The Green Mountain Care Board plans to release 2024 rates for individual and small group health insurance plans purchased through the state exchange next week. Insurers have requested increases in the double digits due to rising health care costs.

Vermont is offering a special health insurance enrollment period and extended Medicaid benefits to people impacted by last month’s historic flooding.

Porter Medical Center (PMC) officials are seeking state approval of a fiscal year 2024 budget that projects $140 million in expenses, reflecting a $23 million increase compared to the $117 million originally budgeted for FY’23.

Vermont’s 14 hospitals have submitted their proposed budgets for next year.

Northern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury is celebrating a partial completion of a $22 million addition to the hospital.

A newly redesigned and expanded emergency department, as well as a new covered entrance for ambulances, will be put to use early next week at Grace Cottage Hospital.

Lamoille County and neighboring towns have certainly seen their share of rainfall this summer, resulting in catastrophic flooding, damage to houses, farms, roadways, and infrastructure, and the contamination of many towns’ drinking water systems.

You never know what can happen while driving a car, that’s why keeping your children safe is vital. But not all child safety seats are created equal.

The Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS) today announced that its non-profit hospitals submitted what are among what they called the most complex and challenged budgets in recent history to the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB), following years of negative margins and challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

To mark the completion of the mental health support area in its Emergency Department (ED), Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (NVRH) will hold an opening celebration on Tuesday, July 25.

As Vermont continues down the road to flood recovery, health officials are warning of the risks posed by contaminated water.

An agreement integrating Southwestern Vermont Health Care into Dartmouth Health has been signed and approved, making the hospital and its affiliated care providers part of a multi-hospital system, and formally tying the knot in a decade-long working relationship.

A local man was cited into court August 28, the result of an altercation that began at 10:34 p.m. July 8 at the Star Theatre on Eastern Avenue, continued at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and concluded early July 9 with the arrest of Michael Carpenter, 60, on a charge of assault on law enforcement.

North Country Hospital in Newport has entered into a new partnership with the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at UVM Children’s Hospital consisting of a Telemedicine Program for their Maternal Child Health Unit.

All of Vermont's 14 hospitals are nonprofit — something Mr. Del Trecco said has streamlined communication and collaboration during this time to reopen closed services as quickly as possible.

Life is getting back to normal at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin following several frantic days of flooding response in the area.

At least one hospital in Vermont postponed elective surgeries, and staff at multiple hospitals in the state slept at work overnight as historic flooding batters the region.

I hope you all enjoyed the holiday and extended time with family and friends this week. In between time with our loved ones, we’ve been busy at VAHHS putting the finishing touches on two projects that I’m happy to share with you this week.