Life in Keene
Keene is Cheshire County’s center for shopping, dining, culture and entertainment, business development and health and human services. A city of about 22,000, Keene offers a vibrant downtown with a wide a tree-lined Main Street, and is home to the world famous Pumpkin Festival. Keene offers access to recreation for all seasons, and a bucolic countryside with pristine lakes, winding country roads, beautiful villages, and family farms that span generations. Yet Keene is less than a two-hour car ride to Boston, Hartford and NH’s seacoast.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene and Cheshire Medical Center established a partnership in 1998 to provide the best quality care to the Keene community as two legally separate organizations. The Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene campus includes 26 primary care areas as well as specialty care areas.
Facilities include:
- The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center-Kingsbury Pavilion
- The Dorothy Penniman Hubbard Women’s Health Center
- The Farnum Rehabilitation Center
- Behavioral health units (adult and adolescent)
- A level III Trauma Center
- The Sports Medicine Center
- A modern pain clinic
- An on-campus children’s early learning day care center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene is part of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, which includes four major group practice locations in scenic central and southern New Hampshire: Keene, Concord, Manchester, and Nashua. All have a sophisticated electronic medical records system and a self-insured, well-organized risk management and liability system, making it one of the premier health systems in New England.
