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Vermont Business Magazine This month the Vermont Law School community welcomes new leadership as Thomas McHenry begins his tenure as the school’s ninth president and dean.

Vermont Business Magazine The Conrad N Hilton Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1.8 million grant toJames J Hudziak, a professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics at The University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, to determine if the UVM Wellness Environment, or WE, in concert with a health promotion and disease prevention app he developed will promote wellness among college students, in the process reducing their use of alcohol and other drugs.

Vermont Business Magazine The Bank of Bennington presented a $25,000 donation to Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) last week at the bank’s flagship location at 155 North Street in Bennington. The funds, given in celebration of the bank’s centennial year, are dedicated to the creation of several interactive, child-friendly waiting areas within the health system.

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