Dartmouth Health
Academic health system and medical education
Manager of Specialty Programs
The role covers the Upper Valley and surrounding areas.
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in nursing from an accredited college or university is required; each year of approved experience may substitute for one year of education.
- Two years of experience in a direct supervisory role is required.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills are required.
- Proficiency with electronic medical records, Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint is required.
- An active, unencumbered registered nurse license in Vermont or New Hampshire is required at hire; active unencumbered registered nurse licenses in both states are required within 30 days of hire.
- A valid driver's license with a clean driving record is required.
- Current car insurance meeting minimum standards is required.
- Basic Life Support certification is required within 90 days of hire.
- Lead the operational rollout and day-to-day oversight of specialty care models across the agency's service lines.
- Partner with clinical leaders to drive care continuity and transitions, focusing on clinical excellence at the point of care and moving patients seamlessly through the continuum of care.
- Contribute to the annual budget; monitor patient revenues, clinical and operational expenses, and staff productivity; report variances to the Director; and take appropriate actions to meet or exceed budget targets.
- Monitor key performance indicators and create action plans to improve results.
- Manage employees by hiring, onboarding, managing performance, and supporting growth and development.
- Provide frequent in-field shadowing of direct care staff.
- Drive process improvement and change management activities to improve patient outcomes within specialty programs.
- Ensure clinician documentation is timely, accurate, and compliant with payer or Medicare requirements.
- Serve as a clinical and operational resource and manage relationships with physicians, hospitals, and community stakeholders.
- Program management or leadership experience in a home health or hospice setting.
- Understanding of Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation, transitional care, and clinical appropriateness guidelines.
About the company
Dartmouth Health is an academic health system and New Hampshire’s largest private employer that serves northern New England. It delivers care through DHMC and a wide network of hospitals, clinics, and care facilities with more than 2,000 providers across nearly all specialties. The system includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, Dartmouth Health Children’s (the state’s only children’s hospital), and Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire, plus 24+ ambulatory clinics. It combines patient care with education and research by training about 400 medical residents and fellows annually and conducting clinical trials with Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, aiming to provide exceptional, personal care to communities.
Company Size
201-500
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Headquarters
Lebanon, New Hampshire
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What believers are saying
- June 30, 2026 COO Jonathan Welch brings Geisinger-style operational discipline across shared services.
- July 16, 2026 NIH awarded $11.8 million for CASI, strengthening research prestige.
- June 25 and September 10, 2026 gifts fund Hospital at Home and pediatric modernization.
What critics are saying
- September 15, 2026 layoffs eliminated 124 jobs and 303 openings, signaling deeper margin pain.
- June 2026 bondholder filings showed a $63.5 million loss; cost controls still failed.
- Barsky's April 2026 whistleblower suit and the Medicaid tax fight expose governance and funding risk.
What makes Dartmouth Health unique
- Dartmouth Health combines New Hampshire's only academic system, Geisel, and 16,000 employees.
- Its TeleHealth, Hospital at Home, and rural specialty networks fit Northern New England geography.
- Tom Golisano's $30 million gift validates Dartmouth Health Children's as a regional pediatric anchor.
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Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire's largest private employer, announced Tuesday it is cutting 124 jobs and cancelling 303 open positions at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Southern Region. The healthcare provider will also restructure executive roles and administrative leadership whilst eliminating select programmes. CEO and President Joanne Conroy cited rising labour, supply, and drug costs as the reason for the cuts. She said the difficult decision was necessary to ensure the organisation remains sustainable whilst continuing to serve patients. Conroy expressed confidence that patient care would not be negatively impacted by the reductions. The affected employees include some who have served the organisation for many years.
