Jessa Barnard, the executive director of Vermont Medical Society, left, and Trey Dobson, MD, Vermont Medical Society president, right, met with US Congressman for Vermont Peter Welch, Vermont delegation, and their staff about health care advocacy in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. In addition to his role at the Vermont Medical Society, Dobson is a physician in the Emergency Department and the chief medical officer at Southwestern Vermont Health Care and the medical director of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians in Bennington.
About SVHC:
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), which includes 19 primary and specialty care practices. Primary care offices are located in Bennington, Manchester, Pownal, and Wilmington. To learn more, visit svhealthcare.org.
About VMS:
The mission of VMS is to serve the public by facilitating and enhancing physicians' individual and collective commitments, capabilities, and efforts to improve the quality of life for the people of Vermont through the provision of accessible and appropriate health care services. The society encourages and aids the progress and development of the sciences of medicine and surgery, and encourages research in those areas; promotes public health; encourages cooperation among physicians in medicine and surgery; elevates the standards of professional skill, care, and judgment; promotes and follows ethical standards of conduct to benefit patients, individual physicians, other health professionals, and society as a whole; and advances the general social and intellectual welfare of its members. For more information, visit www.vtmd.org.