Vermont Business Magazine Employees at Southwestern Vermont Health Care gathered on Friday, March 2, 2018 for a photo to celebrate National Dress in Blue Day, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance’s yearly event to raise awareness of the need for colorectal cancer screening. In 2018, more than 135,000 people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer. What's surprising is that colorectal cancer is mostly preventable when patients receive regular screenings. SVMC staff encourage everyone to ask their primary care provider which screening method is right for them or call SVMC’s nurse navigators at 802-447-5551.
SVMC’s endoscopy nurses—those who guide patients through the colonoscopy procedure, which is the most effective screening method—will visit the Bennington Farmers’ Market on Saturday, March 17. Patients can see them there and ask screening-related questions.
About SVHC:
Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) is a comprehensive, preeminent health care system providing exceptional, convenient, and affordable care to the communities of Bennington and Windham Counties of Vermont, eastern Rensselaer and Washington Counties of New York, and northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. SVHC’s providers are members of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians, a multispecialty medical group operated in partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock. SVHC includes the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, a 150-bed long- and short-term care skilled nursing facility; the SVHC Foundation; and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), which includes 19 primary and specialty care practices. Primary care offices are located in Bennington, Manchester, Pownal, and Wilmington. To learn more, visit svhealthcare.org.
Southwestern Vermont Health Care complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. Language assistance services, free of charge, are available at 1-800-367-9559.
Source: BENNINGTON, VT—March 15, 2018—SVHC