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09/27/2025

🎓🤔”What’s the most important degree in life? High school? College? I say 98.6° — the one that makes you human.” 🌡️

Meet Dan Lee, a nurse manager at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital.

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To me, life is about being happy with who you are, enjoying your family, bringing people together and helping each other out.

I’ve been lucky enough to experience that in some pretty incredible ways – both here in the North Country and around the world.

In 2010, I traveled to Haiti as medical support for the Army Corps of Engineers just after a terrible earthquake destroyed the island. Every day, we flew to different areas to set up optical, dental and medical clinics so people could get the care they needed. I’ll never forget watching a kid get glasses for the first time – his eyes just lit up. That moment inspired me to keep going.

In 2023, I got another opportunity through the Plattsburgh Nazarene Church, which does a lot of mission work. I joined a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, where we helped rebuild a school. Some of the local kids pitched in – helping us help them. I was able to teach them about laying bricks or painting.

Seeing how many people in Africa live – in little shacks on the side of the road just trying to get by – is humbling. They didn’t complain, though. They didn’t see themselves as victims. They were simply happy to be alive and took care of each other.

That kind of positivity is why I’m bringing my 25-year-old son to Guatemala this September for a mission trip. I want him to experience that same humanity. We live a blessed life here, and I’ve come to realize that success isn’t defined by a title or a degree on the wall.

Dan Lee is nurse manager for inpatient dialysis, IV therapy, certified diabetic education and wound/ostomy at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital. He’s been with us for 15 years.

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The Mosaic Project is a collection of short stories about the people of University of Vermont Health Network. These are your coworkers, caregivers, neighbors, family members, friends – each with unique life experiences that are part of the vibrant mosaic of who we are.

09/26/2025

✨🧴 NEW EPISODE | Culture of Caring: Hair Care IS Health Care 🧴✨
Imagine having to shave your head after a hospital stay because the team caring for you wasn’t able to properly care for your hair.
🔗 Listen online: https://bit.ly/4nkGooF

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⭐ Real stories. Real care. Real impact. ⭐
Listen to LIVING HEALTHY TOGETHER for real stories, expert insights and practical health tips straight from UVM Health patients, caregivers and leaders.

Hair care in the hospital can be challenging—especially for people of color. Join us this week as we sit down with a multidisciplinary team of nurses and other health care professionals at UVM Medical Center who created the hospital’s Hair Equity Program, along with the leaders whose support helped launch one of the most innovative approaches to advancing health equity and improving outcomes.

09/25/2025

Let's keep the 💚 flowing for all our advanced practice providers! Do you have an advanced practice provider who has made a big difference in your life? Let us know!

09/24/2025

⭐ Real stories. Real care. Real impact. ⭐
Living Healthy Together | Culture of Caring: Hair Care IS Health Care

Imagine having to shave your head after a hospital stay because the team caring for you wasn’t able to properly care for your hair.

Hair care in the hospital can be challenging—especially for people of color. Join us this week as we sit down with a multidisciplinary team of nurses and other health care professionals at UVM Medical Center who created the hospital’s Hair Equity Program, along with the leaders whose support helped launch one of the most innovative approaches to advancing health equity and improving outcomes.

Created in partnership with patients and community members, the hospital’s leading-edge approach to holistic care aims to move the needle on one of the most scrutinized measures of success in health care: patient experience and satisfaction.

📻 Tune in live Friday at 1 pm on WDEV:
FM 96.1, 96.5, 98.3, 101.9 | AM 550

🔗 Or listen on-demand:
https://bit.ly/4gj01ux

09/23/2025

💚🎉 It's APP Week! We're celebrating all our advanced practice providers who bring dedication, skill and compassion to our patients and their families each and every day. We are so thankful for everything you do!

09/21/2025

🌱🥬✨IN KALE WE TRUST ✨🥬🌱
“Eat More Kale” changed his life – but more than that, it showed what can happen when you follow your gut. Meet Bo Moore, a transport tech at Central Vermont Medical Center.

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When I was 27, I moved to Vermont with a Rottweiler, a python, a black cat, a southern accent, a history degree and no local references.

