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NEW CLINIC We held our first Community Forum last Wednesday evening to inform the public about our proposed new clinic project, and an informative dialogue was held at the Townshend Town Hall, where attendees were presented with a virtual walk-through of the proposed new clinic.  Our next Community Forum, also open to all members of […]

Grace Cottage has been chosen as an IMPACT Award Finalist for Vermont by the Ruderman Family Foundation and the Red Sox Foundation. Please vote daily to help Grace Cottage win the top prize!

Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital is one of Vermont’s “Best Places to Work”!

Best Places To Work In Vermont As announced in last month’s issue, Grace Cottage was the only hospital to have been named a “Best Place to Work in Vermont” by VermontBiz in 2023. On Wednesday, March 29, I traveled to Burlington to accept the award, along with our Senior Human Resources Director, Jennifer Newman (center) […]

Emergency Department Update If you’ve had a chance to see it, I hope you’re as pleased as I am with the way the newly-expanded Emergency Department looks from the outside. I think it completes the original hospital building in a very graceful and substantial way. As you can see from this photo, construction is going […]

Construction on the Grace Cottage Emergency Department expansion began during the first week of January and the mild winter weather so far (with the notable exception of February 3-4, when wind chills dipped to minus 45 here in Townshend!) has been beneficial. The walls are up, the roof is on, and the photos below show the progress that’s been made in just 6 weeks!

With a new year comes a new start and, here at Grace Cottage, we are very excited about the upcoming year. We have an intense focus on our mission to keep our patients as healthy as possible and, with the worst of the pandemic behind us, we’re looking forward to continuing to move Grace Cottage into the future. We made significant capital improvements during the pandemic, including the addition of TeleEmergency and TeleNeurology services; a portable ultrasound and high-flow nasal cannula for the ED; the installation of new generators; improvements to various buildings on campus, including new heat pump systems, new boilers, and new windows; and many other smaller but significant projects.