Hundreds of layoffs announced at the 2 largest healthcare networks Vermonters rely on. Dartmouth Health is cutting over 420 positions while University of Vermont Health lays off 199 staff. by Olivia Gieger September 15, 2026, 5:37 pm Hundreds of layoffs are underway at the two major healthcare networks Vermonters rely on. Facing similar financial challenges, both Dartmouth Health and the University of Vermont Health network announced the cuts Tuesday ahead of the Oct. 1 start to hospitals' fiscal year. UVM Health is in the process of laying off 199 staffers, according to a letter that network CEO Steve Leffler sent employees Tuesday. The layoffs include the closure of two patient care units, according to a separate release from the hospital. The cuts at UVM Health are expected to save $16.8 million, the network said Tuesday. Across the Connecticut River, 124 Dartmouth Health employees learned that their positions are being terminated, according to a release Tuesday from the New Hampshire-based hospital network. The network canceled an additional 303 open positions at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and at its clinics in the region. Vermonters rely heavily on care from Dartmouth Health, which includes the medical center, Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in Windsor, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington and six other New Hampshire hospitals. About 40% of Dartmouth Hitchcock's patients are Vermonters, said Audra Burns, a spokesperson for the network. Dartmouth Health. Earlier this year, Dartmouth Health began to interrogate spending in light of its financial challenges - but Tuesday marked the first major layoffs. An early sign of change came this summer when the network confirmed its intention to close its Tele-ICU and Tele-ED services, which the network had identified as unsustainable without outside investment. Those telehealth services are among the three programs the network said it would eliminate as part of Tuesday's layoffs. Dartmouth Health also wants to end a collaborative group it has run for 17 years across community hospitals, behavioral health centers and home health agencies throughout northern New England, called the New England Alliance for Health. Additionally, the network plans to close an employee training program and instead outsource it. Dartmouth Health's staff reductions are part of a larger plan to curb spending and increase revenue. The network emphasized work it's already done to reduce the amount it spends on temporary traveling clinicians and on sending its own staff to conferences. The network also stressed Tuesday its efforts to review operating costs like contracts and supplies, and its efforts to expand staff capacity to care for more patients. In April, the hospital system created a new office specifically to address the organization's financial health. The next month, Dartmouth Health told its bondholders that it had operated at a $63.5 million loss between October 2025 and March 2026, according to reporting by the Valley News. "The employees affected by these changes have made meaningful contributions to Dartmouth Health, our patients and our communities," Dr. Joanne Conroy, Dartmouth Health's CEO and president, wrote in the Tuesday release. "Some have spent many years serving this organization. The decision to eliminate a position or program does not diminish the value of the work these colleagues have done and the contributions they have made." UVM Health. UVM Health is no stranger to cuts. The Tuesday layoffs are the latest in a long series of expense reduction measures, including job cuts, that the hospital has already taken. "This is not the first or the last step we'll need to take to make our health system more sustainable," Leffler wrote in his Tuesday letter to staff. Annie Mackin, a spokesperson for the hospital group, said the network had been in the process of figuring out how to best make these reductions well before the Green Mountain Care Board's Monday ruling for the hospital to cut its revenue even further. The layoffs span all six hospitals in the network's New York and Vermont footprint, including at Helen Porter Rehabilitation & Nursing and the network's Home Health and Hospice Services, a release from the hospital detailed. by Olivia Gieger September 15, 2026, 1:57 pm UVM Medical Center now intends to close a general medicine unit and care for those patients on a similarly equipped floor. It is also consolidating an alternative care unit. Mackin said those moves were possible because the unit has had lower numbers of patients recently. UVM Medical Center has also pushed to reduce patients' lengths of stay, she said. The layoffs at UVMMC account for 118 of the total positions affected. At Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, three mental health technicians are among the 24 total positions being cut. The total includes patient safety attendants, who sit and observe patients who are at risk of harming themselves. Earlier this year, UVM Medical Center significantly reduced how many of those safety observers work in that hospital. Central Vermont Medical Center plans to re-post 11 of those roles with changed responsibilities. UVM Health has also consolidated or cut 28 positions in human resources, information technology and community health. The changes are designed to reduce duplication across the health system, a release from UVM Health said, rather than eliminate the services altogether. A joint press release from the Vermont Federation of Nurses, which includes nursing staff across UVM Health, and Health Professionals & Support Staff United - the union of technicians, nursing assistants and others - estimated that about 90 union members were among those laid off. "We are deeply concerned by these decisions - above all for the safety and wellbeing of our patients," the release said. "Management has yet to provide plans for how quality patient care will continue to (be) delivered to our community. These cuts to care come after years of exorbitant costs to Vermonters, and million dollar salaries for executives. If UVM Health is serious about fiscal sustainability, they would reverse short-sighted cuts to patient-facing roles, and partner with our unions to champion systemic healthcare reform." The two unions have an all-day bargaining session with the hospital scheduled for Wednesday, following the expiration of both unions' contracts. The layoffs will take effect by the end of October, Leffler wrote in his letter to staff.
