Author: Jan Ferris

DID YOU GET A SURVEY ABOUT YOUR VISIT AT EVERGREEN?

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If you or your child saw an Evergreen Family Health Practitioner between February and July this year, you may get a patient experience survey in the mail in late September or early October. Every year, the Vermont Blueprint for Health, along with a survey company called DataStat, sends out the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey (CAHPS) to some people who saw their providers in the last six months. Survey results are anonymous and confidential.  

The survey provides Evergreen Family Health with feedback on where to target improvement efforts and how to better serve our patients. Your experience is very important to us, so if you received the survey, please complete it and let us know how we are doing.   

RSV DISEASE AND VACCINE INFORMATION

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Evergreen in Williston and Alder Brook in Essex DO NOT HAVE the RSV vaccine.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an old disease, but has become a popular talking point because there is a new vaccine to prevent RSV disease. The vaccine has not yet been widely used, so its benefits and harms have not been fully realized.
For otherwise reasonably healthy people, it may be best to wait until there is more experience and and we know the risk of potential severe vaccine side effects.
If you are at very high risk (for instance severe lung disease such as COPD), you may want to consider getting the RSV vaccine, but we are not actively recommending it at this time.

Further information can be found at:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/rsv.html

HAPPY NURSES’ WEEK!

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We are grateful to have an excellent team of nurses who exhibit caring, compassion and hard work day in and day out. We appreciate you all so much! Please reach out to all the nurses in your own lives with a THANK YOU for all that nurses do for us.

Dense breast tissue on mammogram

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Breast density on mammogram is reported as one of four categories.

  • breast tissue primarily fatty
  • scattered fibroglandular tissue
  • heterogeneously dense tissue
  • extremely dense tissue

After a routine screening mammogram, about 50% of women receive results indicating they have either heterogeneously dense or extremely dense breast tissue. These women are advised to discuss with their health care provider the option of having a screening ultrasound.

We encourage you to read more about the topic of breast density by following this link:

https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/breast-changes/dense-breasts

   

The Move is Complete!

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It is with great excitement that we can announce the move to 426 Industrial Avenue in Williston is COMPLETE!

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING DETAILS CAREFULLY: 

Alder Brook Family Health in Essex Town IS NOT moving. If you have an appointment with Dr. James Dougherty, Dr. Melisa Gibson, Annegret Schmitt-Johnson, NP or Nicole Wienclaw, NP, you’ll be seen in the same location as always, 8 Essex Way, Suite 201.

Charlotte Family Health and the Essex Junction office HAVE MOVED to 426 Industrial Avenue, Suite 130, Williston, VT 05495.

Evergreen Primary Care at 28 Park Avenue HAS MOVED to 426 Industrial Avenue, Suite 130, Williston, VT 05495.

Evergreen Sports Medicine HAS MOVED to 426 Industrial Avenue, Suite 130, Williston, VT 05495.

The former Charlotte office (located in Shelburne), the Essex Junction office (Main Street in the City of Essex Jct) and the 28 Park Avenue Williston office are all permanently closed.