Since the mid-1950s, Fletcher Allen Health Care has performed tens of thousands of heart surgeries and cardiac catheterizations. But what's more important to us than the number of procedures we do is the impact we have on these patients - giving second chances to people who have so much more life to live.

Our Affiliation with the University of Vermont

Fletcher Allen, in alliance with the University of Vermont College of Medicine, is Vermont's only academic health center and one of only 125 such centers in the country. By linking research, medical education training, and patient care, we develop new lifesaving drugs, medical devices, and surgical procedures that improve the quality of health care and our patients' quality of life. We also have the special responsibility of training the medical professionals of tomorrow.

Cardiac Care

Cardiac care is delivered through two groups at Fletcher Allen, each designed to provide patients with technologically advanced care:

• University Cardiology Associates is a physician group that has been dedicated to excellence in clinical care, research, and academic training for 50 years. Each year, our physicians see more than 12,000 ambulatory and hospitalized patients, perform approximately 1,500 coronary interventions, and implant more than 1,000 pacemakers and defibrillators.
• The Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Fletcher Allen is a multidisciplinary group dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of diseases involving the heart and chest. This specially trained care team includes four board-certified cardiothoracic surgeons with more than 50 years of combined experience, plus physicians' assistants, nurses, anesthesiologists, and support staff who are invaluable to our patients and their families.

Quality of Care

At Fletcher Allen, we live by our mission statement: to improve the health of the communities we serve. Everything we do is done with the patients' best interests in mind.  Our patients deserve no less.

We constantly seek ways to improve our care by evaluating and using some of the most advanced technologies available and by contributing to and staying abreast of all the latest information in the field. In addition, we lead clinical research studies resulting in new treatments and the cures of tomorrow and provide continuing medical education to the physicians in the region.  All of this keeps us focused on providing top-quality care to our patients.

Fletcher Allen Health Care -- 50 years of experience; 50 years of providing cardiac care to the people of Vermont and northern New York.