Following more than a 12 months of setting up, fundraising and corporation, 3 Peaks Professional medical Clinic opened at Sugarbush’s Lincoln Peak in Warren final Friday, December 16.



The clinic is open on weekends and is staffed by an amazing cadre of volunteer doctors. It is managed by a board of directors and has two staff members members, a scientific apply supervisor and x-ray technician. The board includes government director Chad Borofsky, president Barb Masser, and Gain Smith, Warren.

In accordance to Borofsky, in excess of the class of its opening weekend December 16-18, the clinic addressed 19 sufferers who would have normally called the Mad River Valley Ambulance Services, or pushed 45 minutes to Central Vermont Healthcare Centre to wait around in the unexpected emergency place for treatment.

“Our community EMS is brief-staffed and our hospitals are also about-burdened. By managing people below we have been able to maintain these individuals out of the Vermont overall health treatment system and lightened the load on neighborhood EMS,” Borofsky explained.

Injuries dealt with ranged from a coronary heart-associated health care ailment to many arm and leg fractures, he documented.

The new clinic relies on volunteer physicians and paid out staffers Lynne Brophy, medical apply managerm and Steve Mason, x-ray technician.



The way the clinic is operating, Borofsky claimed is that ski patrollers provide patients to the clinic where by the individuals come to a decision if they want to be addressed there or transported by MRVAS or non-public vehicle for treatment elsewhere. There are two volunteer health professionals on duty each individual day, just one is commonly snowboarding and the other is in the clinic through the working day. The volunteer health professionals obtain a ski go for their volunteer function.

The clinic does not just take insurance coverage. There is a flat charge established for an x-ray centered on the normal out-of-pocket price for an x-ray.

“We do not cost for original evaluation or analysis and our physicians are some most highly trained crisis area and orthopedic doctors in the location. We do cost $175 for x-rays and other scaled service fees for procedures(laceration repair service) and splinting materials, and so forth.,” Borofsky defined.

The clinic is open to the community as nicely during its regular hours. People leasing condos on the mountain who want remedy for non-skiing difficulties or other visitors and local people who get wounded all-around their homes are welcome to use the clinic as properly as these who may come across them selves with other medical troubles.

The 3 Peaks board and many others raised close to $300,000 to get the clinic open. The house applied to host a UVM Clinical/Orthopedic clinic that shut all through COVID. Alterra, Sugarbush’s father or mother enterprise, is donating the place for Three Peaks Professional medical Clinic.

The clinic will be open up Friday by Sunday all through the ski time. The clinic will be shut on Christmas Eve and Christmas Working day. It will be open up during the rest of the vacation week. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new clinic is tenatively slated for December 30. Specifics will be forthcoming.

Three Peaks Clinical Clinic is a registered nonprofit. All those interested in serving to the clinic carry on to work, increase and evolve even now have opportunities to develop into a founding donor($1,000 donation receives a plaque on the wall as a founding member) or to invest in one of the rooms in the clinic ($20,000).

“We are also hoping to order a cardiac check ($30,000) and an ultrasound equipment ($5,000). People intersted in earning a donation can access out to me at 802-279-3593 or email me at This e mail tackle is getting guarded from spambots. You need to have JavaScript enabled to watch it. ,” Borofsky extra.