Vermont Enterprise Journal Ivette Guttmann, MD, a sports activities medication doctor with SVMC Orthopedics, a part of Southwestern Vermont Medical Middle (SVMC) and Southwestern Vermont Well being Care (SVHC) in Bennington, has one thing in frequent with the very best athletes on the planet; she has a dream to make it to the Olympic Video games. Her hope is to serve the athletes as a volunteer doctor.
“I’m an athlete at coronary heart, and the Olympics is one thing I’ve all the time aspired to,” Guttmann mentioned. “Whereas I didn’t make it to the Olympics as an athlete, I hope to have the ability to use my abilities as a doctor to serve Crew U.S.A.”
As a primary step, Dr. Guttmann will function a lead doctor on the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World College Video games January 11 – 22. The 11-day winter multisport and academic pageant will carry greater than 2,500 athletes and delegates from 600 universities and 50-plus nations to compete in 12 sports activities and 86 medal occasions.
From Lake Placid, she’s going to go on to the U.S. Olympic Coaching Middle in Colorado Springs January 22 – February 4. After this month-long coaching with elite athletes in Lake Placid and Colorado, she could also be chosen to function a workforce doctor throughout an upcoming Olympic Video games.
“I count on that volunteering with the elite athletes on the World College Video games and on the U.S. Olympic Coaching Middle this winter will present useful insights,” Guttmann mentioned. “Serving the Olympians could be an amazing honor, an incredible problem, and an invigorating expertise I can carry again to my sufferers and group.”
For extra about Dr. Guttmann’s journey to the Olympics, observe Southwestern Vermont Well being Care at fb.com/svmedicalcenter and Instagram.com/svmedicalcenter.
About SVHC:
Southwestern Vermont Well being Care (SVHC) is a complete, preeminent, healthcare system offering distinctive, handy, and inexpensive care to the communities of Bennington and Windham Counties of Vermont, jap Rensselaer and Washington Counties of New York, and northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. SVHC contains Southwestern Vermont Medical Middle (SVMC), Southwestern Vermont Regional Most cancers Middle, the Facilities for Dwelling and Rehabilitation, and the SVHC Basis. SVMC contains 25 major and specialty care practices.
Southwestern Vermont Well being Care is among the many most lauded small rural well being methods within the nation. It’s the recipient of the American Hospital Affiliation’s 2020 Rural Hospital Management Award. As well as, SVMC ranked fourth nationwide for the worth of care it gives by the Lown Institute Hospital Index in 2020 and is a five-time recipient of the American Nurses Credentialing Middle’s Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence. The well being system is lucky to have the help of platinum-level company sponsor Mack, a number one provider of contract manufacturing providers and injection molded plastic elements primarily based in Arlington, VT.
Southwestern Vermont Medical Middle gives distinctive care with out discriminating on the idea of a person’s age, race, ethnicity, faith, tradition, language, bodily or psychological incapacity, socioeconomic standing, intercourse, sexual orientation, or gender identification or expression. Language help providers, freed from cost, can be found at 1-800-367-9559.
About Lake Placid 2023 FISU World College Video games:
The FISU World College Video games Winter is the biggest winter multi-sport collegiate athletic occasion on the planet. College college students between the ages of 17 and 25 are eligible to enter. In 2018, Lake Placid was chosen to host the 2023 FISU World College Video games. New York State is proud to be internet hosting these video games and appears ahead to showcasing New York and the North Nation to a world viewers.
BENNINGTON, VT—November 23, 2022—SVMC
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