VAHHS Update
MedQuest Program returns this summer
Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is offering two sessions of their popular MedQuest Program this summer at Rutland Regional Medical Center, Springfield Hospital, and North Star Health.
RRMC Health Talk: Future health care workers
According to the American Hospital Association, by 2026, there will be a shortage of over 3 million health care workers. The severity of the health care workforce shortage will be more acute for rural communities like those in southern Vermont.
RRMC Health Talk: Talking thyroid function
Your thyroid may be small, but it’s a workhorse when it comes to keeping you healthy. The butterfly-shaped gland in your lower neck produces hormones that affect your entire body. When your thyroid produces too much or not enough hormones, everything from your weight to your energy level may be affected.
Rutland Area Medical Community announces 2023 scholarship program
The Rutland Area Medical Community Scholarship committee recently completed its 2022 fundraising in support of the annual scholarship program raising close to $27,000 thanks to the generosity of Rutland area physicians, retired physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners.
Top Biden official joins Welch in Rutland to talk prescription drug and opioids
Making your medication cheaper and battling addiction-- that was the focus of top Biden administration officials who visited Rutland Monday.
A checkup of Vermont’s health care system as regulators consider community needs
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 rearview for many Vermonters but providers in Rutland staff say it has fundamentally changed the way our health care system works.