Patricia Donehower, R.N., MSN, and Virginia Hood, MB.BS, MPH, were appointed to The University of Vermont Medical Center Board of Trustees following approval by The University of Vermont Health Care Network Board of Trustees earlier this week.
Donehower is a lecturer in nursing in the UVM College of Nursing and Health Sciences and recently retired as vice president Clinical Services, from the Visiting Nurse Association for Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties (VNA). She held several administrative positions at that organization after joining it in 1999.
Prior to joining the VNA, she held various positions at The University of Vermont Medical Center from 1988 through 1999, including vice president for Nursing. She was a leader in the former Quality Department from 1988-1995 prior to assuming the VP Nursing role. The Quality department was the precursor of The Jeffords institute for Quality and Operational Effectiveness.
Dr. Hood is a Professor of Medicine at UVM and specialist in kidney disease at The University of Vermont Medical Center, with expertise in chronic kidney disease, blood pressure control, kidney stones, fluid/electrolyte balance and high-value care quality improvement activities.
Dr. Hood is a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. She served as president of the organization from 2011 to 2012.
The University of Vermont Medical Center Board has 19 members and is chaired by John Powell, co-owner Powell Design-Build, of Colchester, VT.
The University of Vermont Medical Center (formerly Fletcher Allen Health Care), is a 447 bed tertiary care regional referral center providing advanced care to approximately 1 million residents in Vermont and northern New York. Together with our partners at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, we are Vermont’s academic medical center. The University of Vermont Medical Center also serves as a community hospital for approximately 150,000 residents in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties.
The University of Vermont Medical Center is a member of The University of Vermont Health Network, a four hospital system established to deliver high quality academic medicine to every community we serve. Our partners are:
The University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center
The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
The University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital