The mental health professionals argue Friday’s change in control from Hanover-based Dartmouth College — which controlled NH Hospital since the 1980s — to Dartmouth-Hitchcock would eliminate their automatic pay raises and change their retirement benefits and vacation.
The mental health professionals’ attorney told WMUR 9 that psychiatric care at the facility may suffer as a result of the walkout. However, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeffery Meyers said care will not change at the hospital because of the professionals’ depature, though did not add if the positions have been filled.
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