Happy Town Meeting Week! You may see your local legislator out in the wild at the grocery store or the transfer station. If you do, feel free to share the VAHHS Advocacy Agenda. Next week will be crossover week, where non-money bills must be voted out of committees or else remain on the wall until next year. Stay tuned!

Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is offering two sessions of their popular MedQuest Program this summer at Rutland Regional Medical Center, Springfield Hospital, and North Star Health.

More than 13,000 Vermonters have Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, and for every patient, there are twice as many friends or family members providing care. This hour, we'll talk about Alzheimer's and dementia with a UVM neurologist. We'll also hear from an advocate discussing help for patients, caregivers and families.

An innovative cancer treatment that uses a patient’s own immune system to attack the disease is now available for patients in Vermont and northern New York for the first time.

Colleen Ballard knew her industry was in distress. The seasoned paramedic had been hearing doomsday predictions about the future of emergency medical services for years, and her colleagues at Essex Rescue were feeling the strain of rising call volumes, staffing shortages and underfunding.

Please take a few minutes to watch the video from our Workplace Violence Summit. I hope that you are moved to support S.36, now under consideration in the Vermont House, which is an important first step toward making this unacceptable violence stop.

On any given day, Alexandra Bannach, a pediatrician in Newport, will have three or four patients scheduled to see her for a check-in about ongoing mental health treatment, most commonly for depression or anxiety.

Authorities say they were notified by the General Counsel of the Rutland Regional Medical Center that their staff was receiving an abundance of unwanted and threatening emails and voice mails from Jay G. Cooke.

Senators are eying the growing shortage of health care workers in the United States as one of the few problems where there is room for bipartisan solutions, even in a deeply divided Congress gearing up for a presidential election cycle.

Since last year, The University of Vermont Health Network has worked to reach a new agreement on behalf of patients who receive commercial insurance through UnitedHealthcare.

As we head into town meeting week next week, the countdown to crossover has begun. Things are starting to move fast!

Vermont health care regulators are expected to decide soon how the UVM Health Network will spend $18 million on mental health resources.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are examining ways to address the growing shortage of healthcare workers nationwide.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimates this shortfall will be upwards of 124,000 physicians by 2034.

The state of Vermont recognized Recovery Day on Wednesday, celebrating all of the hard work that goes into recovery from substance use disorder.

Celebrations took place both online and at various in-person events across the state.

"I never thought that I would get clean and sober," said Krista Chesebro. "I just celebrated 19 months."

The University of Vermont Medical Center today submitted a certificate of need (CON) to the Green Mountain Care Board for a multispecialty outpatient surgery center (OSC) to be located at its current Tilley Drive campus in South Burlington. The new facility will help meet the need for surgical services for an aging and growing population in the hospital’s service area.

Last week, Gifford Health Care’s Ashley Lincoln, the vice president of development and public relations, sent out a missive to legislators summarizing some of the organization’s concerns and highlighting key pieces of legislation after a meeting with legislators in January was called off due to inclement weather.