Insurance rates are set to spike next year after the Green Mountain Care Board this week approved rate increases for the state’s largest insurance companies.

The Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (VAHHS) urged the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) to approve hospital budgets as submitted ahead of the annual hearings before the regulatory body beginning this week.

Nearly all of Vermont’s hospitals are seeking double-digit percentage increases in income from patient services for 2024 over 2022, setting the stage for a likely battle with health care regulators.

Vermont hospital leaders are urging the Green Mountain Care Board to sign off on their historic budget requests ahead of the budget review on Wednesday.

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital initiated a lockdown Friday night after two men arrived with gunshot wounds.

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.