[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7878]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      TRIBUTE TO CONCORD HOSPITAL

 Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I rise today to pay 
tribute to Concord Hospital of Concord, New Hampshire, for the honor of 
being named the 2001 Business of the Year by Business NH Magazine.
  Concord Hospital serves the citizens of the local community with a 
state of the art technology facility and staff. The hospital is the 
only one in the Granite State to provide computers at patients' 
bedsides to permit charting of medical information and data and to 
track patient charges for supplies and medical procedures.
  The Concord Hospital continues to keep abreast of the changing 
technologies within the industry by becoming the first cardiac 
catheterization laboratory in our state to use digital equipment for 
patient procedures. It also uses the only FDA approved computer-aided 
detection systems for breast cancer.
  The Hospital has paid 132 of its employees to participate in 
community committees and projects. It has also provided cash donations 
to other organizations and has created a database of health and human 
service providers and services for New Hampshire Helpline information 
service.
  The Concord Hospital is a good neighbor to the citizens of Concord 
and our state. I commend them for their dedication and service to the 
health care community in New Hampshire. It is an honor and a privilege 
to represent them in the U.S. Senate.

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