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Gifford Health Care raises rates and reduces hours on its employee daycare center
“We’re entering a period of hard trade-offs in healthcare, and this is one of them,” the hospital CEO said, as the organization navigates the joint pressures of workforce retention and keeping expenses low.
Vermont has assigned its $195 million in federal rural health dollars. Here’s where it’s going.
The largest sums of money are directed toward hospital infrastructure upgrades and funds to facilitate hospital redesign.
Community nurse programs are getting a lot of airtime this election. Here’s how they work.
The nurses can’t provide hands-on care or bill an insurer but instead offer a broader, holistic suite of support.
Inside the confidential contest to lead Vermont’s most powerful healthcare regulator
The Green Mountain Care Board has become one of the most influential forces on how Vermont hospitals make and spend their money. Now, it’s in need of a new leader.
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Emergency medicine responders meet with Becca Balint to talk rural health bottlenecks
So many of the problems EMTs deal with, providers said, catch people where they fall through the cracks of other social services.
Local businessman donates $4 million to financially ailing Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
“I wanted to give something back,” said Willy Buhlmann, who emigrated from Switzerland more than a half-century ago to found and recently sell his Swiss Precision Turning machine shop.
Addison County lands $3 million grant to fight addiction
“Geographic isolation, provider shortages and pervasive stigma create compounding barriers that prevent individuals from entering and remaining in care,” reads a grant application submitted by the United Way of Addison County.
UVM Health watchdog turns its sights to Vermont’s broader healthcare system
Regulators can put pressure on a narrow slice of Vermont’s healthcare costs, but in their last report, independent liaisons open a conversation of how Vermont can reduce costs more evenly across the healthcare sector.
UVM Medical Center unions approve contracts and avert a strike
A sweeping majority of the more than 2,000 members of the two unions who voted, cast ballots in favor of the agreements, which largely address the unions’ demands surrounding staffing levels.
Universal primary care is at the center of the race for governor. How would it work?
Democratic challenger Amanda Janoo has proposed an income tax on the wealthiest Vermonters to fund primary and preventive care for all state residents. The idea has been met with support, skepticism and questions.
UVM Medical Center unions reach tentative agreement in contract negotiations
Union members now have until Sunday to vote on ratifying the contract.
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