A checkup of Vermont’s health care system as regulators consider community needs
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Experts got together in Rutland on Monday to chip away at some of the community’s most pressing problems inside and outside the hospital.
The pandemic may be in the rear view for many Vermonters but providers in Rutland staff say it has fundamentally changed the way our health care system works.
It’s a challenging time to be in health care.
“More patients who are much sicker than we had in the past and that’s difficult,” said Dr. Todd Gregory, the chief medical officer at the Rutland Regional Medical Center.
Leaders at the Rutland Regional Medical Center say many Vermonters are coming to the emergency room with chronic conditions and mental health challenges. The hospital is filled to the brim, partly because patients well enough to need less care have nowhere to go.