Maryellen Apelquist, a communications professional with 20 years of experience, recently joined the development, marketing, and public relations team at Gifford Health Care. As Gifford’s communications specialist, Apelquist will manage media relations and create content to engage and inform the greater Gifford community about patient services and providers, community health outreach, and new programs and initiatives.
“I am pleased to be a part of the Gifford team and look forward to sharing with our central Vermont neighbors all that Gifford has to offer, from high-quality, personalized health care at all stages of life to service-driven events such as our upcoming Last Mile Ride in August,” said Apelquist, referring to Gifford’s annual fundraising event to provide comfort to end-of-life patients and their families.
Before joining the Gifford team, Apelquist worked for nearly five years as the director of communications for Vermont Law School in South Royalton. She previously managed communications programs in health care, architecture and engineering, and for a wide variety of clients. She spent the first half of her career as a journalist, working her way up from reporter to managing editor in newsrooms in Connecticut, Maryland, and New Hampshire. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications, with a focus on journalism, from Hood College in Maryland.
For more information about news and events at Gifford, visit giffordhealthcare.org/category/news, email [email protected], or call 802-728-2284. On Facebook, follow @GiffordMedicalCenter.
Gifford is a community hospital in Randolph, Vt., with family health centers in Berlin, Bethel, Chelsea, Randolph, Rochester, and White River Junction; and specialty services throughout central Vermont. A Federally Qualified Health Center and a Top 100 Critical Access Hospital in the country, Gifford is a full-service hospital with a 24-hour emergency department and inpatient unit; many surgical services; a day care; two adult day programs; and the 30-bed Menig Nursing Home, which was named by US News & World Report as one of the best 39 nursing homes in the country in 2012. The Birthing Center, established in 1977, was the first in Vermont to offer an alternative to traditional hospital-based deliveries, and continues to be a leader in midwifery and family-centered care. The hospital’s mission is to improve individuals’ and community health by providing and assuring access to affordable, high-quality health care in Gifford’s service area.