Dartmouth Health Children's joins Golisano Children's Alliance with transformational $30 million gift. * By Newsroom * September 10th, 2026 It is with great pride that I provide this important investment to the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, marking its transition to a Golisano Children's Hospital and welcoming them into the Golisano Children's Alliance. Tom Golisano Dartmouth Health Children's, the region's most comprehensive pediatric health system, has received a philanthropic investment of $30 million from entrepreneur and visionary child health leader Tom Golisano. In recognition of this gift, Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD), the only children's hospital in New Hampshire, will be renamed to Golisano Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Health in perpetuity. This is the largest philanthropic gift Dartmouth Health has ever received and will be a catalyst for growing capabilities by enhancing the workforce and accelerating priority projects to modernize critical spaces at the children's hospital and to expand services at Dartmouth Health Children's clinics in southern New Hampshire. "It is with great pride that I provide this important investment to the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, marking its transition to a Golisano Children's Hospital and welcoming them into the Golisano Children's Alliance," said Tom Golisano. "This investment is intended to elevate pediatric care by advancing services and building a new, modern Intensive Care Nursery and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit to address the needs of the sickest babies and children and their families. With this shared vision, the hospital will strengthen its position in pediatric medicine, providing life-changing care of the highest quality with dignity to children and their families." In 2025, Mr. Golisano launched the Golisano Children's Alliance, a national initiative that provides strategic funding and brings together children's hospitals across the United States to elevate pediatric care by expanding services, strengthening collaboration, and ensuring that children and families have access to the highest-quality medical attention close to home. This investment will drive a leading-edge, complete renovation of the critical care units at the children's hospital in Lebanon, NH. It will support the construction of newly designed and fully equipped state-of-the-art individual patient and family rooms in the Intensive Care Nursery, while a transformation and expansion of the hospital's Pediatric Critical Care Unit will create a more functional space for the region's most acutely ill and injured pediatric patients - bringing the top-tier standards of the highest specialty care to more children and families than ever before in the hospital's history. "I have profound gratitude to Tom Golisano for his generous investment in children and families across our region," said Keith J. Loud, physician-in-chief of Dartmouth Health Children's. "We are honored to join the Golisano Children's Alliance and excited to collaborate with such a select group of leading children's hospitals to share knowledge that allows all of us to deliver the best care, where it matters most - close to home." "This gift will accelerate the growth of pediatric healthcare in the ways our communities need it most: reimagined neonatal and critical care facilities, an expansion of pediatric specialty services closer to home, and new ways to connect our rural health system to a national network of excellence," said Joanne M. Conroy, MD, CEO and president of Dartmouth Health. "At its core, it ensures we will always meet families where they are, in their most difficult moments, with both expertise and compassion. We are honored to carry the Golisano name forward in service of our shared mission." This announcement is part of a recent $225 million investment by Golisano, which includes five other children's hospitals joining the Alliance: Children's Minnesota, Johns Hopkins All Children's, Renown Health, Children's Hospital Colorado and Vanderbilt Health's Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital. The addition of these hospitals brings the total number of Golisano Children's Alliance hospitals to 21 across the U.S., past the halfway mark toward Golisano's goal of 40. Golisano is the founder of Paychex, the nation's largest human resource company for small to medium-sized businesses, and the Golisano Foundation, one of the nation's largest foundations dedicated to supporting programs for people with intellectual disabilities. About:Tom Golisano, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader, is the founder of Paychex, Inc., the nation's largest human resource company for small to medium-sized businesses. Mr. Golisano's vision, perseverance, and action have left an indelible mark on a broad spectrum of issues that touch its lives - in business, healthcare, education, animal welfare, voter policies, politics, and tax reform. His investments are advancing entrepreneurship and driving the success of numerous businesses and start-ups. His philanthropic contributions to education, hospitals - including multiple children's hospitals across the country that bear his name and numerous other organizations exceed $1 billion. A fierce advocate for dignity and inclusion, in 1985 Tom Golisano applied his pioneering spirit to establish the Golisano Foundation to make the world a better place for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. With more than $120 million in gross assets, it is one of the largest private foundations in the U.S. devoted to supporting programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities awarding grants to non-profit organizations in Western New York and Southwest Florida. Mr. Golisano formed and financially supports the Golisano Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship, where students receive a high quality business certificate and write their own entrepreneurial success stories, without having to take on enormous debt. He is the author of two Books, "Built Not Born," a Wall Street Journal best seller and "The Italian Kid Did It." About Dartmouth Health Children's. Dartmouth Health Children's is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region with the first integrative medicine children's hospital in the country. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) in Lebanon, NH, Dartmouth Health Children's promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient- and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children's conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled, inclusive, and collaborative children's health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. A unique partnership between DH and the state of New Hampshire provides the only inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents in the state at Hampstead Hospital. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at more than 20 locations, including all Dartmouth Health member locations, throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.
