Catamount Rotary Donates 1,280 Books to SVMC

BENNINGTON, Vt. — Representatives of the Catamount Rotary donated 1,280 gently used books and about two dozen new books to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Pediatrics on Tuesday. 

The books will be distributed during patients’ regular well-child visits to encourage literacy and a love of reading. 

Betsy Browning and Amy Carey of the Catamount Rotary presented the books. Accepting the donations were nurses Christina Grupe, Jessica Deysenroth and Michelle Arbogast as well as doctors Martin Luloff, Meghan Gunn and Lynn Mann.

SVMC Pediatrics is a department of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), a full-service community hospital in Bennington. SVMC’s physicians are members of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians, a multispecialty medical group operated in partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock. 

SVMC is part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), an integrated health system serving Bennington and Windham Counties in Vermont, eastern Rensselaer and Washington counties in New York, and northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. In addition to the medical center, SVHC consists of the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center and the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation in Bennington; SVMC Northshire Campus in Manchester, SVMC Deerfield Valley Campus in Wilmington, SVMC Mountain Medical at the base of Mount Snow in West Dover, and the SVHC Foundation. To learn more, visit svhealthcare.org.

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