Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) is pleased to announce that Sean Uiterwyk, MD has joined the Hospital’s team of family medical experts. Dr Uiterwyk will be seeing patients of all ages at Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor. Dr Uiterwyk, a Board-certified Family Physician, has extensive experience providing primary care to families. He graduated from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. He then completed his Family Medicine residency at Brown University’s Memorial Hospital in Rhode Island where he was Chief Resident. Dr Uiterwyk most recently served as a Family Physician at Atrius Health in Wellesley, Massachusetts from 2015 to 2017. While with Atrius, the largest ambulatory, multi-specialty physician group in New England, he served as Senior Medical Director for the Department of Performance Excellence, overseeing all quality, safety, and patient experience initiatives for the organization. Most recently, Dr Uiterwyk’s work has focused on improving patient safety by reducing missed or delayed diagnoses of cancer in primary care.
Previously, Dr Uiterwyk served as a physician at White River Family Practice and the Ottauquechee Health Center. Dr Uiterwyk is interested in team based care, quality improvement, and effective use of data to drive improvement. An experienced educator, he has served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Brown University, and as Clinical Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Dr Joseph Perras, CEO and Chief Medical Officer at MAHHC, called the return of Dr Uiterwyk to the Upper Valley welcome news for the staff, for patients, and for community health. “For years, Dr Uiterwyk played a significant role in pushing healthcare forward here in the Upper Valley, while providing outstanding care for his patients,” said Dr Perras. “His background in quality, patient safety, and performance excellence is highly valued at Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center. It’s wonderful to have him back in our region caring for the people he knows so well.”
About Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center
Founded in 1933, Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) is a not-for-profit community hospital network in Vermont including the critical access-designated Mt Ascutney Hospital and Historic Homes of Runnemede, a senior residential care campus, in Windsor, as well as the Ottauquechee Health Center in Woodstock. Affiliated with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System, MAHHC provides primary care and a comprehensive suite of specialty services, along with 25 inpatient beds, a therapeutic pool and an acclaimed, fully modernized 10-bed Acute Rehabilitation Center. Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center is dedicated to improving the lives of those it serves and is at the hub of a wide network of community resources that have partnered to cover gaps in services, and improve overall population health. One of the largest employers in the area, MAHHC acknowledges its employees as its greatest asset and has been recognized by the Governor’s Office with an Excellence in Worksite Wellness award.
Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), is a recent recipient of Best Practice recognition by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) for health care quality, and is recognized by the American Hospital Association (AHA) as one of the “Most Wired” hospitals for integration of technology to boost clinical performance. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has awarded MAHHC with Level 3 status, the highest level of medical home designation.