Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Hinesburg Family Health Joins Fletcher Allen Health Care
BURLINGTON VT – Effective August 1, the Hinesburg Family Health medical practice located on Commerce Street, became part of Fletcher Allen Health Care’s Family Medicine Service. The out-of-state relocation of two of the three physicians in the practice, John Reynolds, M.D., and Argilla George, M.D., was the main impetus for this change.
The third physician, James Ulager, M.D., Holly Whitcomb, N.P., the nursing staff, and the reception staff, will be joined by Michael Sirois, M.D., a family medicine physician who resides in Hinesburg. He will relocate his practice from the Family Medicine Service’s South Burlington office to Hinesburg over the next several months.
In a letter to their patients, Drs. Reynolds and George stated, “We, and the Hinesburg community, are fortunate that Fletcher Allen has chosen to assume the operation of Hinesburg Family Health.” They continued, “We have the highest confidence that Fletcher Allen will serve your medical needs well, and that you will continue to have access to a high-quality primary care practice.”
Tom Peterson, M.D., physician leader of Fletcher Allen’s Family Medicine Service said in his letter to patients that the practice would continue to provide comprehensive primary care for men, women, and children, newborn care, elder care in the hospital, minor procedures, diagnosis of illness and injury, sports medicine, and home, nursing home and hospice care.
Recruitment is already underway to bring a third physician to the practice. Until that physician is hired, the Family Medicine Service will provide additional physician coverage to ensure that patients have access to a physician when needed.
About Fletcher Allen
Fletcher Allen Health Care, together with our partners at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, is Vermont’s academic medical center. Our mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education and research in a caring environment. Fletcher Allen serves as a regional referral center -- providing advanced care to approximately one million people in Vermont and northern New York -- and as a community hospital for approximately 150,000 residents in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties. For more information about Fletcher Allen, find us online at http://www.fletcherallen.org or on our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and blog sites at www.fletcherallen.org/socialmedia.
