News Post

AHSA is now pleased to be supporting the work of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System, a national leader in patient-centered health care. In addition to its inpatient facility in Lebanon, NH, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (again named to the annual list of “100 Great Hospitals in America” by Becker’s Hospital Review), the System includes Community Group Practices and clinics around New Hampshire and Vermont, the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

In making their determination to use AHSA, several factors were considered, most importantly a pillar of AHSA’s business model – vendor neutrality. What does it mean and why does it work?  At its core, being vendor neutral means that AHSA shows no favoritism to any one of its contracted agencies over another when seeking to fill open positions for our member hospitals. The reason it works is inherent to its definition: If no favoritism is shown, then all agencies contracted to AHSA have equal opportunity to win position fulfillments. This translates into an engaged pool of the best agencies, nationally, working vigorously to provide the best available medical professionals, in the best turn-around time, at the most competitive pricing, and that’s in everyone’s best interests.