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Medical Matters Weekly Welcomes Pioneer in Art's Role in Healing| 12:39PM / Thursday, June 30, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Shaun McNiff, PhD—artist, art therapist, professor, and author—is the next guest on Medical Matters Weekly. Viewers are invited to tune in at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6. The show will address the power of art as a component of health and wellbeing in addition to the mental and physical healing processes. The show is produced by Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV). Viewers can view on facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington. The show is also available to view or download as a podcast on svhealthcare.org/medicalmatters. Shaun McNiff is author of 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Regional High School Honor Roll | 04:00PM / Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | |
 Mount Greylock Regional High School Fourth Quarter Honor Roll Grade 12 Zoe Armet, Jordyn Beaulieu, Adriel Benko, William Broadwell, Jillian Bump, Cayden Conry, Christian Doucette, Maisie Dufour, Ryan Goss, Jonah Hane, Luca Hirsch, Rosario Larios-Sontay, Felicia LaRoche, Catherine McAllister, Eleanor McPartland, Teague Murphy, Derek Paris, Tej Patel, Jamie Rhinemiller, Lily Rorke, Emma Sandstrom, Piper Schulman, Alayna Schwarzer, Mackenzie Sheehy, Christian Sullivan, Katherine Swann, Camden Taylor, Alexis Toomey, Rona Wang, Anthony Welch, Malina Woodbury Grade 11 Arsil Ahmad, Bryn Angelini, Annabelle Art, Matilda Asch, Seamus Barnes, Matthew Bertolino, Henrik Bingemann, Marguerite 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Finds Diversity Training Program for Town PersonnelBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:13PM / Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday expressed its commitment to provide ongoing diversity, equity and inclusion training for town employees. And the board members promised in a formal statement to participate in that training themselves. Andy Hogeland and Jeff Johnson took the lead on finding a firm to train town personnel in how to treat one another and members of the public in a way that upholds DEI values — as mandated by a pair of articles overwhelmingly passed by town meeting in 2020. "We discovered three or four months ago there was a gap in our DEI training," Hogeland said Monday. "In the course of the last three months, we 0 Comments
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SVMC Named as Efficiency Vermont 'Energy Leader'| 12:09PM / Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), has been named as an "Energy Leader" by Efficiency Vermont. The organization honored seven large commercial and industrial customers with the award at the end of last year. "SVMC's investment in energy efficiency and commitment to lowering energy use, operational costs, and greenhouse gas emissions is a testament their forward thinking and leadership," said Dave Adams, senior customer engagement manager at Efficiency Vermont. "We're grateful for the opportunity to support them with technical advice and 0 Comments
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Update: Williams Alum Named Head Coach of NBA's Jazz| 10:37AM / Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | |
 A month after helping lead the Boston Celtics to their first Eastern Conference Championship in a dozen years, Williams College alumnus Will Hardy is heading west. On Tuesday, the Utah Jazz named Hardy its new head coach. At age 34, he becomes the youngest active head coach in the National Basketball Association. "The Utah Jazz are one of the most respected and successful franchises in the NBA and the fan base here is legendary,” Hardy said in a news release. “This opportunity comes with tremendous responsibility. I’m grateful for the trust the Jazz have placed in me and I look forward to the work ahead.” He spent last year as the top 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock District Takes First-Year 'Hit' in New Bus ContractBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:38AM / Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Monday OK'd a three-year contract with Dufour Tours to continue to provide transportation services for the three-school district. On a vote of 5-0 with Christina Conry and Jose Constantine unable to make the start of the special afternoon session, the committee ratified a deal with an 8 percent increase for fiscal 2023 over the rate paid in the 12-month period that ends on Thursday. "But it does stay flat in years two and three," Business Administrator Joe Bergeron told the committee. "We take our lump in year one. But most of the contracts we're seeing have things like 5-5-5 0 Comments
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SVMC Celebrates Accredited Nursing Residency Graduates| 07:54AM / Tuesday, June 28, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), graduated eight nurses from its Transition-to-Practice Nurse Residency Program. The program is the first program in the state and one of only 208 in the United States to have received accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Practice Transition Accreditation Program for nurses working in the medical-surgical, women's and children's, and emergency departments. Accreditation for the intensive care unit is expected to be obtained later this year. Current students in the program joined the graduates in celebrating their 0 Comments
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Clark Art Features 'Rodin in the United States'By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
06:02AM / Sunday, June 26, 2022 | |
'Monument to Balzac' is on display off the museum's lobby. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — One of the largest exhibits of the works of Auguste Rodin seen in the United States in the past 40 years is now on view at the Clark Art Institute. The exhibit consists of 50 sculptures and 25 drawings from American museums and private collections that collectively demonstrate the story of the collectors, agents, art historians, and critics who worked to make Rodin known in America. Although there have been many exhibits on Rodin, less attention has been directed to toward the French modernist's legacy in the United States. The Clark exhibit 0 Comments
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SVHC COVID Resource Center Will Discontinue Testing| 04:10PM / Friday, June 24, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to decrease and the supply of rapid antigen tests has stabilized, the need for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing has declined dramatically. Federal funding for centralized testing has ceased. In addition, most workplaces and travel destinations no longer require PCR testing. As a result, SVHC will discontinue offering PCR tests at the CRC at noon on Friday, July 1. Employees of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) collected more than 110,000 COVID specimens at the COVID Resource Center (CRC) since January 2021. "Our work to provide testing to the community was one of the greatest 0 Comments
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Medical Matters Weekly Welcomes Cleveland Clinic's Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus| 02:54PM / Friday, June 24, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Michael Roizen, MD, chief wellness officer emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic and leading health and wellness communicator, is the next guest on Medical Matters Weekly. Viewers are invited to tune in at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 29. The show will address the power of everyday choices in preventing disease and prolonging productive and enjoyable lives. The show is produced by Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV). Viewers can see the show on facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington. The show is also available to view or download as a podcast on 0 Comments
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SVHC Honors the SVMC ICU Team with DAISY Team Award| 01:32PM / Friday, June 24, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), was the recipient of the DAISY Team Award for Extraordinary Nurses in May. The department was nominated in a heartfelt message from a patient recovering from an overdose. The nominator wrote, "I would just like to sincerely thank all the staff on the floor for taking the best possible care of me. Each nurse and LNA showed me so much empathy and gratitude, love, and respect. Each nurse had so much to bring to the table and, in combination, gave me the best care I've ever had. [It was] a judgement-free zone, 0 Comments
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