Our Team

Care that Matters

The healthcare landscape is constantly evolving with new procedures, technology and medications.

Our skilled medical and dental care teams provide the highest level of individualized support for our patients.

Our goal is dedicated to improving the quality of life, reducing hospitalizations and improve health outcomes for everyone we serve.

Mountain Community Health Management

MCH is dedicated to keeping health care local, serving the people from the Five Town area in Addison County, Vermont, including Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro.

We are committed to encouraging the wellness of our families, neighbors and friends through improving access to Primary care, Dental care and Mental healthcare services.

Our Executive team, Support Staff

The Mountain Community Heath Executive Team and support staff works every day to ensure the mission and vision of the organization is carried out in an efficient and professional manner. Providing an environment where quality, compassionate care is paramount – our executive team is dedicated to making our community a better place to live.

Our Board includes local community leaders who bring a wealth of experience from within and outside the medical and dental fields.

Our Clinical Team

Exceptional Patient Care

Providing exceptional care includes creating a healing environment where all patients feel safe, comfortable and where recovery and restoring full health is our main goal. At MCH, our priority is to ensure that each patient is valued, respected and well cared for, providing the highest quality of care. At MCH – the patient always comes first.

Clinical Team

Brian Bates, MD

Brian grew up in Maryland and first ventured to New England for undergraduate studies at Dartmouth. He went to medical school at the University of Maryland and then completed his family medicine residency at Boston Medical Center where he continued to work as a teaching physician. He practices full-spectrum primary care for children and adults. He also provides medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders with Suboxone. Outside of work, Brian enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, outdoors activities, beekeeping, gardening, and playing music.

Suzanne Germain, ANP

Suzanne is one of the original founders of Mountain Health Center with her husband Dr. Ed Clark, which started in 1986. She has lived in VT since age 11 (so not quite a native Vermonter). Suzanne graduated from UVM nursing school with an AD in 1976 and a BSN in 1985, and then became a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. She just recently completed her master’s in 2013 as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. Her work as an NP has taken her all over the world volunteering in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Ethiopia, and locally at the Open Door Clinic. In addition, Suzanne speaks fluent Spanish and French.

Tonya Howard, FNP

Tonya is doing acute care one or two days a week at MHC. She has been involved at many levels and in different roles in the community health center world in Vermont. She lives in Underhill, has 2 cats and a big farmhouse and barn she has been “bringing back to life”, and enjoys having guests, retreats, and gatherings there. She always has an audiobook queued up for the commute. She graduated from Yale University School of Nursing with her Master’s too many years ago to admit and continues to love learning, traveling, swing dancing, hiking, singing, eating and cooking good food, and cherishes time with her diverse group of friends.

Kate LaMancuso, MD

Kate is originally from western New York. She took the long path to medicine, via undergraduate studies in literary arts and Italian studies at Brown University. She completed her post-baccalaureate premedical studies in Buffalo. There, she fell in love with family medicine and its power for individual and community transformation while working as a medical case manager at a refugee service agency. She completed medical school and a family medicine residency at Brown University, where she pursued clinical and research interests in women’s health, global health, and health care for vulnerable populations. Kate is eager to participate in the Addison County community through her work at Mountain Health Center. She enjoys hiking, traveling, reading, yoga, Green Mountain culinary adventures, and spending time with family and friends.

Lindsay Soares-White, FNP

Lindsay Soares-White graduated from the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in 2008. She has chosen to work in community health centers throughout her career because she shares the belief that health care is a human right and that individual health is interconnected with family, community, and society. Lindsay takes a collaborative approach to the care she provides. She loves learning about people, hearing their stories, and building trusting relationships that help people move toward their health goals. She lives with her partner and toddler in Lincoln, where they spend their days exploring puddles and singing while meandering.

