| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord traces its origins to two unique group medical practices. The first group, the Hitchcock Clinic, was founded in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1927. Under the leadership of Dr. John P. Bower, five members of the Dartmouth Medical School—each of whom also conducted an individual medical practice—joined together to form one of the first organized multi-specialty group practices in the United States. They wanted to provide their patients with complete medical and surgical care from one physician group, and they wanted to attract and support specialists who would otherwise have been unable to practice and teach in a rural area. Thus began an institution whose purposes were: "To maintain and operate a clinic for the treatment of human ailments and injuries; to study human ailments and injuries and the causes, prevention, relief, and cure thereof; and to promote medical, surgical and scientific learning and research." The second group began as the Concord Clinic. The Clinic was established in 1958 by six Concord physicians: Warren Eberhart, Maurice Green, Homer Lawrence, William Penhale, Munro Proctor, and Thomas Ritzman. Originally housed on South State Street, the group spent several years at 19 Pillsbury Street before moving in 1973 to a new office building on Pleasant Street, just west of the present site. The Concord Clinic prospered as a community-based multi-specialty group practice dedicated "to the provision of expert and compassionate medical care." In 1985, recognizing a common commitment to the pursuit of excellence in patient care, medical education, and research, the two clinics merged. Today, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is one of the nation’s largest non-profit multi-specialty group practices, offering comprehensive health care services through five major divisions in Lebanon, Concord, Manchester, Nashua, and Keene, New Hampshire.
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