Gifford Health Care is spotlighting team members who live, work and deliver health care in rural Vermont, as part of its “Redefining Rural” video series. Gifford is a federally qualified health center with a critical access hospital in Randolph, Vt., and a network of community health centers throughout central Vermont and the Upper Valley.

Vermont is looking to revamp how we pay for health care.

UVM Health Network has launched two new nursing programs with Norwich University and Vermont State University.

Journey to Recovery, an addiction recovery center in the Northeast Kingdom, refers two people a week to inpatient treatment for alcohol use disorder.

Police say an assault at a Vermont hospital injured medical workers and a Vermont state trooper.

The public's massive enthusiasm for the upcoming total solar eclipse may only be matched by the anxiety felt by hundreds of hospitals in the path of totality.

Happy Eclipse Day! With all the school closures and traffic warnings, I’ve heard folks joke that this feels a lot like Y2k—a whole lot of concern over nothing. The thing about Y2k is that the “nothing” was the ultimate success story. There was a lot of preparation that went into ensuring that everything transitioned seamlessly.

The Vermont Chamber of Commerce has selected Thomas A. Dee, President and CEO of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), as the 2024 Citizen of the Year.

State health care regulators are asking Vermont’s hospitals to limit their growth and what they charge in the coming fiscal year.

The Vermont House voted Tuesday to give preliminary approval to a bill that would expand access to federal health insurance programs for Vermonters up to age 21, pregnant residents and older Vermonters.

It was another very busy week last week, as you’ll read in our legislative report and in the headlines of today’s Update. We’re over the midway point of the legislative session and those at the State House are working feverishly to get things done.

I need to correct the record! Thank you to Rep. Scheu who wrote in to let me know that I got it wrong last week—House Appropriations always formally votes on the budget on the Monday after the money crossover deadline.

According to the Vermont Department of Health, pharmacy claims will now begin processing again for drugs dispensed during the Change Healthcare outage.

UVM Health Network officials are sounding the alarm about a lack of long-term care capacity in Vermont and the impact it’s having on patients.

This weekend’s epic snow, just as spring officially “arrives,” feels about par for the course for this year so far. Doesn’t it just feel like everything is a bit “off”?

Ah, spring at the State House. I started my draft last week with something about our roads being muddy but the session shaping up with the money committee crossover deadline on Friday.

Last month, Jessica Wood, the director of the School of Nursing at Norwich University, introduced a reporter to Arthur, a child lying in a hospital bed on the Northfield campus.

On the Vermont Language Justice Project's YouTube channel, you'll find a video in Ukrainian about how to pick up prescription medications and another, in Mandarin, about why energy drinks are harmful.

Vermont’s Medicaid prescription claims system remains down and could still be weeks away from fully coming back online, according to the Department of Vermont Health Access.