Green Mountain Care Board seeks input from health care providers during listening tour
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A dozen health care providers gathered at a roundtable Wednesday to tackle some of their biggest challenges, including rising costs and ongoing labor shortages.
The gathering of health care providers in Morrisville is to suss out the complex intersection of challenges facing the health care industry that impacts Vermonters seeking care.
“We have hospital sustainability challenges, we have non-hospital challenges, we have affordability challenges for Vermonters to access that care,” said Owen Foster, chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, the state’s health care regulator.
Costs continue to spiral, staffing concerns persist, and wait times for specialty care remain long. Many hospital leaders say the health care system is still feeling the effects of the pandemic. “We’ve learned a lot about how we really are connected deeply and we need each other to manage care, keep the cost down and do the best job we can,” said Copley Hospital’s Joseph Woodin.