North Country Health Consortium (NCHC)

Mission :
"North Country Health Consortium leads innovative collaboration to improve the health status of the region."

History and Purpose :
The North Country Health Consortium (NCHC) is a rural health network, created in 1997, as a vehicle for addressing common issues through collaboration among health and human service providers serving Northern New Hampshire. NCHC is engaged in activities for:
• solving common problems and facilitating regional solutions
• creating and facilitating services and programs to improve population health status
• health professional training, continuing education and management services to encourage sustainability of the health care infrastructure
• increasing capacity for local public health essential services
• increasing access to health care for underserved and uninsured residents of Northern New Hampshire