VTDigger From left, Rep. Mari Cordes, D-Lincoln; Rep. Saudia LaMont, D-Morristown; Rep. Esme Cole, D-Hartford; Rep. Ela Chapin-D East Montpelier; Rep. Jubilee McGill-D Bridport; and Rep. Brian Cina, P/D-Burlington made a ceremonial march on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, to deliver a bill reviving Green Mountain Care to the Office of Legislative Counsel, where bills are […]
Read moreVTDigger By Kristen Fountain Two health provider groups brought alarming anecdotes and statistics to the House Committee on Health Care this week, causing one new lawmaker to compare the state’s health care system to a village on fire. Unlike the evacuation of the Statehouse earlier in the week, this was not a drill. “In the […]
Read moreSeven Days By Colin Flanders Patients continue to wait weeks and months for specialty care at Vermont’s largest hospital, new data show. The University of Vermont Medical Center is seeing only about one third of new patients within two weeks of a referral to a specialist, far short of its stated goal of an 80 […]
Read moreVTDigger By Liora Engel-Smith Kevin Cheney’s events and crowd-control company is beginning to rebound from what has been a lean couple of years. Cheney, founder and majority owner of Green Mountain Concert Services Inc., recalls losing a quarter of a million dollars on the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown two years ago when everything […]
Read moreStowe Reporter Aaron Calvin and Avalon Styles-Ashley | Staff Writers Last December, as Vermonters chopped down Christmas trees, breathed life into inflatable reindeer and placed glowing menorahs in their windows, COVID-19-related hospitalizations surged. State health officials warned that a new Omicron variant had likely been in local communities for a while, becoming the state’s most […]
Read moreAddison Independent By Christopher Ross BRISTOL — It took just six presentation slides by Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer to astonish the audience of a virtual healthcare talk hosted by Bristol Democrats earlier this month. State healthcare costs are soaring, transparency is declining and the University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN) exerts outsize influence on […]
Read moreNote from Vermont Health Care for All: The article below examines the issue of why the legislature has not pursued universal health care since Governor Shumlin pressed the pause button on implementing Act 48, Vermont’s roadmap to publicly financed health care for all. It mentions the estimated costs (taxes) from the 2014 financing report for […]
Read moreVTDigger By Liora Engel-Smith Kristi Kilpatrick is running out of time. The 36-year-old has benign cysts on her ovaries, a condition the Burlington resident discovered last spring when she landed at the University of Vermont Medical Center emergency department with debilitating stomach pain. The cysts have to come out if she wants the pain to […]
Read moreSeven Days Posted By Colin Flanders on Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 10:04 AM Updated at 4:25 p.m. A state investigation into medical appointment delays has found that patients are waiting an average of two months to see a specialist in Vermont, far longer than the most recent national figures, according to a report released […]
Read moreSeven Days As a physician in private practice, Dr. Laura Norris decides for herself how many patients to see each day. She often schedules 30- and 60-minute appointments even though a jam-packed schedule would bring in more money, because she believes that having time to ask patients about their kids, jobs and even their summer […]
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