Last week provided a moment of reprieve as the fire alarm went off during the morning and we were all forced outside to enjoy the sun.

Groundworks Collaborative, a local agency for people who are hungry or without housing, is set to receive help from other providers this month as it regroups after last week’s killing of a shelter coordinator.

Many of her clients don't believe it when Maryland-based tax preparer Diana Avellaneda tells them they might qualify for low-cost health coverage.

For the past three months, signs greeting visitors to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington have made plain that verbal and physical abuse of healthcare workers will not be tolerated.

As demand for inpatient mental health treatment for kids skyrockets, a Bennington hospital is exploring whether it has the means to open a new psychiatric care unit.

Going into this week, the big thing on my mind is the House Judiciary Committee’s discussion on the violence against health care workers bill, S.36.

Rutland Regional Medical Center is working to hire more staff and keep them safer once they’re on the job, hospital leadership said this week.

Patients and employees at University of Vermont Health Network’s three Vermont hospitals will no longer be required to wear masks in public spaces beginning April 12, the organization announced Thursday.

Back in 2009, a panel of independent health care experts changed its guidelines on breast cancer screenings to recommend that women begin getting routine mammograms at age 50, instead of 40.

A record staffing shortage has led the Howard Center to reduce the number of “crisis beds” in Burlington and combine programs in a move some say will leave vulnerable people seeking support for substance use disorder and mental health issues in the lurch.

Vermont state regulators have been treating rule-breaking at residential care homes and assisted living residences with less urgency than is required for skilled nursing homes, according to a report released Wednesday by the Office of the State Auditor.

Telehealth appointments took over during the pandemic, but now in-office is the norm again.

As predicted, 2022 was a challenging fiscal year for Vermont’s 14 community hospitals, which as a group registered almost $62 million operating loss. Hospitals have said that those losses, already creating instability, will only deepen unless regulators change their oversight methods.

Regulatory Flexibilities: The governor signed the COVID regulatory flexibilities bill, H.411, into law last week just shy of the March 31st deadline. VAHHS appreciates the quick work on this bill from the legislature and the governor’s office.

Vermont’s mental health care system was under the microscope again Wednesday as state regulators unanimously voted to give the UVM Health Network greater flexibility on how it spends funds originally earmarked for adult inpatient psychiatric care.

FEMA awarded the state of Vermont over $3 million to help with COVID-19 hospital staffing costs.

Urgent care for the mind — that's the idea behind a new proposal to improve mental health care in the Northeast Kingdom.

The CEOs of two northern Vermont hospitals spoke soberly with U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and federal and state administrators Friday morning about their concerns for the future at a roundtable discussion that also celebrated the awards of two long-term, low-interest federal loans.

In Vermont, for both weather and the legislature, March is in like a lion and out like a lion. Last week wrapped up the crossover deadline for money bills.

I had the honor last week of attending a health care roundtable with Senator Peter Welch and United States Department of Agriculture undersecretary for rural development Xochitl Torres Small.