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OneCare Vermont, an accountable care organization aiming to reform how health care in Vermont is paid for, will shut down at the end of 2025, the organization announced Wednesday.The University of Vermont Health Network subsidiary was the lead...

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Top officials at the Department for Children and Families acknowledged the existence of an internal calendar used to monitor Vermonters’ pregnancies, confirming an allegation made in a striking lawsuit filed by the Vermont ACLU in January.  

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The University of Vermont Health Network has reached a tentative agreement with the Green Mountain Care Board to resolve a dispute over the fact that the hospital network brought in roughly $80 million more patient revenue in the 2023 fiscal year than it was allowed to. 

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The Vermont Department for Children and Families asked a judge Monday to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it surveilled pregnant Vermonters, arguing that the suit did not stand up to legal scrutiny.

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A Norwich University professor and the advisor to the student newspaper filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that administrators mounted a “pressure campaign” to suppress stories that reflected poorly on the university.

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State regulators signed off on a proposal from Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt., to construct a roughly $10 million psychiatric unit for adolescents, overruling concerns from the Brattleboro Retreat and a disability advocacy group.

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At Rutland Regional Medical Center, administrators have long wanted to combine two different parts of the hospital: the birthing center and the Women’s and Children’s Unit. 

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Vermont lawmakers are seeking to implement new oversight measures on hospitals and limit how much they could charge for care, proposals that would significantly change how the state’s largest health care providers can operate. 

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A Department for Children and Families official said that a planned Vergennes residential youth facility will not include space for older teens, backtracking on earlier plans to expand the campus. 

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During a visit last month to Community Health Centers’ Riverside location, in Burlington’s Old North End, CEO Jeffrey McKee encouraged a reporter to look around the crowded waiting room. That lobby, McKee said, “was probably the most culturally diverse place you will visit this year in Vermont.”

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All Vermont prisons were locked down Wednesday, a scheduled event to allow correctional staff to check units for weapons or illegal substances, a state Department of Corrections spokesperson said.

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In July 2024, the secretary of Vermont’s Agency of Human Services announced that the state had been selected for a new federal health care reform model.

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University of Vermont Health Network leaders met with a varied reception in the Vermont Statehouse Thursday, with back-to-back hearings in a skeptical House committee and a friendlier Senate one.

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Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine told lawmakers Tuesday that the risk of avian flu in the general public is overall low, although farm workers may be at higher risk of contracting the condition.

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MONTPELIER — Vermont’s Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case challenging Gov. Phil Scott’s appointment of Zoie Saunders to be the state’s interim education secretary last year after lawmakers rejected her.

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Top executives at the University of Vermont Health Network received bonuses worth a combined $3 million at the end of last year, according to the hospital network.

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The Vermont Department for Children and Families went to extraordinary and illegal lengths to remove a child from its mother’s custody, aided by an internal program that monitors the pregnancies of multiple Vermonters, a new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont alleges.

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Last month, the University of Vermont Health Network announced a slate of wide-ranging cuts to its Vermont facilities. Those cuts — which drew a swift and furious outcry — included closing an inpatient psychiatric unit at Central Vermont Medical...

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For the second year in a row, University of Vermont Health Network hospitals reported bringing in more money than they were supposed to.During hospitals’ 2024 fiscal year, which ended September 30, the University of Vermont Medical Center and Central...

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Earlier this year, a consultant issued a report recommending sweeping changes to the state’s health care system — proposals that ranged from building more housing to cutting certain services at specific hospitals. At a meeting of lawmakers and state...

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The Guidon, Norwich University’s student newspaper, has resumed reporting and publishing for the first time since it was suspended by administrators earlier this year.Prior to this week, student writers and editors had refused to resume publication of...