I’m 53 now and things have worked out pretty well - though it has been kind of a wild ride. At one point, I even found myself in the national spotlight. For me, it always comes back to connecting with people, no matter what I happen to be doing.

My first job was as an event photographer at Auburn University, where I was a student. I shot everything from football games to parties, and I loved it. Carrying around a big camera gets you VIP treatment in a lot of places.

I had family in Vermont, which is how I eventually landed here. I stopped in Montpelier one August day, and with a 50-cent newspaper I found both a job and a place to live.

A connection at the local school led me to become a caregiver for special-needs adults — a role I had for almost 20 years, mostly in my home. It was a rewarding job, and it gave me a chance to be a hands-on dad. I’m proud and grateful to be the parent of three happy and healthy kids.

I also started a T-shirt printing business.

I never thought of myself as an artist – more of a doodler. But things took off when I came up with a simple design: Three words, “Eat More Kale.”

It wasn’t my favorite design, but it changed everything. It started a trademark battle with Chick-fil-A, the fast-food giant behind “Eat Mor Chikin.” I eventually won, but not before landing on CNN, the New York Times and in countless other media outlets. The local support was incredible – even Vermont’s governor got involved.

It was a moment when everything clicked: farmers markets were booming, co-ops were catching on and people were just learning what ‘localvore’ meant.

I hand-printed more shirts than I ever imagined and gave away 15,000 “Eat More Kale” bumper stickers a year. I didn’t get rich, and you can only do that kind of thing for so long – but there’s no question it changed my life. For one thing, I had to know what kale was – and eat some – so my diet and lifestyle improved.

These days, I’m connecting with people in a different way. I walk about 20,000 steps a day around the hospital, where my wife, Nicole, is a nurse. I’m never in one place for more than five minutes. And if I find a joke that works, I get to tell it 60 times.

“Eat More Kale” changed my life – but more than that, it showed me what can happen when you follow your gut. That’s what I’ve done most of my life. If you have an idea and it feels right, run with it.

09/20/2025

✏️ NEW EPISODE | Healthy Starts: Kids, Classrooms and Care ✏️ As kids head back to school, we take a closer look at the health challenges students and families face.
🔗 Listen online: https://bit.ly/4gA9CO3

⭐ Real stories. Real care. Real impact. ⭐
Listen to LIVING HEALTHY TOGETHER for real stories, expert insights and practical health tips straight from UVM Health patients, caregivers and leaders.

UVM Health pediatric experts in youth mental health, public health and absenteeism share real-world solutions. Join Dr. Keith Robinson, Dr. Heidi Schumacher and Dr. Steven Schlozman as they discuss new research that deepens our understanding of what students need to succeed and offer reflections on the back-to-school experience for parents and caregivers.

09/18/2025

🚨 🚨 Being a paramedic sometimes means caring for people in incredibly tight and precarious spaces - like an overturned vehicle or on a steep mountain slope. Delivering life-saving care in those situations requires a lot of training and a ton of practice - both of which are on offer at our growing paramedic training program.

🚑 The program, supported by state and federal funding, is helping to address a longstanding rural health care challenge by expanding access to paramedic and EMT education, while ensuring reliable advanced first responder care throughout Vermont and northern New York.

✏️ The curriculum includes immersive lab sessions, cadaver labs, and one-on-one clinical time with EMS-trained physicians — experiences that instructor Sarah Lamb calls “game changers” for students: “Getting one-on-one time with physicians on patient assessments and handoffs — that’s truly unique.”

The program currently enrolls 28 students and has a 100% placement rate for graduates within a 45-minute drive of their home.

📸 Pictured here is instructor Brad Ketover and paramedics in training Christina Lapera, Emma Diefendorf, Marah Kreis, Rachel Rudi, Hannah Cochran and Eric Cruger.

❓ Interested in the program? https://bit.ly/4mujEla

09/17/2025

⭐ Real stories. Real care. Real impact. ⭐ As kids head back to school, we take a closer look at the health challenges students and families face.

