We are thrilled to team up with the exceptional providers and staff at River Road Pediatrics. Our shared values and commitment to providing patient and family-centered care provide a wonderful foundation for combining our practices.
Erik M. Shessler, MD, Associate Medical Director of Dartmouth Health Children’sEffective March 18, 2024, River Road Pediatrics will join the Dartmouth Health Children’s system of pediatric care. River Road Pediatrics, in Bedford, NH, has cared for babies, children and adolescents in the Bedford area for more than 30 years. This addition to the Dartmouth Health Children’s family allows the ability to provide local, comprehensive care to more children and families in the region.
“We are thrilled to team up with the exceptional providers and staff at River Road Pediatrics,” said Erik M. Shessler, MD, Associate Medical Director of Dartmouth Health Children’s. “Our shared values and commitment to providing patient and family-centered care provide a wonderful foundation for combining our practices.”
Contact us
Call our River Road office at 603-695-2817.
As a member of Dartmouth Health Children’s, River Road Pediatrics families will gain access to enhanced resources through New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the largest breadth of pediatric specialists in the Granite State.
“While our name has changed, we want to assure our valued patients that our unwavering commitment to delivering compassionate, family-centered care will continue unchanged,” said Martin E. Schwartzberg, MD, FAAP, pediatrician at River Road Pediatrics. “Joining forces with Dartmouth Health Children’s enables us to collaborate with an exceptional team of physicians and advanced practice providers, offering a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services to children and families across the region.”
The practice location will remain at 58 Hawthorne Drive in Bedford. To learn more about Dartmouth Health Children’s, visit childrens.dartmouth-health.org.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire's only academic health system and the state's largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 56 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, the state’s only children’s hospital, and multiple clinic locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene and New London, NH, and Bennington and Windsor, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
About Dartmouth Health Children's
Dartmouth Health Children's is the only comprehensive pediatric healthcare system in the region. Fully integrated in Dartmouth Health and anchored for more than 30 years by Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD)—in Lebanon, NH—Dartmouth Health Children's promotes health, advances knowledge, and delivers the best patient and family-centered care for infants, children, and adolescents across New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth Health Children's conducts groundbreaking research and educates the next generations of health professionals as the primary pediatric partner of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Highly skilled and collaborative child health professionals provide care in multiple settings across the region. Outpatient specialty visits and same-day surgery services are available at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (CHaD) and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Manchester. Primary care appointments in general pediatrics are available at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Bedford, Concord, Lebanon, Manchester and Nashua, NH and Bennington, VT; as well as at Dartmouth Health members: Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, Cheshire Medical Center, New London Hospital and Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center.