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.
Nurse Practitioners
The overall plan of the Breast Care Center as a model system of managing patients with breast problems is to create a team of individual care providers. At each step, the special needs of a patient are matched with an appropriate care provider.
The Breast Care Center was one of the first Centers to effectively utilize the important skills provided by Nurse Practitioners that specialize in managing patients with breast problems. They have a wide range of responsibilities that includes the very important role of monitoring patients that have previously been treated for cancer. It is very clear that patients that have developed one cancer are at risk for developing a second new cancer. This service is provided both for breast cancer patients and for patients with melanoma.