What started as a one-day event, first held on February 3, 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio has grown over the years to a month-long celebration that highlights the importance of healthy oral health habits in children. Every February, Northeast Delta Dental joins the American...

The Importance of Grandparents’ Day to Northeast Delta Dental
In 1978, then-President Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation officially recognizing what we all now know as Grandparents' Day. “I urge each citizen to pause and to reflect on the influence his [sic] grandparents have had in shaping his own destiny, and on the legacy...
Relief to Stakeholders During COVID-19
COVID-19 has had an influence on all aspects of our lives. It's been my goal and that of my colleagues to do what we can for our stakeholders. In collaboration my board of directors, senior management team and in-house counsel, we came up with a remedial plan to grant...
Pandemics of the past. Clues to the future?
The current Coronavirus pandemic is one of a series of widespread health disasters our world has experienced, so I recently began reading two historical novels about plagues: A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel DeFoe, and The Plague, by Albert Camus. Defoe was...
A message from Tom regarding COVID-19
This is a time of uncertainty. Like all businesses in Northern New England, Northeast Delta Dental is closely monitoring developments around the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Our priorities are the health, safety, and overall well-being of our employees, our...
Environmental Sustainability Increasingly Considered in the Boardroom
I recently read “Environmental Sustainability As A Board Issue”, an article by Dottie Schindlinger and Annie Kors of the Diligent Institute, published in the July/August 2019 issue of The Corporate Board. There’s a rising expectation that board members consider...
Paying attention to your oral health can save your life
We tend to move through the world in a hurried way and often overlook health concerns that can be more serious than we initially thought. April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month. Oral cancer is a disease that more than 10,000 people lose their lives to every year and...
Insurers should care about the opioid crisis
The drug crisis continues to take hold in New Hampshire, with more than 400 deaths from drug overdoses in 2017. With Congress’ recent approval of almost $23 million in funding to support efforts specifically to combat the opioid crisis in New Hampshire, I wanted to...
Oral health doesn’t have to be an uphill battle
With a summit reaching 4,393 feet, the view at the top of Mt. Mansfield reveals Vermont’s spectacular landscape; a good reason not to miss the Northeast Delta Dental Race to the Top of Vermont on Sunday, August 27, in Stowe. In addition to the beautiful view, the...
2016 Annual Report
It’s hard to believe that we are coming to a close on the second quarter of 2017! Every year, we work hard to make our Annual Report special and different from the previous year, this is an easy task because of the many exciting initiatives we undertook in 2016 and...