Wait times are long and clinicians are maxed out. Brave Little State takes a look at where the future of primary care is headed.

Gifford seeks to grow and diversify its nursing workforce by recruiting candidates from abroad with the help of workforce development partner inSpring.

A new infusion center at Rutland Regional Medical Center is reducing wait times and improving patient care.

Earlier this month, health insurance companies asked state regulators for permission to increase their premiums by roughly 9% to 19% — among the highest increases in recent history.

As Vermont health insurers are proposing hefty 2025 rate hikes for individual and small group plan premiums, members of the business community say that high health care costs are slowing down the local economy.

Vermont lawmakers are hoping that new legislation headed to the desk of Gov. Phil Scott will help patients afford prescription drugs, as rising pharmaceutical prices push up health care costs across the state.

Gov. Phil Scott on Monday evening signed H.766, a bill that takes aim at health insurance company practices such as “prior authorization” and seeks to free health care practitioners from burdensome paperwork.

This session, Vermont lawmakers passed a bill that could open the door for research into a new frontier of medical treatments. They involve psychedelics like psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA, and LSD.

The Vermont Department of Health has been forced to find new ways to report Covid-19 data after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped requiring hospitals across the country to report their Covid admission counts.

Vermont’s leading health insurance carriers are asking state regulators for double-digit rate increases.

OneCare Vermont, a pioneering Accountable Care Organization dedicated to improving Vermont’s healthcare system, has announced the launch of six new waivers aimed at enhancing access to mental health care, reducing hospital readmissions, increasing preventive care measure performance, and improving overall health care accessibility for Vermonters.

Half of America's rural hospitals are now operating in the financial red. According to a new report from healthcare consultancy Chartis, 50% of the nation's rural hospitals are now operating in the red. That number jumped from 43% last year.

Building accessible, affordable, quality health care for Vermonters is an overdue work in progress. Regardless of mixed results of past major reform efforts, Vermont’s goals to improve population health, advance health equity by reducing disparities in health outcomes and curb health care cost growth are possible.

Adults in central Vermont may wait months to see a primary care provider — and still they’re better off than people in many other regions. Local primary care clinics are scheduling new adult patients into late summer, autumn, and well beyond. Some are no longer adding names to their waitlists.

Friday night into Saturday morning culminated in two minor miracles: an aurora borealis and the adjournment of the legislative session.

Vermont legislators passed a bill to streamline insurance requirements for health care and are urging Gov. Phil Scott to sign the bill into law.

This January, lawmakers introduced two major pieces of legislation, both of which aimed to improve Vermonters’ ability to access health care.

Last week was National Nurses Week and my LinkedIn feed was flooded with celebrations and acknowledgments that included DAISY Awards and deep gratitude for caregivers across the country. It was such a boost all week to see the joy and pride on the faces of nurses nationwide and here in Vermont. I am fortunate to live with an incredibly talented 25-year veteran nurse, so I know very well the call to serve in this really challenging, but incredibly rewarding, profession.

This is it. The whole session has been a steady click, click, click of a rising car on a track. Now we’re over the apex and hurtling towards the end of the session. And, sure, sometimes that feels less like the wind in your face and more like sitting around waiting for your issue to happen, but what makes it a rush is that things can change in an instant.