Our Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19
We are are taking the COVID-19 outbreak very seriously and we hope you will 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 quiet in our community but the risk for resurgence is not far away.
Please continue to protect yourself and your community:
Please continue to protect yourself and your community:
- Wear a mask when indoors, other than in your home and when outside, around people other than your household.
- Wash or sanitize your hands every time you are joining other people, and every couple hours while you are with them.
- Keep 6 feet of distance, better 10, from folks other than your household.
- Monitor yourself and your family for symptoms. If you have even mild symptoms, stay home and call us for testing.
- Each of these practices is imperfect but together they are powerful. Please practice them all and support others to do the same.
Advise from the Vermont Department of Health Information from the CDC
Community Resource List
People over 65 and people with serious medical problems
are at increased risk of life-threatening illness and
need to limit their risk of exposure more than others.
Anyone may be infected and contagious but have zero or only mild symptoms.
Please practice universal precautions.
Support your family and neighbors and protect our elders.
are at increased risk of life-threatening illness and
need to limit their risk of exposure more than others.
Anyone may be infected and contagious but have zero or only mild symptoms.
Please practice universal precautions.
Support your family and neighbors and protect our elders.
Our Office Plan:
COVID-19 is now quiet in our community and we are slowly shifting our practices.
Scheduling appointments
You can access our COVID-19 Reopening Policies here.
COVID-19 is now quiet in our community and we are slowly shifting our practices.
Scheduling appointments
- Patient self-scheduling and walk in time will remain closed for the foreseeable future.
- 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:
- 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.
- If you are going to be seen at the office, we need to screen you for your risk for COVID-19. PLEASE complete the survey that comes with your appointment reminder 24-48 hours before your appointment. You can also access it by clicking here. If you do not, then Lynn will need to call you and do it over the phone. If she can not reach you, your appointment will be cancelled.
- 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.
- We will only have one person in at a time in the office unless there is need for an essential companion or a parent.
- For your first video visit, Lynn will contact you for a system test.
- Video needs a strong cell signal or wifi so please plan ahead.
- Please take your blood pressure and weight, if possible, before your visit and complete and return any pre-visit forms that Lynn has sent you.
- Please click here for Video Chat Instructions and System Requirements
You can access our COVID-19 Reopening Policies here.
Links to help understand how to stay safe and protect your community:
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Re-entry by Atul Gawande
The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them by Erin Bromage
Saving Your Health, One Mask at at Time by Peter Tippett
It worked in 1918, it can work now: click here
How the timing of social distancing effected the rate of infection in 1918 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 Buy Us Time click here
Economists and Epidemiologists, Not at Odds but in Agreement: We need a Broad based COVID-19 Testing Survey click here
Mask Resources
Here are some easy mask ideas from the CDC
In a pinch? Here's the fastest no-sew mask!
Local Resources:
Feeding your Family During the Novel Corona Virus Outbreak
BCRC's COVID 19 Resource Page
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.
A Glossary of COVID 19 Terms
PCR versus serology explained
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Re-entry by Atul Gawande
The Risks – Know Them – Avoid Them by Erin Bromage
Saving Your Health, One Mask at at Time by Peter Tippett
It worked in 1918, it can work now: click here
How the timing of social distancing effected the rate of infection in 1918 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 Buy Us Time click here
Economists and Epidemiologists, Not at Odds but in Agreement: We need a Broad based COVID-19 Testing Survey click here
Mask Resources
Here are some easy mask ideas from the CDC
In a pinch? Here's the fastest no-sew mask!
Local Resources:
Feeding your Family During the Novel Corona Virus Outbreak
BCRC's COVID 19 Resource Page
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.
A Glossary of COVID 19 Terms
PCR versus serology explained
