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Vermont Business Magazine The 31st Annual University of Vermont Children’s Hospital Golf Tournament raised $186,947 to support the world-class care offered to pediatric patients in our region. The event, held at Burlington Country Club, was co-sponsored by 24 organizations, including the presenting sponsor, Farrington Construction.

Vermont Business Magazine The Emergency Department at Mt Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC), a member of Dartmouth Health, has earned accreditation as a Level 2 Geriatric Emergency Department from the American College of Emergency Physicians. The voluntary Geriatric Emergency Department (GED) Accreditation Program, was created to recognize emergency departments that uphold the highest standards of care for older adults. The accreditation process provides best practices for geriatric care, such as guaranteeing the best transition of care from the GED to other settings and prioritizing education surrounding geriatric care.

Vermont Business Magazine The Joe Andruzzi Foundation (JAF), providing help, hope, and a reason to smile for New England cancer patients and their families through financial support when it is needed most, is pleased to announce its “Food Security Assistance” program is entering its second year of helping cancer patients across New England access healthy and nutritious foods to sustain them during treatment. Since its inception in 2021, the program has raised $436,850 for 1,867 cancer patients across New England. A total of $23,800 has gone to 107 patients in Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging (SVCOA) today announced that it has reinstituted public walk-in hours at both its Rutland and Bennington offices on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 2 pm. “SVCOA is pleased to once again open our office doors to public walk-ins on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.,” said Rosemary Greene, interim Executive Director with SVCOA. “For over two years now, SVCOA has continually adjusted its agency operations to keep clients, staff, volunteers and community partners safe throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, while ensuring continuity of high-quality service delivery. While public access to our offices in both Rutland and Bennington had previously been limited and by appointment only, we’re thrilled to now offer greater public access and be open to public walk-ins two days a week.”

Vermont Business Magazine The next guest on Medical Matters Weekly is Kathleen Martin Ginis, PhD, a leading exercise behavioral scientist who has been the principal investigator on more than $11 million in exercise psychology research and a source for countless national publications, including The New York Times, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Men’s Health & Fitness, and Shape Magazine, among others. The show airs on Facebook Live at noon on Wednesday, August 24. The show is produced by Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV).

Vermont Business Magazine The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) announced assistance for 25 small and rural communities from across the country to identify strategies to grow their outdoor recreation economies and revitalize Main Streets through the Recreation Economy for Rural Communities (RERC) program. Three communities in New England were among those selected: Bangor, Maine, Claremont, New Hampshire, and Marshfield, Vermont.

Vermont Business Magazine After a year of declining available homes for sale in Burlington, inventory went up 26.5% for the month of June, according to RE/MAX, but closed transactions went down 31.3%. The number of transactions and prices also fell for the month. Median home prices are still well ahead of where they were a year ago. The median home price is $420,500.

Vermont Business Magazine A total of $4.5 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Education has been awarded to support first-generation college students in Vermont. Northern Vermont University-Johnson was awarded a $2.7M five-year grant, and Northern Vermont University-Lyndon was awarded a $1.8M five-year grant for their Upward Bound programs. The grants will continue to support the Upward Bound program when NVU unifies with Castleton University and Vermont Technical College to become Vermont State University in July 2023. Upward Bound is one of the US. Department of Education’s TRIO programs and is free for any eligible participating student. Students are eligible if neither parent has completed a bachelor’s degree, or if the family is low-to-moderate income, based on federal guidelines.

Vermont Business Magazine A sample of mosquitoes collected in Alburgh have tested positive for West Nile virus. This is the first positive pool of mosquitoes of the 2022 surveillance season. A pool is a group of up to 50 mosquitoes of the same species and location. There have been no human cases of West Nile virus yet this year. The last confirmed case was in 2021. West Nile virus is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. Historically, the virus has been found in all counties of Vermont. Most people who are infected do not get sick from the virus, but it can lead to serious illnesses, such as encephalitis. Symptoms of illness can include fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or a rash. People aged 50 and older are at highest risk.