Alice Peck Day Hospital

Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital is a hospital located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States. While it started in 1932 as a small cottage hospital, it has since become a larger community hospital that provides standard hospital services such as primary care, women's care, independent living, and assisted living, and more specialized services such as orthopaedics, rehabilitative care, and neurosurgery. It serves roughly 20 communities in Vermont and New Hampshire, and is affiliated with Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, which is also located in Lebanon.HistoryMrs. Alice Peck Day was a fifth generation resident of Lebanon, NH. Upon her death in 1927, she bequeathed her family home to found a cottage hospital in 1927. Dr. Arthur Burnham, one of the area's leading physicians at the time, helped lead the drive for incorporation, and APD opened its doors for the first time on February 1, 1932.Early traditions at APD included “Donation Day,” when Lebanon residents contributed food, bathrobes, towels and other needed goods, and “Baby Day,” where babies born at the hospital gathered with their families for a social get-together. The early hospital specialized in births, minor medical procedures and tonsillectomies—the only surgery then performed at APD.In 1964, APD undertook a fundraising capital campaign to build a modern hospital. APD continued to expand in the 1990s and 2000s, adding physicians' offices, the Immediate Care Center, Women's Care Center and Occupational Health Services, while expanding its surgical capacity and making strides in same day and minimally invasive surgery. In 2006, APD raised $4.3 million to fund the Robert A. Mesropian Center for Community Care, which today provides primary care, internal medicine, outpatient therapy, and geriatric care. In 2012, community support made possible a major renovation to the medical-surgical inpatient wing of APD.