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Rutland Regional hospital projects $7.6 million operating loss due to Covid-19
Rutland Regional Medical Center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Vermont is at the tail end of its most potent Covid-19 wave to date, but the pandemic’s financial implications continue to...
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Vermont hospitals, struggling to make ends meet, want to raise their service...
The Miller Building at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington on June 6, 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Two major Vermont health care providers have asked state regulators...
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State board keeps Rutland hospital waiting on its proposed price hike
Rutland Regional Medical Center is Vermont's second-biggest hospital. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger A controversial proposal from Vermont’s second-largest hospital is in limbo, after regulators this...
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Smaller Vermont hospitals forgo requests for service rate hikes
Rutland Regional Medical Center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Despite ballooning inflation and health care personnel costs, executives from Vermont’s smaller hospitals say they plan to keep...
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Vermont’s richest hospitals are seeking higher charges. The state’s poorest...
Rutland Regional Hospital, left, and The University of Vermont Medical Center. Photos by Emma Cotton and Glenn Russell/VTDigger The pandemic’s inflation and ballooning staffing costs have affected...
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Health insurance price hikes could have a huge impact on Vermont small...
Lake Champlain Chocolates in its 15,000-square-foot space in Williston in November 2019. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Kevin Cheney’s events and crowd-control company is beginning to rebound...
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Regulators reject Rutland hospital’s request for higher service charges
Rutland Regional Medical Center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger State regulators said no on Wednesday to a hefty increase in service charges at Rutland Regional Medical Center. On a 4-1 vote,...
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Rutland Hospital is short $7.6 million this year, and its request for higher...
Rutland Regional Medical Center. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Earlier this week, state regulators ordered Vermont’s second-largest hospital to cover a projected multimillion-dollar deficit without...
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Senate grafts costly prescription drugs amendment onto House pharmacy bill
A last-minute addition to a House bill to help Vermont’s independent pharmacies would grant UVM Health Network an effective regional monopoly on cancer medications and other specialty drugs. Insurers...
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State’s 2nd-largest hospital reopens Covid unit amid increase in...
Rutland Regional Medical Center. Photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Updated at 3:05 p.m. Vermont’s second-largest hospital reopened its coronavirus unit late last week to accommodate a growing number of...
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‘Constantly weighing the risk’: Emergency room nurses contend with rising...
Rutland Regional Medical Center. File photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Myla Lindroos was at the end of her shift Saturday night when a patient tackled her and kicked her in the stomach, she said....
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2nd-largest hospital in Vermont asks regulators for double-digit increase in...
Rutland Regional Medical Center. File photo by Emma Cotton/VTDigger Days after the largest hospital operator in Vermont asked regulators for hefty budget increases, Rutland Regional Medical Center is...
View ArticleMost Vermont hospitals enter this year’s budget season in the red
Vermont’s hospitals emerged from the latest coronavirus surge in a much weaker financial position than before the pandemic, their filings with state regulators show. Most hospitals — including the...
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On his ‘first day,’ U.S. Sen. Peter Welch talks opioid crisis in Rutland
U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, left, and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, right, listen as Rutland City Police Chief Brian Kilcullen, foreground, speaks at a roundtable...
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Several Vermont hospitals loosen masking restrictions for patients and staff
The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Patients and employees at University of Vermont Health Network’s three Vermont hospitals will no longer be...
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Rutland hospital seeks ’emergency’ permit to address safety concerns
Rutland Regional Medical Center. File photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger Rutland Regional Medical Center has requested an emergency state permit to spend up to $4 million to address potential safety...
View ArticleRutland Regional Medical Center reinstates elective surgery and outpatient...
Rutland Regional Medical Center is resuming outpatient surgeries and procedures, in-person physician clinic visits and diagnostic imaging services today in accordance with Gov. Phil Scott’s order....
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After armed altercation, Castleton man shot and killed by Fair Haven detective
Detective Shaun Hewitt. Provided by Vermont State Police. Updated at 5:44 p.m. A Fair Haven police officer shot and killed a 38-year-old man from Castleton on Monday night, according to Vermont State...
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New leader is well known at Rutland Regional Medical Center
Rutland Regional Medical Center, the largest community hospital in Vermont, announced on Friday that its board of directors named Judi Fox as president and CEO. Rutland Regional Medical Center...
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2 of every 3 beds empty as state psychiatric hospital tackles doctor...
The Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin on Tuesday. Photo by Natalie Williams/VTDigger The Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital in Berlin stopped admitting new patients during parts of June and...
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