David Turner, MD

David has practiced in Family Medicine and Women’s Health for over 25 years, the last 13 locally in Vermont. He enjoys working with patients to improve their overall wellness and believes his role is to listen to and help patients make informed decisions about their health. He graduated from the Dartmouth/Brown Program in Medicine, Tacoma Family Medicine Residency and Rural Fellowship, and Dartmouth/Hitchcock OB/GYN Residency. He enjoys coaching soccer, hiking, cross-country skiing, and spending time with his wife Laura Weylman MD, and their family.

Jennifer Wisdom-Behounek, MD

Dr. Wisdom-Behounek grew up in a rural community in Illinois and attended the University of Illinois for medical school, where she had additional specific training in rural medicine. Residency took her to Columbia, Missouri, where she completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Missouri. She has worked in private practice, and in academic medicine teaching medical students in addition to clinical care. She has additional training and a specialized interest in Lifestyle and Nutritional Medicine to prevent and reverse disease where possible. She loves to travel, recreate outdoors, and write about the research illustrating nature’s positive impact on human health.

Your Team of Local, Caring Dentists

Dental Care for the Entire Family

Our team is comprised of experienced and exceptional dentists, hygienists, nurses and support staff.

Using the most advanced technology available to achieve oral and overall health, we welcome you to our warm and inviting offices here in Bristol.

Our dental team offers care for your entire family, with comprehensive dental services to keep your smile beautiful and healthy for a lifetime.

Dental Providers

Mohammed Moeeduddin Ahmed, BDS MSD

Dr. Moeed is a dual-trained dental specialist having received specialty training in Prosthodontics and Orofacial Pain. He enjoys practicing a full scope of prosthodontic procedures ranging from dentures, dental implants, crowns and bridges, and aesthetic dentistry to restorative dentistry. On the orofacial pain side, Dr Moeed loves to treat disorders of the temporomandibular joint. He has also received training in dental sleep medicine. In addition to enjoying treating patients, he is performing research on different treatment modalities of temporomandibular joint disorders. Dr Moeed has always wanted to work at a community health center for the sole reason of providing oral care to a population that have less access to care. During his time away from work, Dr Moeed loves to explore the outdoors, read about current world affairs, play cricket and table tennis, and spend time with his family.

MCH Executive Officers

Leadership for Today and Tomorrow

Our executive team manages the day-to-day operations of our organization, coming from all areas of the health management and business to help position MCH to succeed today and well into the future.

MCH Management

Martha Halnon CPC, CAPPM, CMPE

Chief Executive Officer

Greg Macdonald

Chief Financial Officer

Kaylee LeCompte, R.D.H

Dental Director

Meet the MCH Board

Making a Positive Difference in our Community

Our Board members each have distinguished careers and bring a wealth of experience to Mountain Community Health. The Board’s overall stewardship and advisory input is essential to helping maintain the exceptional services we provide our communities.

We are a group of citizens from the Five Towns area in northeastern Addison County, Vermont: Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven, and Starksboro. We come from a variety of backgrounds within and outside of healthcare. We are interested in community building and furthering the wellness of our families, neighbors, and friends through improving access to primary care, dental care, and mental healthcare services.

We believe that healthy communities begin with healthy families, neighbors, and friends and that receiving support from a primary care physician, dentist, or mental health clinician should not be limited by the ability to pay. We recognize that healthcare is a fundamental right to which all are entitled, and we are motivated to turn this belief into reality.

Board Members

James Dumont

Board Chair

Jim Lives in Lincoln and has a law office in Bristol.

Mary Berry-Hutchins

Treasurer

Mary is a native of Addison County and currently lives in Starksboro, VT. Mary has worked her life in accounting. She started at Chamberlain and Associates in Middlebury, VT, where she worked for ten years and ultimately decided that tax accounting was not her passion. From that experience, Mary started her own bookkeeping business in 2004. In addition, for the past eight years, Mary has served as the Office Manager/Bookkeeper of Auto Creek in Vergennes, VT, as one of her clients.

Norma Norland

Secretary

After many years in Lexington, Massachusetts, Norma Norland came to New Haven, Vermont, in 2011. She was an administrator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for twenty years, where she served as Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. While serving as Director, she also taught freshman seminars and collaborated in a number of educational studies.