Critical Access hospitals in New Hampshire

Critical Access hospitals › New Hampshire

New Hampshire has 13 Critical Access hospitals. 13 of them have an emergency department. Across those that report it, the median emergency department visit lasts 2 hr 10 min.

A Critical Access Hospital is a Medicare designation for a small rural hospital. To qualify, a hospital keeps no more than 25 inpatient beds, sits a set distance from the next nearest hospital, keeps an average inpatient stay of 96 hours or less, and provides emergency care 24 hours a day. The designation exists to keep emergency care within reach in places too small to support a full general hospital, and it changes how Medicare pays them.

Hospital	City	ER wait	CMS rating
Androscoggin Valley Hospital	Berlin	1 hr 52 min	2/5
Valley Regional Hospital	Claremont	2 hr 43 min	3/5
Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital	Colebrook	1 hr 25 min	—
Franklin Regional Hospital	Franklin	2 hr 10 min	—
Weeks Medical Center	Lancaster	1 hr 47 min	—
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital	Lebanon	1 hr 58 min	4/5
Littleton Regional Hospital	Littleton	2 hr 17 min	1/5
New London Hospital	New London	2 hr 40 min	3/5
Memorial Hospital, the	North Conway	2 hr 1 min	4/5
Monadnock Community Hospital	Peterborough	2 hr 16 min	2/5
Speare Memorial Hospital	Plymouth	2 hr 16 min	3/5
Huggins Hospital	Wolfeboro	2 hr 49 min	4/5
Cottage Hospital	Woodsville	2 hr	4/5

Designation from the CMS Hospital General Information dataset. Data published July 2026. See all hospitals in New Hampshire, or Critical Access hospitals in other states. How this data works.