Services and Highlights
The Vermont Children's Hospital (VCH) at Fletcher Allen is a hospital-within-a-hospital. VCH offers comprehensive, family-centered primary care, specialty care, and neonatal and pediatric intensive care for children across our region. The 20-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is the only facility of its type in Vermont and cares for critically ill or premature infants in its 20-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The General Clinical Research Center at Fletcher Allen/University of Vermont is one of 78 in the country and the only one in northern New England. Resident researchers are pioneering treatments for heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
The medical center has comprehensive surgical services (neurological, cardiac, pediatric) and imaging equipment. It offers leading-edge radiology technology including a Philips high-field Open MRI, a Philips 3T MRI, a General Electric Signa LX 1.5 tesla system, and a Philips Brilliance 256-slice CT scanner that can produce highly detailed 3D images of the heart, the brain, and tiny blood vessels.
As the only Level I Trauma Center Vermont, the hospital offers the region advanced technology and techniques to care for the most seriously ill and injured pediatric and adult patients. The hospital was the first organization in the United States to be verified as a Level I Trauma Center for both children and adults.
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