SVMC Conducts Training on New Cancer Treatment Technology
WHO & WHAT:
Members Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s Radiation Therapy team will be training on the new linear accelerator for cancer treatment. The media is invited to see the newly completed control room and treatment space and to take photos. The team will be using a patient simulator in their training session.
WHERE:
The SVMC Cancer Center at 140 Hospital Drive, Bennington
WHEN:
12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, 2016
WHY:
This new technology is important to the Cancer Center and local patients, because it has the power to reduce treatment times by as much as 75 percent. In addition, improved targeting features decrease side effects. Both allow patients to receive treatment with less disruption to their daily lives.
ABOUT:
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), a 99-bed community hospital. SVMC’s services include an emergency department staffed by physicians each of whom is board certified in emergency medicine; the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center, which is accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer and managed by Dartmouth-Hitchcock; and a fully-digital imaging department. SVMC also includes 19 primary and specialty care practices and primary care offices in Bennington, Manchester, Pownal, West Dover, and Wilmington, VT. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and is the state’s first Magnet Center for Nursing Excellence, a designation it has held since 2002. To learn more, visit svhealthcare.org.
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