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Weirs Beach is only a 10 minute drive to the major regional hospital in Laconia. There are also several urgent care centers nearby.

NAME OF SERVICE
TELEPHONE
ADDRESS
Concord Hospital – Laconia603-524-321180 Highland St, Laconia
Laconia Clinic603-524-5151
800-564-5150
724 N Main St, Laconia
Convenient MD Urgent Care603-737-055077 Daniel Webster Hwy, Belmont
ClearChoiceMD Urgent Care603-267-065696 Daniel Webster Hwy, Belmont
ClearChoiceMD Urgent Care603-556-46619 Old Lake Shore Road, Gilford
Dental Expressions603-366-4400Alpenrose Plaza
36 Endicot St E
The Concord Hospital – Laconia. Prior to 2021, the hospital was known as the Lakes Region General Hospital.

HISTORY OF THE LACONIA HOSPITAL

Laconia Hospital, 1920’s

Until 1898 there was no hospital within the City of Laconia.

The first call for a Laconia hospital had come in the form of an 1891 editorial in the Laconia Democrat newspaper which stated that “We want a place where sick people can go to recover their health and be sure of getting careful nursing and good, wholesome sanitary surroundings. We want beds for those able to pay and free beds for those who cannot pay and are deserving of charity.”

In 1892, Laconia citizen Rhoda C. Ladd, in her will, pledged her entire estate, including her Court Street home, to the City for the purposes of building a hospital, but there still wasn’t enough funding to proceed.

When a railroad wreck occurred in the City on September 1, 1897, there was nowhere to bring the victims, other than a local hotel with “poorly lighted and ventilated rooms…” An editorial published in the local paper shortly after the wreck noted the “barbarous” conditions and concluded “the great necessity for a cottage hospital was never more manifest than at the present time…” With public opinion galvanized, funds were soon raised and the Laconia Cottage Hospital opened less than a year later, on July 18, 1898 at 118 Court Street. However, the Cottage Hospital had only eight beds and it soon became evident that a larger facility was needed.

In 1905, Laconia citizen Jeremiah S. Jewett sold his farm atop Jewett Hill to the City for a friendly price, and donated half of the purchase price towards construction of a new hospital. The new hospital, shown in the old postcard above, was built soon after, opening on October 18, 1908, at the top of Eliot Street.

(Information courtesy of the Laconia Historical Society)

In 1923, the original hospital was extended with a new annex of roughly the same size directly behind. A large new wing was added perpendicular to the annex in 1947. The original hospital was razed in June, 1970, to make way for today’s hospital in the same location, but both the annex and wing were kept and incorporated into the new structure. Major additions in 1985 and 2011 completed the hospital as it is today.

 

The Laconia Hospital circa 1950.

1955 aerial photo of the hospital complex