, a start-up firm located at the Kearsarge House, focuses on residential and commercial projects in the Seacoast region.

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Meredith Village Savings Bank (MVSB) hired Kelly Beebee as a mortgage loan originator in the bank’s Center Harbor office. Beebee has worked at MVSB since 2006, most recently as branch and business development manager of the Bank’s Plymouth Main Street office.

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Merrimack County Savings Bank in Concord pledged $20,000 to the Individual Development Account (IDA) Collaborative through the Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA) of New Hampshire’s tax credit program. The IDA program, coordinated by the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund in Concord, offers matched-savings accounts with which participants can purchase a home, or pay for college or technical school. After completing an eight-hour financial literacy seminar, participants receive an $8 match for every dollar saved up to $500, for a potential total of $4,500.

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Parkland Medical Center in Derry promoted Julie A. Abbott to assistant chief nursing officer. Abbott has almost 20 years of nursing experience, most recently working as Parkland’s director of adult & critical care services.

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Piscataqua Savings Bank in Portsmouth donated $5,000 to Families First Health and Support Center to support its mobile dental services for homeless and other low-income people in the seacoast region. The mobile dental program assisted 470 homeless patients in 996 visits last year at Cross Roads House in Portsmouth, St. Vincent de Paul Community Assistance Center in Exeter and its new site at the Salvation Army in Rochester.

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Marjorie and Richard Buessing, owners of True Confections Candies & Gifts in Concord for over 20 years, sold the business to Paul and Sue Foskitt of Raymond. True Confections, located at the Steeplegate Mall, sells candies and chocolates and makes its own fudge on-site. Gilbert Oriol of New Hampshire Business Sales, Inc. in Pembroke coordinated the sale.