LIVING HEALTHY TOGETHER | Healthy Starts: Kids, Classrooms & Care

In this episode, we’ll discuss mental health at home and in the classroom, the current state of chronic absenteeism and its impact on wellbeing and scholastic achievement and rural access to care. We’ll also highlight community-based support services that help students and families respond to challenges as they arise.

Pediatric experts in public health, youth mental health and absenteeism share real-world solutions. They discuss new research that’s deepening our understanding of what students need to succeed, and they reflect on the back-to-school experience for parents and caregivers.

Join Dr. Keith Robinson, Dr. Heidi Schumacher, and Dr. Steven Schlozman for an in-depth look at how to set students up for success this year.

📻 Tune in live Friday at 1 pm on WDEV:
FM 96.1, 96.5, 98.3, 101.9 | AM 550

🔗 Or listen on-demand: https://bit.ly/4gj01ux

09/15/2025

🩺REDEFINING PAIN: A NEW MODEL FOR CARE 🩺 Two lives changed by injury and chronic pain… their stories may shift how you think about pain — and recovery.
🎧Listen now: https://bit.ly/4mkSih4

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✨Real stories. Real care. Real impact. ✨
(First aired on WDEV, now streaming as a podcast.)

A spinal surgery gone wrong left John Killacky paralyzed and living in debilitating pain. After a traumatic hit-and-run accident, Emily Metcalfe woke up in the hospital, quadriplegic, and in need of months of physical and occupational therapy as she relearned how to walk.

On this episode of Living Healthy Together, UVM Health Network's podcast, John and Emily share their stories, their experiences living with chronic pain, and how the Comprehensive Pain Program at University of Vermont Medical Center helped them learn to control their pain, rather than be defined by it.

They're joined by Dr. Joshua Plavin and Laurel Audy, RN, two founding members of the Comprehensive Pain Program who reflect on their own roles building a unique, leading-edge approach to treatment and support. They share how the program's holistic approach to patient care and wellness challenges health care's status quo and could make an impact even for those who aren't living with chronic pain.

09/13/2025

🔦🕯️Finding Light in Darkness 🕯️🔦
"When you're a doctor, you think you can handle anything life throws at you. I thought I had it all figured out. Then my daughter Victoria taught me I knew nothing at all."

Meet Dragos Banu, MD, a primary care internal medicine doctor and division chief of primary care for AHMC, CVPH, PMC and ECH.

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I met my wife in medical school during a clinical rotation at a hospital in Brooklyn, NY. She was a PA in the emergency room. She's from Bulgaria. I'm from Romania. We both immigrated as children, so we understood each other's journey.

We moved to Malone, NY, in 2014 with our one-year-old son, Christian, and life felt perfect. We were paying down the mortgage, building careers. When we got pregnant again, everything seemed like a fairy tale.

Victoria was born on New Year's Eve at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital. Things seemed fine, but she wasn't meeting her milestones. She cried constantly and had trouble lifting her head. At five months, an MRI revealed the devastating truth: She'd had a massive perinatal stroke. Most of her brain had died.

We brought her home under hospice care. In her final hour, I couldn't bear to watch my own child die. My wife couldn't either. Our mothers held Victoria as she passed at nine months old.

The guilt nearly destroyed me. I'd cry between patients. I wore sunglasses so strangers wouldn't see my tears. For years, I couldn't talk about her.

I found healing by doing something unexpected — providing hospice care for my patients. I comforted their loved ones. I sat with them as they died. I secretly hoped they'd talk to Victoria for me.

Each time I helped a family through their darkest moment, I understood my own grief a little better. Everyone carries their own cross. Some have lost two children, some three. As Ram Dass said, we're all walking each other home.

Two years later, Leo was born. His middle name is Victor, after his sister.

Victoria changed how I see every person. Behind every smile might be someone crying behind sunglasses. You never know what someone's carrying until you really listen.

My heart will always have a missing piece until I see her again. But she taught me the most important lesson of my life — the deepest pain can lead to the greatest compassion.

09/11/2025

🐝 🐝 🐝 Award time! Congrats to Cheng Pan, who helps to keep us all health with his tireless compassion and work with our employee health team. Cheng truly is an example of what is means to be exceptional! Thank you!

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