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Related Company:  Donations encouraged staff to take a little time for themselves. Vermont Business Magazine The Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) Foundation recently approached several local businesses for help with an important project. Healthcare workers, working long hours caring for COVID-19 patients and others, needed a reminder to take a few moments to care for their own health and wellbeing. Businesses answered with donations of items that helped our staff remember to take care o...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC)  Medical Matters Weekly with Dr Trey Dobson, a weekly interactive, multi-platform medical-themed talk show, will feature David Veltre, MD, as a guest on its April 7 show. Dr Veltre is a hand and upper extremity specialist at SVMC Orthopedics and Northern Berkshire Orthopedics. They will discuss the most common conditions he sees in his practice and their treatments.   The show is produced with cooperation...

Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC)  Medical Matters Weekly with Dr Trey Dobson, a weekly interactive, multiplatform medical-themed talk show, will feature Mark Levine, MD, as a guest on its April 14 show. Dr Levine is Vermont’s Commissioner of Health. They will discuss Dr Levine’s personal perspective of his work over the last year. The show is produced with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV) and airs live at 2 pm on Wednesdays. Viewers...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC)  Medical Matters Weekly with Dr Trey Dobson, a weekly interactive, multiplatform medical-themed talk show, will feature Mark Levine, MD, as a guest on its April 14 show. Dr Levine is Vermont’s Commissioner of Health. They will discuss Dr Levine’s personal perspective of his work over the last year. The show is produced with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV) and airs live at 2 pm on ...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC) Medical Matters Weekly with Dr. Trey Dobson, a weekly interactive, multiplatform medical-themed talk show, will feature Family Medicine Physician Jennifer Baker-Porazinski, MD, of Twin Rivers Medical, P.C. in Hoosick Falls, NY, as a guest on its March 17 show. The two will discuss Dr. Baker-Porazinski’s personal experience with COVID-19 and her interest in integrative medicine. The show is produced with c...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine A new program at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) provides caesarean section patients the opportunity to return home more quickly than in the past. The program is a part of a general shift toward offering more patient education and preparation before surgical procedures and a more individualized approach to post-operative care, both of which shorten hospital stays. “We are learning that, with a lot of preparation and support, patients can...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine The Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) Foundation has appointed several local community members to lead its Annual Fund as co-vice chairs. They include Nancy Kimball of Manchester Center; Keith Michl, MD, of Dorset; Leslie Morgenthal of Pownal; and Marv Neuman of West Dover. Michael McKenna of Bennington was chosen to chair the fund last November. “Each of these dedicated and involved community members are committed to making the connection be...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC) Medical Matters Weekly with Dr. Trey Dobson, a weekly interactive, multiplatform medical-themed talk show, will feature Specialist in Infectious Disease and International Health and Chief Quality Officer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Michael Calderwood, MD, as a guest on its Wednesday, March 10 show. They will discuss what the past year has taught them about pandemics and when they predict this pandemic wi...

Related Company:  Participants can enter to receive one of ten $50 gift cards. Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) in Bennington is initiating a comprehensive health assessment of the communities that it serves. Conducted every 3 years, the Community Health Needs Assessment process allows SVMC to understand the current health needs of its region, assess the services available to residents, and identify where and how improvements can be made. “The past year ha...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine On February 1, two community members set out to raise $500,000 in support for Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s (SVHC) project to reimagine the former Southern Vermont College campus by February 28. They called it The Grateful Bennington Fund.  “We started The Grateful Bennington Fund as a show of support and appreciation for SVHC’s good works in our community,” stated David Newell, whose idea sparked the concept. “We are in the final wee...