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Vermont Business Magazine Physician and scientist Steven D Leach, MD, has been selected as the new Director of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. The appointment was announced today by Dr Duane Compton, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and Dr James N Weinstein, CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock. As the leader of northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated comprehensive cancer centers, Leach will oversee a nationally recognized program that combines advanced cancer research at Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine with patient-centered cancer care provided across the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system.

Vermont Business MagazineSeventh Generation, a leading household, baby and personal care company and pioneer in the environmentally conscious products space, is partnering for the third consecutive year with the GOOD+ Foundation to break the cycle of family poverty through the power of donated goods and services. This year, Seventh Generation reached the milestone of more than three million diapers donated to GOOD+ Foundation to benefit families in need.

Vermont Business Magazine According to the Vermont Department of Health, tick-borne illnesses are on the rise in Vermont. In an effort to address the many tick-related questions clinicians from Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s (SVMC) have partnered with Keith Michl, MD, to offer a special presentation: What You Need to Know about Tick-Borne Illness: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. The talk is scheduled for 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 27 at the Manchester Community Library in Manchester, VT.

Vermont Business MagazineMore than 4,000 cyclists, walkers, rowers, and golfers and 1,200 volunteers gathered in Hanover today for The36th Annual Prouty,northern New England’s largest charity fundraiser. Each year on the second weekend in July people from all over the country join together for this event, fighting cancer while spending the day in an activity that promotes their own health. Despite a lunchtime storm burst, spirits remained highas participantswalked or cycled through neighborhoods and roads in New Hampshire and Vermont, rowed on the Connecticut River, or took to the links at the Hanover Country Club.

Vermont Business MagazineThe Vermont Foodbank will partner with Brattleboro Memorial Hospital to deliver healthy fruits and vegetables via the VeggieVanGo, a mobile food pantry program. The partnership will extend the resources delivered through the hospital’s Community Health Team (CHT), a department comprised of experts in nutrition, behavioral health, diabetes, and social work. The CHT provides care coordination, prevention, and management of chronic health conditions for community members.

“We are excited to partner with the Vermont Foodbank,” said Jodi Dodge, RN, Director of the BMH Community Health Team, “We are committed to helping our community members access the resources they need. In addition to handing out the fresh produce, our team will be available for support and education about healthy food.”

Vermont Business MagazineWhen Ethan Allen Residence started their fundraising campaign to install a much-needed elevator at their holistic residential care facility in Burlington's North End neighborhood, the task felt overwhelming. After many years of hard work and patience from staff, residents, and the surrounding neighborhood, the elevator installation was finished this spring.

​Vermont Business MagazineIn an effort to help one in four Vermonters who are living with hunger, MtAscutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) in Windsor willsupport a community nutrition program by providing a location where the Vermont Foodbank’s VeggieVanGomobile nutrition unit can distribute free fresh produce for those in need. The program begins July 11.

Vermont Business MagazineOn the firstWednesdayof the month, a lively group of volunteer knitters gathers at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin to knit together, share patterns and ideas, and be reminded of the reason they do what they do. CVMC chaplain Priscilla Minkin stops in to share stories of how the items they donate to the hospital and Woodridge Rehabilitation and Nursing change the lives of the people who receive them, as well as the hospital staff members who distribute them.

Vermont Business Magazine The Rutland Chamber recently held a ribbon cutting at the new, expanded location of Back On Track Physical Therapy, 365 US Route 4 East in Rutland Town.Back On Track Physical Therapy offers private treatment rooms, as well as, a welcoming gym area with state of the art equipment. Back On Track provides manual therapy, functional training for strengthening, flexibility and balance, work hardening programs, pre- and post-operative rehabilitation; as well as individualized fitness programs for post rehabilitation and more.

For more information on all they have to offer go tobackontrackpt.org

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Mary Cohen, RRCC Executive Director

Cara Woods

Liz Sargent

Terry Moran

Vermont Business MagazineDrEllamarie Russo-DeMara has moved full time to Gifford’s Twin River Health Center, where she will focus on providing comprehensive women's health services. A board certified OB/GYN since 1990, and at Gifford since 2005, she became the first menopause practitioner in Vermont in 2011. Dr. Russo-DeMara provides routine gynecological care, contraception, and menopause consultation and treatment. She will continue to offer genetic testing and counseling for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer in the Twin River office. Since 2012 she has been assisting women with a history of opiate addiction through Gifford's Medication Assistance program.

“As an office -based practitioner, I am happy to be able to spend more time with each of my patients,” she said. “As a trained Osteopathic physician, I have always approached patient care in a holistic manner. Listening to the patient and seeing the ‘whole picture’ is very important."

Vermont Business MagazineGifford Health Care is partnering with Vermont Blueprint for Health, the Vermont Department for Health, and the Greater Burlington YMCA to offer the year-long, 25-session YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program. This is the first time workshops will be offered in Rochester, Vt., and will be facilitated by Lifestyle Coach Cynthia Thurston.

Offered free of charge, this self-management program provides education and support to help adults at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes get more active, lose weight, and decrease their risk of getting diabetes. You have a greater risk of getting diabetes if you are overweight or obese; don’t get enough exercise; have high blood pressure; have abnormal cholesterol; or have a parent, brother, or sister with diabetes.

by Tim McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine BLA Partners, LLC which acquired Burlington Labs in January 2017, announced today the company will now be known asAspentiHealth. A new leadership team with depth of experience in healthcare has joinedAspentiHealth over the past months to ensure that the organization continues to maintain a high level of patient care, customer service, compliance and integrity, and continued commitment to the communitiesthey serve. Chris Powell is the new CEO for the expanding toxicology testing lab, which nearly went under last year before being rescued by the new ownership group and the state of Vermont.