By Greg Gadowski It’s been an exciting time at BMH since the Green Mountain Care Board approved the establishment of a state of the art wound care center at our hospital. We’ve been doing intensive staff training and working hard to have everything in place when the facility opens its doors next month. The BMH [...]
Brattleboro Cardiology Opens New Center in Richards Building
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital announced the Brattleboro Cardiology practice will move into a newly designed Cardiology Center located on the second floor of the Richards Building opening Monday, April 15. The move merges the offices of cardiologists Michael Cohan, D.O., and Mark Burke, M.D., into a single space. The Center will also serve as an outreach [...]
Two BMH Techs Receive Clinical Breast Exam Certification
Diagnostic Imaging Technologists Susan Gautot RT(R,M) and Ellen Wapner RT (R,M,CT,QC) of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital successfully completed requirements to become Certified MammaCare Specialists. MammaCare is the recognized standard for teaching and performing clinical breast examination in breast cancer screening clinics. The certification authorizes Gautot and Wapner to teach MammaCare practices to women and other health [...]
Dr. Kathleen McGraw is honored by Franklin District Medical Society as 2013 Community Clinician of the Year
News from the Massachusetts Medical Society Montague resident Kathleen M. McGraw, M.D. has been honored by her physician peers of the Franklin District Medical Society as the district society’s 2013 Community Clinician of the Year, an honor recognizing her professionalism and contributions as a physician. The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in [...]
Some Wounds Won’t Heal
By Lynne Vantassel Chronic wounds currently affect more than eight million people in the United States. Fueled by an aging population, the incidence of such wounds is on the rise as more patients are diagnosed with chronic medical conditions. A chronic or non-healing wound is a wound that hasn’t healed within 30 days using conventional [...]
BMH Center for Wound Healing Opening in May
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital announced the establishment of Vermont’s only comprehensive Center for Wound Healing. Located on the BMH campus, the Center provides the most advanced therapies available for the treatment of chronic and non-healing wounds. When the Center opens its doors and begins seeing patients on May 9, it will be the first facility of [...]
George Terwilliger Joins BMH as ED Site Director
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital today announced that George Pierce Terwilliger, MD, has been appointed Site Director for its Emergency Department. Dr. Terwilliger has been practicing emergency medicine at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, New Hampshire since 2002. He comes to BMH through a unique professional services contract with Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic, by which Harneet Sethi, MD, [...]
AARP Safe Driving Class for Senior Citizens, April 20
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and AARP are co-sponsoring a Driver Safety program on Saturday, April 20 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Brew Barry Conference Room. This driver’s refresher course is for people ages 55 and over and is designed to provide awareness of aging as it affects driving. The class covers normal physical [...]
Transformed Into A Mother
There’s lots of info out there about taking good care of yourself and your unborn baby during pregnancy. Most of that info focuses on physical things. But one of the secrets of pregnancy is: YOU ARE BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A MOTHER. People don’t like to talk about that. Don’t get so focused on labor and [...]
Striving for Perfection Part of the New Health Care Model
by Kathleen McGraw, MD One of the exciting things about the role of Chief Medical Officer at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital right now is the change in health care that is currently underway in the state. Vermont is leading the nation in health care reform. The process of implementation, which is going to take many years, [...]
