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Vermont Business Magazine Community members, RMHC supporters and Care Mobile staff gathered on Friday to celebrate a decade of bringing free dental screenings and care to Vermont's under served youth population. The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile is a 40-foot, 26,000 pound traveling dental clinic donated by Ronald McDonald House Charities Global. Operated and staffed by professionals at the Plainfield Health Center, this state-of-the-art vehicle provides comprehensive pediatric dental care to children (ages 0-20 years) primarily in the Northeast Kingdom. 

Vermont Business Magazine Garnet Transport Medicine, a state-of-the-art non-emergent medical transport service based in Essex Jct, will provide 24/7/365 inter-facility transport throughout Vermont. Garnet’s services include Basic and Advanced Life Support ambulance service and Non-Emergent Medical Transport (non-emergency) for those requiring wheelchair accommodation, all with a focus on patient-centered care.

Director of Operations, William (Bill) Cotell will establish and maintain an operations model that is vital to the region. He has hired a full complement of EMTs, AEMTs, Paramedics, and Communication Specialists. Cotell is a certified Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic with over 20 years of experience.

Vermont Research Newsletter More than a decade ago, Wal-Mart agreed to locate its first store in a downtown, eschewing the suburban location that can devastate main street businesses. Since then other chains have followed suit. The story of Wal-Mart’s Rutland location includes a trip to Bentonville. AR, by a group of visionary Vermonters; The trend in prime working-age population is improving, with Vermont outperforming other Northeastern states for the first time in recent years; A recent article finds that trust in the government correlates to constitution length, with higher levels of trust associated with shorter constitutions, like Vermont's.

​Vermont Business Magazine The State of Vermont recently won a national award for the newly redesigned state government portal website. The dotCOMM Awards named the State of Vermont a gold winner in the government category for the new Vermont.gov.

#BeThere Campaign Urges Our Community to Support Veterans

Vermont Business Magazine In observance of Suicide Prevention Month, White River Junction VA Medical Center is bringing awareness to its #BeThere campaign by encouraging community leaders, colleagues, and veterans’ families and friends to help prevent suicide by showing support for those who may be going through a difficult time.

Suicide is a complex national public health issue that affects communities nationwide, with more than 45,000 Americans, including more than 6,000 Veterans, dying by suicide every year. But suicide is preventable. VA is using a community-driven approach to prevent suicide and finding innovative ways to deliver support and care to all 20 million U.S. Veterans whenever and wherever they need it.

Vermont Business Magazine SaVida Health, a leader in outpatient medication-assisted treatment for opioid and alcohol addiction, is opening a new treatment center in Vergennes, VT on September 16^th.  SaVida Health Vergennes is the fourth Vermont location—joining the SaVida Health Bennington, Springfield, and Newport, VT sites.

Vermont Business Magazine The 14th annual Kelly Brush Ride powered by VBT Bicycling Vacations raised $705,000 for adaptive sports and ski racing safety. The ride, held on September 7 in Middlebury, Vermont, drew 940 participants, a record for the event. Funds raised support the Kelly Brush Foundation mission to inspire and empower people with spinal cord injuries to live active lives and support the foundation’s ongoing collaboration with the ski racing community to improve safety in the sport.

Vermont Business Magazine Quality of Life Plus (QL+), a non-profit organization headquartered in McLean, Virginia, and Norwich University’s David Crawford School of Engineering (DCSE) in Northfield, Vermont, are partnering to develop novel technical solutions to assist and improve the quality of life for injured veterans and first responders.

Vermont Business Magazine US Citizenship and Immigration Services will present 15 citizenship candidates to the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont during a special naturalization ceremony at the Shelburne Museum aboard the Ticonderoga on Tuesday. Magistrate Judge John M Conroy will administer the Oath of Allegiance to the candidates, and Shelburne Museum Deputy Director Berenice Sarafzade will provide remarks to the new citizens. This ceremony is one of over 316 ceremonies that will welcome more than 34,300 new citizens at Constitution Day and Citizenship Day ceremonies across the nation between September 13 and 23.

Vermont Business Magazine Southwestern Vermont Health Care will offer a 12-week Qi Gong class for cancer survivors and members of their support teams. The classes are scheduled 6:30 – 7:30 pm Wednesdays, starting September 25. This section—titled “Tune-up, Tonify, and Strengthen”—is appropriate for beginners and those who are experienced in Qi Gong. The class is presented by Nate Sumner of Villari’s Martial Arts Center.

Participants will learn to increase their energy; release stress, anger, grief, and other negative emotions; cleanse their energy to achieve more well-being; find peace in the here and now; and activate their feeling of intelligence. Benefits include improved immunity, better sleep, increased energy sensitivity, greater vitality, and stress relief.

Ethan Allen Institute The week of September 20-27 has been designated by a handful of activist and lobbyist groups as a “Global Climate Strike and Week of Actions.” The objective is to encourage people to skip work and for students to skip school, go out and block traffic, picket offices and businesses, and generally disrupt people’s ability to function in their daily lives. It is a massive temper tantrum orchestrated to intimidate legislators and citizens into supporting a radical climate change agenda that an overwhelming majority of Vermonters does not support. If it did, a sympathetic legislature would have passed the agenda with its veto-proof majority.

Health officials urge Vermonters to quit using e-cigarette products

Vermont Business Magazine The first case of vaping-associated severe respiratory illness in a Vermont resident has been confirmed by the Vermont Department of Health. Five other possible cases are currently being investigated. The Health Department first alerted health care providers on August 29, 2019, and has been collaborating with CDC, FDA, and state and local health departments on the multistate outbreak of lung disease associated with the use of e-cigarette products (devices, liquids, refill pods, cartridges).