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Southern New Hampshire Health
Southern New Hampshire Health
	Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, the flagship campus of Southern New Hampshire Health System
Geography
Location	8 Prospect St., Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Organization
Care system	Private
Type	Community
Affiliated university	Dartmouth Medical School
Services
Emergency department	Level III trauma center
Beds	188
Helipad	Yes (FAA LID: NH37)
History
Opened	1893
Links
Website	www.snhhealth.org
Lists	Hospitals in New Hampshire

Southern New Hampshire Health is a system of hospitals and medical centers throughout the southern part of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is anchored by the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center (SNHMC), located in Nashua. The hospital was founded in 1893 as Nashua Memorial Hospital and is now a 188-bed regional medical facility that serves an estimated 100,000 patients a year in the southern New Hampshire region. SNHMC has over 500 primary and specialty care providers. SNHMC offers a full suite of health services, including a trauma center, newborn intensive care unit and distinguished programs in endoscopy, orthopedic surgery, gastroenterology, cardiology and neurosurgery.^{[citation needed]}

Clinical affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital[edit]

Southern New Hampshire Health System is a clinical affiliate of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).^[1]

Magnet designation[edit]

In 2006, SNHMC was designated as a Magnet hospital in recognition of nursing excellence,^{[citation needed]} one of 386^{[citation needed]} hospitals worldwide that have such a designation. SNHMC has also been recognized by the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.^{[citation needed]}

Additional partnerships[edit]

Foundation Medical Partners (FMP) is an employed medical group of nearly 300 health care providers, under the same parent organization of Southern New Hampshire Health System. In 2018, SNHHS joined with Elliot Health System based in Manchester, New Hampshire, to create a regional health system SolutionHealth.

History[edit]

The facility was founded in 1893 as Nashua Memorial Hospital, an eight-bed emergency hospital. For 62 years, the hospital ran the Nashua Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, one of the only sources of professional training in the area for nurses. In 1979, Nashua Memorial Hospital opened the Surgical Short Stay Unit for same-day surgeries, and the hospital continued to expand and improve over the following decades. A $12 million construction project broke ground in July 2004 to expand emergency and cardiology services.^{[citation needed]}