About Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Southwestern Vermont Health Care consists of:

• Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, a 99-bed community hospital.
• The Centers for Living & Rehabilitation, a 150-bed nursing facility that includes special units for short-term rehabilitation, long-term care and for residents with Alzheimer's disease.
• Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice, offers home nursing and rehabilitation and provides Bennington's only Medicare-certified hospice program.
• Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center, a full-service cancer center offering chemotherapy, the latest in radiation therapy, and access to clinical trials approved by the National Cancer Institute.
• SVMC Northshire Campus, providing primary care in the Manchester, Vt., area.
• SVMC Deerfield Valley Campus, providing primary care in the Deerfield Valley of Vermont.

Our Communities: Southwestern Vermont Health Care serves more than 55,000 people in the towns and villages of Bennington County and western Windham County and Southern Rutland County in Vermont, eastern Rensselaer County in New York and Northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts.

SVHC is a Not-For-Profit: Henry W. Putnam started SVHC in 1910 by donating his water company to the Town of Bennington, stipulating that the proceeds be used to fund a public hospital. One of Bennington's oldest charities, SVHC depends on the generosity of donors to provide an unprecedented level of care for a community hospital. SVHC is governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees drawn from the communities it serves. In 2003, SVHC and its subsidiaries provided $1.2 million in charity care.

Read our 2006 Community Benefit Report.

Our Mission: To care for and comfort our patients, residents, and their loved ones and to improve the health status of the communities we serve.

Our Vision: to make the communities we serve the healthiest in the nation and our health system the safest in the nation.

Our Values: known by the acronym QuESTS, SVHC expects its employees to model the following values:

Quality: achieving the best possible outcomes and satisfying the customer in the most cost-effective manner.
Empathy: treating others in a compassionate and sensitive manner.
Safety: preventing harm to patients from treatment that is intended to help them and to employees from an environment that is intended to support them.
Teamwork: helping each other to achieve success.
Stewardship: conserving resources and making decisions that achieve the highest value at the lowest cost.