Consultant deems Vermont health care system ‘badly broken’
VTDigger
Bruce Hamory, a medical doctor and consultant with the firm Oliver Wyman, had one key message for state officials on Wednesday: Vermont’s health care system needs to change, and quickly.
“The needs for structural reform of the Vermont health care system and systems cannot be overemphasized,” Hamory told the Green Mountain Care Board and Agency of Human Services officials during his presentation. Without significant changes in the next three to five years, he predicted, “hospital systems and the state will see deep financial deficits.”
Hamory’s presentation is a key step in a multi-year process, led by the Green Mountain Care Board, to assess how well the state’s hospitals and other care facilities are functioning and what needs to change. The care board regulates a broad swath of Vermont’s health care ecosystem.