VOL. CLXXII NO. 31
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
DHMCreceivesA+financialrating United Way
fundraising period finished By KATIE RAFTER The Dartmouth Staff
Co-founder of HFA Partners, a company that advises non-profit health care providers, Pierre Bogacz said that these ratings serve as credit scores and third-party assessments of the quality of borrowers. “The rating process is really to the benefit of the bondholders that are buying the bonds issued by Dartmouth-Hitchcock,” he
Fundraising for this year’s Dartmouth United Way campaign ended on Saturday, Feb. 14 without reaching the goal of raising $320,000, Dartmouth United Way campaign co-chair Gail Gentes said. The full amount raised is still unclear, Granite United Way relationship manager Katie Kobe wrote in an email. The final amount raised will only be determined once the fiscal year ends on March 31, Kobe said. As of Jan. 23, the campaign had raised $252,000 of the $320,000 goal. Kobe noted that although the campaign ended, many match dollars may still come in the next few weeks. Last year, Dartmouth United Way raised a recordbreaking $305,956, surpassing its $300,000 goal. Gentes said the $320,000 goal this year was ambitious and she is not disappointed by the outcome of the campaign. Gentes said that she hopes the campaign reached the same amount as the campaign raised last year. Gentes said that they exceeded the goal of attracting 100 new donors by 100 additional contributors. She noted that United Way also introduced online donations this year and that the implementation of the new system ran smoothly. Dartmouth United Way began providing funding to non-profits in the Upper Valley over 40 years ago as a member of the larger statewide organization Granite United Way.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Obligated Group received a top financial rating for the second consecutive year.
B y ERIN LEE The Dartmouth Staff
For the second year in a row, Fitch Ratings, a New York-based financial ratings agency, has awarded the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Obligated Group’s revenue bonds an A+ rating. The rating, which was issued earlier this month, is based on the approximately $69 million revenue bond series 2009 and $75 million revenue
bond series 2010, according to the Fitch report. DHOG, which consists of DHMC and the DartmouthHitchcock Clinic, currently has $535.6 million of total outstanding debt, according to Fitch’s report. Dar tmouth-Hitch coc k Medical Center director of external relations Rick Adams said that DHMC is pleased with the rating.Fitch described DHOG’s outlook as “stable.”
Ambassador Brzezinski ’87 talks climate change
B y ANNIE MA and PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff
United States Ambassador to Sweden Mark Brzezinski, a member of the Class of 1987 addressed climate change, diplomacy and Arctic policy in his Monday lecture titled “#OurSharedArctic: U.S. Embassy Sweden and Modern Diplomacy.” Brzezinski is one of the 2015 winter term Montgomery Fellows and was
in residence on campus from Feb. 14 through 17, His work on campus focused on the theme “Climate Change and Society.” Brzezinski opened his lecture by discussing the extent of global warming and climate change in recent years. Thirteen of the warmest years on record have occurred since 2000, Brzezinski said. The melting of polar ice caps that reflect solar energy back into space creates dark SEE CLIMATE PAGE 3
TOUR DE DARTMOUTH
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A group of prospective students and their parents take a tour of campus.