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Vermont Business Magazine The VT-NH Affiliate of Susan G Komen for the Cure has awarded a $20,000 grant to the Southwestern Vermont Health Care Foundation for support of the Breast Health Rural Outreach Program.
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Vermont Business Magazine The federal government has released its first overall hospital quality rating last week, similar to the long-standing 5-Star CMS rating used for nursing homes. In Vermont, no hospital achieved a five star rating, and only Porter Hospital, Central Vermont Hospital and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital achieved four-star ratings.
Vermont Business Magazine Interim CEO Dr Fred Kniffin shared with Porter Medical Center employees on Monday that the PMC Board of Directors has identified the University of Vermont Health Network as its potential partner, should the Middlebury hospital system choose affiliation at the conclusion of Porter’s ongoing strategic planning process.
by Claudio Fort, CEO of North Country Hospital in Newport At North Country Hospital in Newport, improving the health of our community is our greatest responsibility. Every aspect of running this hospital – from budgeting, to planning for improvements, to deciding what services we can or should offer – is in service of helping the people of our region get and stay healthy.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont health officials are warning street drug users about an especially deadly strain of heroin that is circulating in several parts of the state, including central Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom. According to reports from emergency responders over the weekend, at least 10 people have overdosed, taking more than one dose of naloxone (Narcan)
Vermont Business Magazine During the spring of 2016, the Vermont Legislature approved an additional one million dollars in funding for the Child Care Financial Assistance Program in State Fiscal Year 2017.
Vermont Business Magazine A pair of autistic twins whose behavior, school attendance, and hygiene problems nearly exhausted efforts by educators and their own parents; a boy whose constant school absence and untreated ringworm were symptoms of his mother's hoarding and health issues; a quiet, 14-year-old girl who suffered physical and mental abuse from her alcoholic mother – th
Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont is launching a new graduate certificate program in fall 2016 that features a concise, six-course immersion in the quantitative sciences of public health used for analyzing diseases and health-related conditions.
According to the World Health Organization, nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight and yet 50% of American women and 25% of men are currently on a diet. These two statistics seem to be at odds and beg the question: What’s not working?
Vermont Business Magazine In response to a report showing lower-than-expected state revenues in the first month of the new fiscal year, Phil Scott for Vermont Campaign spokeswoman Brittney Wilson issued the following statement: “Yet again, our state’s general fund revenue is failing to meet expectations.
Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power has reached an agreement with Enel Green Power NA to acquire 14 of its small hydroelectric power stations located mainly in northern New England, with an approximate total capacity of 17 MW.