Gifford Health Center at Berlin
Contact us82 East View Lane, Phone (802) 229-2325 Fax (802) 229-4572 Our providersMidwifery Orthopedics Pediatrics Podiatry
Office hoursMonday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For emergencies after |
The Gifford Health Center at Berlin offers endocrinology, orthopedics, pediatrics and podiatry in an attractive, modern first-floor office conveniently located off Airport Road in Berlin. Physical therapists, X-ray technology and MRI are also on site.
The Berlin health center is also home to Gifford's outstanding midwives! Gifford midwifery offers personalized prenatal care in addition to adolescent reproductive health services with a focus on healthy behaviors, pre-conception counseling and care, well-woman care, lacation support, postpartum care and much more from a team of certified nurse midwives. And when it comes to helping women give birth, Gifford's midwives provide 24-hour extensive, individualized labor support at Gifford's renowned Birthing Center in Randolph.
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The Gifford Health Center at Berlin: Filling a niche for specialty care
When orthopedic surgeon Dr. Stephanie Landvater and endocrinologist Dr. Susanne Trost joined Gifford in late 2006, the medical center found itself with four specialty services in the Barre/Montpelier area. Besides Drs. Landvater and Trost, experienced Gifford podiatrist Dr. Kevin McNamara and the hospital’s reputable midwives had been working at a rented Montpelier office for years.
Multiple offices meant multiple leases and support staff, a less than efficient model and an opportunity to improve. That improvement came on July 1, 2007, when the Gifford Health Center at Berlin opened in a new space off from Airport Road.
“The building allowed us to consolidate services,” says Theron Manning, strategic projects director, who calls the new health center “an excellent project” that has patients and providers pleased.
“I very much like the new space. It’s nice, functional, has a great staff and a great view. Parking is easy and check-in incredibly quick,” says Dr. Trost. 
Designed just for Gifford, the Berlin health center is a large, first-floor doctors’ office space that the hospital has leased over the long-term.
The health center also has a room designed to do some minor surgical procedures, such as a trigger finger release, and has an X-ray machine for the convenience of patients, notes Director of Provider Practices Teresa Voci.
Since many orthopedic and podiatry cases require an X-ray, “Having an X-ray machine is key,” Teresa says. MRI has also been added.
Dr. McNamara, who has increased his hours in Berlin, calls the new space “absolutely fantastic.” He’s worked for Gifford in the Barre/Montpelier area for more than 15 years and the new Berlin clinic provides room for an exciting addition – a treadmill for biomechanical gait analysis.
For the midwives, the new space provides many new opportunities, including the 
ability to see new patients in Berlin. Because the Montpelier space did not include staff and equipment to draw blood, previously patients had to drive to Randolph for their initial visit.
The midwifery team joined the Gifford Health Center at Berlin in March 2008 when their Montpelier lease expired, and since the Berlin practice has added another welcome addition – pediatrics.
Dr. William Gaidys has practiced in the Barre area since 1993 and been a pediatrician for 27 years when he joined the Berlin practice in 2009.
The addition of Dr. Gaidys has meant his Barre-area patients can continue to see him, which is significant for an area very much in need of pediatricians. Gifford’s obstetrics patients can also continue their child’s care at the health center with Dr. Gaidys.
Read one patient's story __________________________________________________________________________ Megan SpauldingThe Gifford Health Center at Berlin 'was right there in my community'“I was going to have my daughter at Gifford no matter what,” says Barre’s Megan Spaulding. Having the Gifford Health Center at Berlin available closer to home for some of her prenatal care, and then follow-up gynecological care, was an added incentive. Megan, now 26, gave birth to her daughter, Leah, in August of 2008 at the Gifford Birthing Center in Randolph. A nurse herself, she had been going to Gifford’s midwives for years. Choosing the four-woman, 24-hour midwifery team for her prenatal care and Gifford as the place where she and husband Dan would welcome their first child was a no-brainer. “I just have heard wonderful things about Gifford,” Megan says. Hers was not an easy pregnancy and birth, however. She had preeclampsia. Her blood pressure spiked, protein filled her urine and her kidneys started to shut down. She had to reduce her work hours, but made it nearly to full term. She was induced eight days early, and after two days of labor had a cesarean section. Leah then struggled to breastfeed and the family was at Gifford for a week. It was not the birth experience for which she had hoped. “It was a very hard time in my life.” And, yet, it was amazing. “What amazed me was every single nurse, everybody in housekeeping, every single person who brought in food, was so nice,” says Megan. “Everyone was just so supportive.” And, she says, “All the midwives were just wonderful. No question was stupid. That’s important; they took the time to explain things to me.” Leah went on to breast feed for more than a year and Megan received her follow-up care at the Gifford Health Center at Berlin, which she says offers a good mix of a “nicely done” clinic and somewhat private midwifery space. “You want the (Birthing Center) service. People are willing to travel that distance, but having them come to us in Berlin was just extremely easy,” says Megan. “It was right there in my community.” _________________________________________________________________________ |
