Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Social workers, stakeholders and leaders from across DHMC and Clinics worked together on the creation of the department to ensure it reflected the voices and experiences of the social workers caring for patients daily. Michele A. Blanchard, MSW, care management manager at DHMC, and Lucy J.R. Pilcher, MSW, LICSW, behavioral health clinician manager at DHMC, led the charge to create the department.