SVMC Welcomes Nosa Aigbe Lebarty, MD, to the Hospital Medicine Department

BENNINGTON, VT—June 2, 2021—Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) is pleased to welcome Hospitalist Nosa Aigbe Lebarty, MD, to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Medical Group. 

Dr. Lebarty earned a bachelor’s in Biology from the City University of New York Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. He went on to earn his medical degree at Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland in 2008. He completed the Ellis Family Medicine Residency Program. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Dr. Lebarty is co-owner of Central Med Urgent Care on Central Ave. in Albany. He has worked as the medical director of Hospital Medicine and the chief of Medicine at Nathan Littauer Hospital, Gloversville, NY. He has worked in the Hospital Medicine Departments and as the medical director of Hospital Medicine for St. Mary’s Healthcare in Amsterdam and Oswego Hospital, both in New York, and as the medical director of several New York nursing homes. In addition, he is president and founder of Project Health Africa, a non-profit organization that seeks to increase access to quality health care in Africa.

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center hospitalists offer medical-surgical care, telemetry, and intensive care services to as many as 99 patients. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and is the state’s first Magnet Center for Nursing Excellence, a designation it has held since 2002.

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Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) is a comprehensive, preeminent, health care system providing exceptional, convenient, and affordable care to the communities of Bennington and Windham Counties of Vermont, eastern Rensselaer and Washington Counties of New York, and northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. SVHC includes Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center, the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, and the SVHC Foundation. SVMC includes 25 primary and specialty care practices.

Southwestern Vermont Health Care is among the most lauded small rural health systems in the nation. It is the recipient of the American Hospital Association’s 2020 Rural Hospital Leadership Award. SVMC ranked fourth nationwide for the value of care it provides by the Lown Institute Hospital Index and is a five-time recipient of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence. It has also received the highest marks possible from the Leapfrog Group. 

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center provides exceptional care without discriminating on the basis of an individual’s age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. Language assistance services, free of charge, are available at 1-800-367-9559.Southwestern Vermont Health Care complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. Language assistance services, free of charge, are available at 1-800-367-9559.