Three Dartmouth Health employees honored as 2026 NH Healthcare Heroes. * September 9th, 2026 Three Dartmouth Health employees, including one from Cheshire Medical Center, were recognized as 2026 New Hampshire Healthcare Heroes for their dedication to the field. The honorees are Alyssa Bostwick, CMA, a certified medical assistant at Cheshire Medical Center (Cheshire), Ravinder Kang, MD, surgical oncologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), and Justin Looser, MSW, MBA, chief executive officer of Hampstead Hospital. Bostwick was honored for consistently making patients feel comfortable, cared for and treated with dignity. Whether offering reassurance during difficult moments or stepping in to help with responsibilities beyond her role, she is known for her unwavering commitments to patients and teammates. Kang was recognized for the compassion and empathy she brings to every patient interaction. Colleagues and patients describe her as a source of comfort during some of life's most difficult moments, helping patients navigate complex diagnoses with kindness while ensuring they understand their care plans. As CEO of Hampstead Hospital, Looser was recognized for his empathy and hands-on leadership in serving some of New Hampshire's most vulnerable children. In addition to leading the organization, he is known for working alongside staff, including on weekends, to help wherever needed, from cleaning units to supporting frontline teams. The New Hampshire Healthcare Heroes program recognizes healthcare professionals across the state who go above and beyond in service to their patients, colleagues, and communities. Established in 2020 by employer and community partners of the Healthcare Sector Partnership Initiative (SPI), the annual program celebrates individuals whose compassion, leadership and commitment exemplify the best of New Hampshire's healthcare workforce. Bostwick was celebrated at a ceremony at Cheshire on Aug. 14 and Kang was recognized during a ceremony at DHMC on July 31. Looser will be recognized at Hampstead Hospital in September.
Dartmouth Health ending telehealth services for rural hospitals. Published: Aug. 21, 2026 at 3:17 PM PDT | Updated: 1 hour ago ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) - Rural hospitals across Vermont and New Hampshire are losing a direct line to specialists during emergencies. Dartmouth Health is discontinuing telehealth services for emergency and intensive care programs that let smaller hospitals consult Dartmouth specialists during life-threatening emergencies. Hospital leaders in St. Albans, Brattleboro and northern New Hampshire said they didn't lean on the service every day, but it significantly improved the quality of care, especially in rural communities. When a rural ER or ICU can't safely treat a critical patient, doctors transfer them to a bigger hospital. For the Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, the closest option is the UVM Medical Center, 25 miles away. "You know that is a very stressful time for loved ones and that added distance is a barrier and a complication, and so I think people appreciate when possible being able to stay in their own community," said Jonathan Billings of the Northwestern Medical Center. Dartmouth's TeleICU and TeleEmergency programs helped hospitals avoid that trip, connecting local teams to specialists for critical cases like cardiac arrest and major trauma. "My emergency room colleagues sometimes rely on this, let's say, in the middle of the night when you have fewer people on the ground," said Aida Avdic, the chief medical officer at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. That expert backup meant fewer transfers. "It allowed us to have expert consultation on patients that historically we might have just automatically transferred," Billings said. Last year, North Country Healthcare, which operates hospitals in Berlin and Lancaster, New Hampshire, used TeleICU for 211 patients and TeleEmergency for 105 more. "That doesn't sound like a lot, but when you need it, you need it. It's sort of like having a specialist in your back pocket," said Tom Mee, the CEO of North Country Healthcare. But that access came at a cost: hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for some hospitals. Dartmouth Health says that cost is no longer sustainable for them, either. In a statement, the health network said the programs "at our current scale, without external support, are simply unsustainable." There is no final sunset date set, and Dartmouth says it will work with all 13 affected hospitals on alternative care plans first. Both Brattleboro Memorial and NMC are still working out next steps, while North Country Healthcare is already searching nationwide for a new telehealth partner. "This service could be located anywhere, and in fact, if you look at the major players, most of them will be out of state," Mee said. But Mee said they will miss having a local partner. "If it was a complicated patient that needed tertiary support, chances are Dartmouth was going to receive that patient anyway, so from a continuity of care perspective, that was a benefit," Mee said. All three hospital leaders said they see this as part of a larger shift in healthcare funding, one forcing even a system the size of Dartmouth to reconsider what it can sustain. Dartmouth did recently land a $4 million grant for a new rural telehealth platform, but emergency and intensive care aren't on the list of services it will cover.