Recent News
- Fletcher Allen Partners Improves Quality of Care Systems; Realizes More Than $1 Million in Savings in First Year
In the first year since its formation, Fletcher Allen Partners - the parent corporation of Fletcher Allen Health Care and Central Vermont Medical Center - has implemented improved quality of care systems and practices and achieved significant cost reductions as the organizations work to fully integrate clinical and administrative operations.
- Fletcher Allen named in top 20 UHC quality ranking for 2012
For the second consecutive year, Fletcher Allen Health Care has been ranked in the top 20 among 138 academic medical centers in the nation for quality of care and patient safety by the University HealthSystems Consortium (UHC), an alliance of the leading non-profit academic medical centers in the country.
- Fletcher Allen Names President
John Brumsted, M.D. was named president and chief executive officer of Fletcher Allen Health Care and its integrated system with Central Vermont Medical Center, known as Fletcher Allen Partners in February 2012. Brumsted led the hospital as Interim CEO upon the departure of Melinda Estes in August 2011.
- Hospitals pursuing affiliation with Fletcher Allen partners
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center in Plattsburgh, and Elizabethtown Community Hospital have agreed in principle to become part of a four-hospital, cross-lake affiliation under Fletcher Allen Partners.
Fletcher Allen Partners is the parent organization of Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, and Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. The purpose of the proposed affiliation is to establish a coordinated, highly integrated health care system that will improve quality, increase access and lower costs of health care in the communities served by the four hospitals in Vermont and upstate New York.
The hospitals hope the proposed affiliation can become effective late in 2012.
- Clinical Simulation Laboratory Opens
Fletcher Allen and the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine and College of Nursing and Health Sciences celebrated the completion of the Clinical Simulation Laboratory at the facility’s UVM campus hub. The 9,000-square-foot facility allows trainees to practice on “patients” whose complex circuitry causes them to react as if they were human – but in a safe learning environment without the risk involved in learning on actual patients. Funding for the project came from a gift of the late Thomas Sullivan, MD, who worked and taught at Fletcher Allen and UVM, and a $1.75 million grant secured by U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy.
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