Amy Thornton, RN, has joined Gifford’s Menig Nursing Home as director of Nursing, bringing 24 years of experience in health care positions. Most recently she was administrative director of Patient Care Services & Behavioral Health at Franklin Hospital, and director of the Senior Services & Senior Psychiatric Unit at LRG Healthcare in Laconia NH. Previously she was director of Nursing at Benchmark Assisted Living in Concord, NH, and assistant director of Nursing at Hackett Hill in Manchester, NH, and at Harborside/Sunbridge Crestwood in Milford, NH.

Dennis Foulks is the winner of the July 2016 $1,000 Make Real Change Sweepstakes. Dennis is the first winner of this 6-month sweepstakes sponsored by Westaff’s parent company, the Mount Family Group, Ltd. (based in Williston, VT). This sweepstakes is giving away $1,000 a month to the winning Westaff or Remedy associate drawn from a pool of eligible associates working for the Mount Family Group’s Westaff and Remedy offices in VT, NH, NY, MA and RI from July through December of 2016. See the website for the official rules.

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center’s (SVMC) Podiatry Residency Program is pleased to welcome Marie “McCamie” DeArmon, doctor of podiatric medicine (DPM), and Jeffrey Pantano, DPM. Dr DeArmon earned her doctor of podiatric medicine from Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine, OH, in May 2016. She received her bachelor’s in health services from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, in 2005. She has worked as a research technician with SAIC-Frederick Inc. at the National Institutes of Health, MD, and as a front office administrator for an internal medicine practice.