In keeping with its mission to respect each and every patient that comes through its doors, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is training its staff to collect accurate information about each person's sexual orientation and gender identity along with their race, ethnicity, and language.

The Green Mountain Care Board denied nearly half of the increase sought by Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in its budget proposal.

The American Red Cross is asking Americans to roll up their sleeves.

Vermont’s health care regulator, the Green Mountain Care Board, wrapped up its review of the budgets of the state’s 14 hospitals on Friday by requiring another four of them to scale back expectations for increasing their charges in 2024.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines aimed at protecting people from new variants of the virus could arrive in Vermont this week — and the state’s top health official, Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine, is urging residents to get the shot.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says a new bipartisan bill will help address the nation’s shortage of health care professionals.

The extent of the Green Mountain Care Board’s ability to regulate the state’s only “all-payer” accountable care organization may end up being decided in court.

Earlier this summer, each Vermont hospital went before their regulator, the Green Mountain Care Board, to present and defend their budget and answer questions from the board and its staff. This is just one part of a months-long process.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will select up to eight states to participate in a new voluntary all-payer model that aims to curb health care cost growth, improve population health, and advance health equity by reducing disparities in health outcomes.

The Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin stopped admitting new patients during parts of June and July, leading to the lowest numbers of patients in residence since the hospital opened in the summer of 2014.

Coming off several years of the COVID-19 pandemic and the most recent devastating flooding in July, Gov. Phil Scott and mental health officials on Wednesday urged Vermonters to check in on themselves and their neighbors with a focus of not only their physical, but mental health wellbeing.

World Breastfeeding Month is in August but Vermont hospitals are keeping conversations on the topic going.

RSV spiked in Vermont last fall, but the medical community is hopeful that won’t happen this year thanks to an immunization a decade in the making.

Earlier this month, the Green Mountain Care Board made a decision that would affect most people and companies that get their health care through the state’s health insurance marketplace.

This summer has shown some of the lowest COVID-19 numbers nationwide since the start of the pandemic. However, recently there has been a small increase in cases seen nationwide and in Vermont, and a new variant — EG.5, which is a member of the omicron family.

The FDA earlier this month approved what experts describe as a game changer and ray of hope for women’s health -- the first-ever pill for treating postpartum depression, and manufacturers say zuranolone could be commercially available as soon as October.

COVID-19 cases nationwide are starting to tick up, and Vermont is seeing that trend, too. Dr. Tim Plante, a general internist, epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, answered questions about this newest wave, and when you can plan to get your next booster.

Health care regulators are considering double-digit increases for Vermont hospital budgets. If some of those new hospital budgets are approved, it would increase what you pay out of pocket.