Medical Matters Weekly welcomes an integrative psychiatrist

Vermont Business Magazine Southwest Vermont Health Care (SVHC) Weekly Medical Questions with Dr. Trey Dobson is pleased to welcome Adam Pruett, MD, MPH, at noon on Wednesday, March 9. He is a psychiatrist at Taconic Psychiatry in Manchester, VT, which offers treatment for ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, and trauma. It is one of the first practices to offer ketamine-assisted therapy.
The show is produced with the cooperation of Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV). Viewers can see Weekly Medical Questions to facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington. The show is also available to view or download a podcast at www.svhealthcare.org/medicalmatters.
Adam Pruett, MD, MPH, graduated magna cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College with a bachelor’s degree in German. He completed medical school at the University of Alabama and a residency at Emory University. Pruett completed a one-year immersive internship with the Institute of Integrative Psychiatry focusing on integrative psychiatry, which aims to address the underlying causes of mental illness. For more than 10 years, Pruett has served patients in hospital settings in Alabama and Vermont.
After the program, the video will be available on public access television stations in the region. On CAT-TV, viewers will find the show on channel 1075 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 1:30 p.m. Monday, 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 7:30 a.m. Friday, and 7 p.m. Saturday. GNAT-TV’s Comcast channel 1074 airs the program at 8 a.m. Monday, 9 p.m. Wednesday, and 1 p.m. Saturday.
Weekly Medical Questions is an interactive, cross-platform, guest-hosted, medical-themed talk show hosted by Dr. Trey Dobson. It offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on healthcare and interesting personalities driving positive change within the industry and surrounding professions. Topics include behavioral health, food insecurity, equitable care, and the opioid crisis. The show is produced in partnership with Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV) and airs on CAT-TV, Greater Northshire Access Television, Facebook Live, YouTube and podcast platforms.
About SVHCs:
Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) is a preeminent, comprehensive health care system that provides exceptional, convenient, and affordable care to communities in Bennington and Windham counties in Vermont, east of Rensselaer and Washington counties in New York and north of Berkshire County in Massachusetts. The SVHC includes the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center, the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, and the SVHC Foundation. SVMC includes 25 primary and specialty care practices.
SVMC has won several important accolades. Most recently, SVMC received the American Hospital Association’s Rural Healthcare Leadership Award for transformational change in healthcare reform efforts and its fifth consecutive designation in the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program®. (ANCC). It ranked fourth in the nation for healthcare value by the Lown Institute’s Hospital Index in 2020 and is one of Vermont’s best places to work. SVMC has earned an “A” for Hospital Safety from Leapfrog Group for two consecutive years. During the pandemic, SVMC and its two skilled nursing facilities, Bennington Life and Rehabilitation Centers and Hoosick Falls Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, achieved perfect scores in an evaluation of service centers Medicare and Medicaid intended to determine the ability to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 and other infections.
BENNINGTON, VT—March 2, 2022—Southwestern Vermont Medical Center