News
Gifford Medical Center is pleased to provide you with its latest news. Below you will find press releases the hospital has distributed to area media about events happening at the medical center, new providers and programs, and information about some of the hospital and its health centers’ many services.
The hospital’s goal is to place press releases here on our Web site as soon as they are available. Should you not find the information you are seeking or are a reporter with a media question, the Marketing Department welcomes your inquiries at (802) 728-2284.
Please enjoy learning more about your community hospital.Healthier Living Workshops resume this August at Gifford. Read how these
workshops helped one local woman, and how they can help you.
Gifford Medical Center supplies medical personnel and supplies annually to the
Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Run and Ride to benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski
and Sports. Click on the link above for a photo gallery of Gifford nurses and
doctors at work.
Heather Burbine of South Royalton, a top student, athlete and leader, was
awarded the Gifford Medical Staff Scholarship at her high school graduation
on June 14.
Phyllis Gosling Greenway is a talented Northfield artist, whose works include
watercolors, landscapes, plein air, abstracts, drawings and more. See some of
her stunning work in the Gifford Gallery.
Urology provider Nancy Blessing, a certified physician assistant, will give a free
seminar and screenings on prostate health June 19 at 6 p.m. at the Gifford
Health Center at Berlin.
Joan Senecal, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging
and Independent Living, presented Gifford's Menig Extended Care Facility
nursing home with the Quality Award on Thursday.
Gifford's Sharon Health Center is a whole lot bigger, and has X-ray technology
and full-time physical therapy, following an expansion that wraps up at the
end of the month.
Registered nurses Pam Fournier and John Young have earned special
certification in end-of-life care.
Gifford's Menig Extended Care Facility nursing home has earned a pair of state
awards recognizing its quality as a caregiver and as an employer.
Experienced sports medicine provider and family physician Dr. Peter Loescher
has joined Gifford Medical Center’s popular Sports Medicine Clinic in Sharon.
He provides non-surgical sports medicine and orthopedic care, and the Sharon
Health Center now offers X-ray technology.
Gifford Medical Center clinical nurse educator Andra Perreault receives an
Excellence in Clinical Education award this week in Killington from the
Vermont Organization of Nurse Leaders.
Gifford Medical Center will hold a health fair on April 19 for the area’s
uninsured. Also invited are those with high insurance deductibles.
Gifford's professional chefs are once again offering Healthy Cooking Classes.
Gifford Medical Center podiatrist Dr. Robert Rinaldi of Chelsea has been
appointed by Gov. James Douglas to the Board of Medical Practice.
The Gifford Medical Center Auxiliary answers the hospital's "wish list" with
some innovative gifts.
Bethel photographer Jesse Orr is back in the Gifford Gallery with his new
"Vermont Windows Show." Join Jesse on April 6 from 3-5 p.m. for a reception.
Gifford held its 102nd Annual Corporators Meeting on March 1 at Chandler,
celebrating its 2007 successes, electing two new trustees and awarding
scholarships.
Gifford hospitalist Dr. Martin Johns and lab manager Carol Stephenson have
been published in The American Journal of Cardiology.
Pain specialist Dr. Lan Nguyen-Knoff has joined Gifford, marking the opening of
The Pain Center at Gifford and offering help for chronic pain sufferers.
Pediatric neurologist Dr. Paul Chervin has joined Dr. Robin Schwartz in Gifford
Medical Center’s neurology department. Dr. Schwartz is available to treat
adults with neurological disorders, and now Dr. Chervin brings extensive
experience in treating children.
Experienced plastic surgeon Dr. Guy Rochman, who comes with an impressive
list of credentials, began seeing patients at Gifford Medical Center in
February.
Read many more press releases about Gifford in our News Archive >>