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Meeting Central Vermont’s Health Care FutureChanges already in place:
- CVMC organized community physician practices providing additional access to primary care;
- membership in the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Alliance;
- a health education and resource center;
- a renal dialysis initiative in partnership with Fletcher Allen Health Care;
- midwifery practice;
- the CON for the current Modernization Project.
The Project fulfills a critical need at this time in three areas. CVMC is dealing with aging facilities and infrastructure, most of which are 36 years old – heating, ventilation, air conditioning, electrical, medical gases, plumbing.
Key changes in hospital use have evolved since 1968’s inpatient model to today’s emerging outpatient model. CVMC’s focus is to maintain and improve inpatient care while transforming to a “Same Day” services model.
The new infrastructure will address:
- outpatient needs including the need for expanded postop/recovery unit space.
- increased pressures on surgical space. More than fifty percent of today’s procedures were not even offered in 1968. Modern procedures feature more and larger surgical equipment.
- focuses a spotlight on changes in birthing standards including a migration to more family-centered birthing environments and practices --- labor tubs, midwifery, Doulas --- and a move to the LDPR (Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Post-Partum) model.
- new needs in pediatric care, increased family space and accommodation of acute child care separate from the medical/surgical unit.
- expanded lab services and chronic disease management and treatment.
To learn more about the status of CVMC's Modernization Project, check out the latest construction updates. To view, click on the document icon on the right of the page.
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