130 Fisher Road
Berlin, VT 05602
About Our Location
The Community Health Team (CHT) at University of Vermont Health - Central Vermont Medical Center is a patient-centered multi-disciplinary team that strives to improve the primary health and wellness for all patients in central Vermont. CHT is committed to removing health barriers by offering services free of charge in the comfort of your primary care office. CHT services can help you or those you love improve their chances for reaching goals while providing one-on-one support.
Our CHT team works within the Central Vermont Medical Center primary care practices around central Vermont, as well as obstetrics, midwifery and gynecology.
Our Services
Our team offers a full range of services that will help you make changes in your life that will enable you to reach your goals.
Our health coaches are supportive individuals who are trained to help people with their personal health and wellness goals. Health coaches help develop strategies with the individual to overcome and create healthy behavior and lifestyle changes, such as weight loss, stress reduction or lowering risk of chronic disease.
Our Nutrition Education and Counseling Program includes one-on-one nutrition education and counseling, for adults and children, for many conditions.
Diabetes education is provided through our Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE). Our approach promotes patient-centered care, working with primary care providers to help patients take control of this chronic condition.
Our free Healthier Living Workshops are offered throughout the year at locations around central Vermont. Our workshops include:
- Tobacco Cessation
- Chronic Disease Self-Management
- Chronic Pain Self-Management
- Diabetes Prevention
- Diabetes Self-Management
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan (Emotional Wellness)
Our community health team provides assistance accessing community resources, such as:
- Housing
- Social services
- Mental health support
- Transportation
- Food assistance
- Pharmacy assistance
- Access to health care
- Paperwork assistance
- And more!
The role of the Panel Care Coordinator is to assist care teams in proactively managing and coordinating clinic services. This position serves as a liaison between providers and patients by coordinating health services to help patients with their health care goals.
Our team offers every pregnant and postpartum patient a wellness consult to review their support system, mental health, first aid, resources, referrals, family planning and general education, as well as provide support for pregnant and parenting women with addictions.
Our addiction counselors offer a variety of substance use disorder services and can help you access other resources in our community.
- SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment): Free early intervention and treatment services for patients at risk of developing substance use disorders.
- MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment): Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) program assists patients addicted to opioids with medication and other supports to help them in their recovery.
- RAM (Rapid Access to MAT program): Offered through our Emergency Department, RAM provides same-day treatment for opioid addiction and follow-up counseling services.
- CVTP (Central Vermont Treatment Partners): A partnership of health care professionals throughout central Vermont designed to quickly connect people in need of treatment for opioid use disorder to area treatment programs.
Our Team
Our Health Coordinator team consists of:
- Registered Nurses
- Social Workers
- Registered Dietitians
- Certified Diabetes Educators
- Certified Wellness Coaches
- License Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counselors