Susan A. Reeves, EdD, RN, CENP, receives the Leslie A. Smith President’s Award from Steve Ahnen, president and CEO of the New Hampshire Hospital Association, at the Association’s annual meeting.
Susan A. Reeves, executive vice president of Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and chief nursing executive of the Dartmouth Health system, was honored at the NH Hospital Association’s (NHHA) annual meeting on Oct. 16 with the Leslie A. Smith President’s Award. The President’s Award is given to an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to the organization. The recipient is chosen for their dedicated service to the affairs, management, and/or creative growth of NHHA and its members. “During the pandemic, Dr. Reeves was focused on crisis standards of care—not just for her own hospital, but she wanted to make sure that all hospitals were aligned and supported,” says Steve Ahnen, president and CEO of NHHA. “Her motto was: ‘No one invokes crisis standards alone. We all work together to address and mitigate the pressure points from patient COVID-19 volumes at all hospitals across the state.’”
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Boston-based New Balance is investing $70 million to build a new manufacturing facility in Londonderry. This will be its sixth U.S. athletic footwear manufacturing facility. The Londonderry facility is expected to add more than 150 jobs at the 102,000-square-foot single-story building that is planned to begin production in 2025.
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Northeast Credit Union announced it will be relocating its corporate headquarters from Portmsouthn to 100 Education Way in Dover. The new headquarters is expected to be fully operational by early 2025. The new 100,000-square-foot Dover location is a central site for most of the credit union’s 400+ employees.
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City Arts Nashua, a nonprofit volunteer arts organization, announced it will cease operations at the end of the year after 20 years of service to the greater Nashua community. Formed in 2004, the organization’s mission has been to enrich the quality of life in the region by providing leadership to support and strengthen arts and culture. City Arts Nashua helped found and worked closely with the Nashua Arts Commission, and partnered with local artists and arts groups, community organizations, businesses, government and state and national arts organizations. For 19 years, the organization produced ArtWalk, a popular arts event, and since 2014 the Meri Goyette Art Awards and Luncheon, which recognized the contributions of non-arts community members and organizations to the regional arts landscape.
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Amanda Grappone Osmer, fourth generation steward of Grappone Mazda in Concord, has been for the 2024 TIME Dealer of the Year award. Osmer is one of 49 dealer nominees from across the country who will be honored at the 107th annual National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 3, 2024. The TIME Dealer of the Year award recognizes the nation’s most successful auto dealers who also demonstrate a long-standing commitment to community service. Osmer was chosen to represent the NH Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition.
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The Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation donated $10,000 to the Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation (COAST). Funds will help support the design and permit phase of constructing a new operations, maintenance and administration facility and to add an indoor bus storage facility in Dover. This capital project will replace COAST’s current facility.
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Merrimack County Savings Bank (The Merrimack) in Concord donated $7,500 to HOMEteam to support education, support and providing the tools needed to make good financial decisions when it comes to purchasing, renting, or maintaining a home.
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Barcode label manufacturer Electronic Imaging Materials in Keene invested in a new Xeikon Panther PX2200 inkjet press at its Keene facility to be more energy efficient.
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Summit on Juniper at 401 Mt. Support Road in Lebanon, a community developed by Michaels Student Living to provide graduate student housing for Dartmouth College, was awarded Gold Level LEED Certification. North Branch Construction in Concord constructed the four four-story apartment buildings awarded the Gold Level LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Family-owned automotive dealership group DCD Automotive Holdings, based in Norwood, Mass., expanded its family of dealerships to include Nissan of Keene, now known as the Nucar Nissan of Keene. This is their 25th dealership.
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After nearly four years as executive director of Canterbury Shaker Village, Leslie Nolan will be stepping away from her position with the Village in May 2024.
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Cheshire Medical Center in Keene opened a new family medicine practice, Family & Community Care, at its West Campus location at 62 Maple Ave. on Oct. 9. It is the primary care clinic associated with the Family Medicine Residency.
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