SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE HOLDS CONFERENCE ON ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITIES AND HEALTH CARE REFORM
WHO & WHAT:
Southwestern Vermont Health Care, with program support from the Vermont Health Care Innovation Project, will present a regional health care conference on building accountable communities in this era of health care reform. The media is invited to visit the conference.
The informative program features Mary D. Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN, the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. For the past two decades, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve the quality of care, decrease unnecessary hospitalizations and reduce health care costs for vulnerable community-based older adults. The program has been implemented with great success at SVMC. Plenary presentations will be made by Kevin C. Stone, BA, MBA, Project Specialist for Accountable Care Organization Development and Regional Services at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and Heidi A. Klein, MSPH, Public Health Director of Planning and Health Care Quality for the Vermont Department of Health.
Conference partners include Vermont Health Care Innovation Project and Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Supporters include the Organization of Nurse Leaders, Rutland Regional Medical Center, Southern Vermont College, and Vermont Tech
WHERE:
Grand Summit Resort Hotel and Conference Center at Mount Snow, VT
WHEN:
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday, September 20, 2016
WHY:
The purpose of the conference is to bring together clinicians, quality/safety improvement specialists, executives, community agency and services representatives, and leaders from across northern New England and beyond to share evidence on the development of accountable care communities that support population health. Complete conference information is available at svhealthcare.org/events/accountable-communities.
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.
CONTACT:
Ray Smith
Director of Marketing and Communications
Southwestern Vermont Health Care
802-447-5003
[email protected]
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