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By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Service cuts the University of Vermont Health Network announced last week have the potential to affect health care delivery across the region, including in the Upper Valley.The changes Vermont’s largest hospital system announced last...

HARTFORD — Health Care and Rehabilitation Services of Southwestern Vermont, or HRCS, will now provide drug test strips as well as overdose reversal medication at its Hartford regional office.The strips — which can be used to test for the presence of...

By PETER D’AURIA

Valley Vista, Vermont’s largest substance use disorder rehabilitation facility, will no longer take patients on methadone, an administrator said Thursday.The facility, which has locations in Bradford and Vergennes, will continue to serve current...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center and Valley Regional Hospital will be led by Dr. Matthew Foster, Dartmouth Health announced in a Monday news release.Foster began his role as the first permanent CEO and president of both hospitals Monday.The new...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The Executive Council tabled a proposal Wednesday to create a public-private partnership and allow Dartmouth Health to run the state’s Hampstead Hospital, after councilors argued they needed more time to review the contract.The proposal would allow...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a public-private partnership with Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital – a branch of the Dartmouth Health system – to take over the state’s Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment...

By AUDITI GUHA

Dozens of state legislators are calling on the University of Vermont Health Network to reconsider widespread cuts the health care provider has proposed.The lawmakers are seeking to “raise the voices” of the system’s most vulnerable patients, Sen....

By YARDAIN AMRON

Support staff at Morrisville’s Copley Hospital voted to unionize last Thursday. The formation, which came through a decisive 68-44 vote, joins together the hospital’s nearly 150 staff with its almost 100 nurses in the regional United Nurses and Allied...

By HOWARD WEISS-TISMAN

A legislative advisory group that was asked to make recommendations about whether health care providers should be allowed to use psychedelics to improve mental health says Vermont is not ready to begin a statewide program.Lawmakers set up the...

By PETER D’AURIA

The University of Vermont Health Network plans to make a series of service cuts at medical facilities across the state, eliminating or trimming services in multiple areas. The network announced plans to eliminate the transplant department at UVM...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

RANDOLPH — Victoria Davis has been a patient at the Sharon Health Center for more than 20 years, even choosing to drive about an hour from Piermont to Sharon to continue receiving care after she moved out of Vermont.On Nov. 7, Davis received a call...

By ERIN PETENKO

The Vermont agency responsible for long-term care facilities has improved its inspection process, a year after the state auditor’s office published a report that uncovered multiple failures.State Auditor Doug Hoffer released a follow-up report Tuesday...

By ELODIE REED

White River Valley community members will discuss the future of their health care access next Tuesday.That’s after a recent state-commissioned report recommended major reductions in service at four small Vermont hospitals, including Gifford Medical...

BURLINGTON — A New Hampshire doctor who ran a chain of now-shuttered addiction treatment clinics in the Twin States, including one in Grantham, pleaded guilty to conspiring to unlawfully distribute drugs in federal court in Burlington on Monday.Adnan...

By PETER D'AURIA

Last month, a consultant released a sweeping report that recommended big changes for Vermont’s health care system, including “major restructuring” at four community hospitals.The 144-page state-commissioned document lays out in detail a series of...

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health will use a $14 million estate gift to establish new centers for pancreatic care and digestive health at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, as well as a professorship in general surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine. The...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Good Neighbor Health Clinic will offer a free drive-through and walk-up vaccination clinic on Saturday.The clinic will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 19 at 70 North Main Street in White River Junction.The event is open to...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health Advanced Response Team, or DHART, will expand with a recent $6.7 million donation. The money will cover three phases of improvements, including purchasing new vehicles, developing an EMT certification program and...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — During multiple site visits to Lebanon Center in July and August, U.S. regulators reported finding  21 “deficiencies,” where the nursing home failed to meet federal health and safety standards.The deficiencies include administering...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

New Hampshire hospitals are taking steps to conserve IV bags, after flooding from Hurricane Helene knocked out a major manufacturing plant in North Carolina.The Baxter International plant produced around 60% of the nation’s supply of intravenous...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

HANOVER — Leah Farley had been a clinical social worker for 20 years, helping the vulnerable and voiceless, when four years ago she suddenly found herself in that same position.She was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The uncommon...