Our Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19
We are are taking the COVID-19 outbreak very seriously and we want you to as well.
Below you will find our office plan and sources of reliable information.
Below you will find our office plan and sources of reliable information.
COVID-19 is spreading. We have cases in our community
Please educate yourself and prepare.
Please educate yourself and prepare.
What is COVID-19? How does COVID-19 spread? How can I Prepare?
In addition to these general recommendations, we ask that you have a working thermometer, access to a cell phone, and if possible, the ability to video chat from a phone or computer.
Please see the links listed below for more information.
In addition to these general recommendations, we ask that you have a working thermometer, access to a cell phone, and if possible, the ability to video chat from a phone or computer.
Please see the links listed below for more information.
People over 50 and people with serious medical problems
are at increased risk of life-threatening illness and
need to limit their risk of exposure.
Infected children are likely to show no signs of illness or seem to only have a common cold, but they may still be contagious.
Please support your family and neighbors. Please protect our elders.
Please follow the basics of social distancing!
are at increased risk of life-threatening illness and
need to limit their risk of exposure.
Infected children are likely to show no signs of illness or seem to only have a common cold, but they may still be contagious.
Please support your family and neighbors. Please protect our elders.
Please follow the basics of social distancing!
Our Office Plan:
We now have several cases of COVID-19 in our community and it is expected to spread quickly. In response, we have turned off patient self-scheduling and closed walk in time.
If you need to make an urgent appointment (meaning that you think you may need to be seen today,) then call your doctor's cell phone:
Dr Hearst 802-379-4352 or Dr Wood 802-379-5126.
If your need for an appointment is not urgent, please call Lynn Jones RN, our nurse case manager at the office: 888-421-6801 ext 4.
We will be doing most visits by video chat or phone call. You will received a call 1-2 days before all appointments from Lynn. Depending on your needs and your risk, we will decide to see you face to face at the office, to do our visit over video or phone, to reschedule your visit, or some combination of these.
When you arrive at the office, please remain in your car and call your doctor's cell phone. We will greet you at the door, have you hand sanitize, put on a mask and hand sanitize again before entering. While you are in the office, please avoid unnecessarily touching surfaces. We will be disinfecting surfaces between appointments.
How to do a video visit:
Video Chat Instructions and System Requirements
We have created these plans to specifically address how our office usually runs, and the physical nature of our building. We appreciate that these plans are not perfect, and that we will need to update them as our understanding progresses. Your feedback is welcome, but we will insist on your cooperation.
We now have several cases of COVID-19 in our community and it is expected to spread quickly. In response, we have turned off patient self-scheduling and closed walk in time.
If you need to make an urgent appointment (meaning that you think you may need to be seen today,) then call your doctor's cell phone:
Dr Hearst 802-379-4352 or Dr Wood 802-379-5126.
If your need for an appointment is not urgent, please call Lynn Jones RN, our nurse case manager at the office: 888-421-6801 ext 4.
We will be doing most visits by video chat or phone call. You will received a call 1-2 days before all appointments from Lynn. Depending on your needs and your risk, we will decide to see you face to face at the office, to do our visit over video or phone, to reschedule your visit, or some combination of these.
When you arrive at the office, please remain in your car and call your doctor's cell phone. We will greet you at the door, have you hand sanitize, put on a mask and hand sanitize again before entering. While you are in the office, please avoid unnecessarily touching surfaces. We will be disinfecting surfaces between appointments.
How to do a video visit:
Video Chat Instructions and System Requirements
We have created these plans to specifically address how our office usually runs, and the physical nature of our building. We appreciate that these plans are not perfect, and that we will need to update them as our understanding progresses. Your feedback is welcome, but we will insist on your cooperation.
Links to help understand the effects of Social Distancing:
It worked in 1918, it can work now: click here
A simulation of how social distancing works: click here
Benefits of early government imposition of social distancing in other countries: click here
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders By Us Time Click here
Local Resources:
Feeding your Family During the Novel Corona Virus Outbreak
Links for local information:
To find out how COVID-19 is affecting your community and for other information:
Vermont Department of Health: 802-863-7240
New York Department of Health: 888-364-3065
Massachusetts Department of Health: 617-983-6800
New Hampshire Department of Health: 603-271-4496 (after-hours 603-271-5300)
SVMC: Bennington's hospital
Sources for general, national, and international information:
WHO - The World Health Organization is a source for current information from about the evolving outbreak of Novel Corona Virus disease around the world.
CDC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website is a source for up-to-date information about the disease in the United States.
WORLDOMETER - This website has no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation. It offers data gathered by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers. Their page titled Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths gives specific information about risk of death that is not otherwise easy to find.
It worked in 1918, it can work now: click here
A simulation of how social distancing works: click here
Benefits of early government imposition of social distancing in other countries: click here
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders By Us Time Click here
Local Resources:
Feeding your Family During the Novel Corona Virus Outbreak
Links for local information:
To find out how COVID-19 is affecting your community and for other information:
Vermont Department of Health: 802-863-7240
New York Department of Health: 888-364-3065
Massachusetts Department of Health: 617-983-6800
New Hampshire Department of Health: 603-271-4496 (after-hours 603-271-5300)
SVMC: Bennington's hospital
Sources for general, national, and international information:
WHO - The World Health Organization is a source for current information from about the evolving outbreak of Novel Corona Virus disease around the world.
CDC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website is a source for up-to-date information about the disease in the United States.
WORLDOMETER - This website has no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation. It offers data gathered by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers. Their page titled Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths gives specific information about risk of death that is not otherwise easy to find.
