Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

Industry:	Hospitals & Clinics
Employees:	1,700

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Wentworth-Douglass Hospital was conceived as a 30 bed hospital on March 15, 1904 when the Dover City Council accepted "the receipt in trust of a legacy under the will of the late Arioch Wentworth" who gave "to the town of Dover, NH, for a hospital to be called the Wentworth", one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). The hospital opened on August 30, 1906.

The Wentworth Hospital consisted of three cottage-type buildings connected by corridors - the Men's Ward, Women's Ward and Nurse's Home and administrative building.

All that remains today of the original buildings is a stone wall along Central Avenue. In 1982, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital became the first Seacoast hospital to be designated as a trauma center and that same year the hospital separated from the city and incorporated as a non-profit community hospital.

Today, Wentworth-Douglass is licensed for 178 beds making it the largest acute care hospital in the Seacoast. The hospital strives to meet the medical needs of the community it serves, changing as times change. But just as in 1906, the patient is still the center of our timeless tradition of providing the best in compassionate and comprehensive care.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire, Elliot Hospital Announce Renewed Contract, Quality Initiative. Biotech Week; 8/26/2009 ...Hospital, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Littleton Regional Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital. "We are happy to have extended our agreement and partnership with Elliot Hospital," said Douglas J... ...more

Doctors in New Hampshire Now Treating Cancer with Non-Invasive Image-Guided Radiosurgery Using Novalis Tx Technology. Journal of Robotics & Machine Learning; 6/8/2009 ...Mahadevan, MD, radiation oncologist at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital here, prescribed a type of non-invasive...1,330 occurring in Maine. About Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, a not for profit, acute care hospital... ...more

Hospital expansion backed in Dover.(REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION)(Brief article) New Hampshire Business Review; 6/5/2009 A $70 million Wentworth-Douglass Hospital expansion project has gained quick support from the Dover Planning Board, which unanimously approved the project just shy of a... ...more