As of the start of June, 96 people had used a pilot transportation program launched in March that brings mental health patients from emergency rooms in Vermont and New Hampshire to inpatient treatment at the Brattleboro Retreat.

The University of California San Diego is switching its anesthesia delivery system from leaky pipes to tanks and canisters.

After years of back and forth with Vermont health care regulators, The University of Vermont Health Network now says it has a plan to spend $18 million earmarked for mental health care.

Rural hospital executives acknowledge that it’s difficult to attract clinicians and other critical workers who may prefer to live in more urban settings.

It also becomes more challenging to bring workers from minority communities to areas where most of the residents are white.

Two of the seven bills that Gov. Phil Scott signed into law Tuesday set out specific law enforcement roles in supporting emergency and mental health care providers. Two others create changes in the treatment of criminal defendants with severe mental illness or deficits and where they will be treated.

Regulators voted Wednesday not to change their expectations for the revenue side of the states’ hospital budgets for fiscal year 2024, despite sustained and ongoing cost increases that led to big reported operating losses in 2022.

While hardly any hospitals are having an easy time these days, rural health systems are facing profound difficulties.

Formerly home to Brattleboro Pharmacy, a Canal Street building is now hosting a youth stabilization program for those between the ages of 12 and 18 to help support clinical, peer and case management supports as an alternative to hospitalization and a diversion from the emergency room.

Every week, hygienist Joanne Puente sees patients at the People’s Health & Wellness Clinic in Barre who have not seen a dentist in years and come to her with severe tooth decay.

The University of Vermont Medical Center is celebrating five years of teaching Stop the Bleed.

Several Vermonters with complex mental health needs were transferred to a new locked residential facility in Essex last week, officials from the state Department of Mental Health told legislators.

The war on doctors is underway in Republican-led states, and numerous physicians are fleeing for safer ground.

A hospital in one of Vermont’s rural regions has more patients with mental health issues than they can keep.

The region is in critical need of more health care workers.

Vermonters helping Vermonters -- that’s the message as Castleton University nursing students beta-test virtual reality technology for a local entrepreneurial venture.

Amid a national staffing shortage at health care facilities across the country, The University of Vermont Health Network and Vermont State University announced plans Thursday to expand funding for the university’s respiratory therapy training program.

A primary care doctor at the University of Vermont Health Network will soon start treating depression with a mind-altering drug that's shown promise in helping people who don't respond to traditional medicine.

As state legislatures across the United States enact new prohibitions against abortion and gender-affirming medical care, Republican Gov. Phil Scott Wednesday signed two bills that will protect health care providers and their patients from criminal charges filed by prosecutors outside the state of Vermont.

Springfield Hospital is partnering with Dartmouth Health Connected Care to use three forms of telehealth, according to a news release.