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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...

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...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

RANDOLPH — A report presented last week to the Green Mountain Care Board makes sweeping recommendations for restructuring Vermont’s health care systems and some communities and hospital leaders fear the loss of emergency rooms and inpatient beds, and...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

RANDOLPH — Michael Costa, of Norwich, is set to become the new CEO of Randolph-based Gifford Health Care this fall when current CEO Dan Bennett retires.Costa, currently the CEO of Northern Counties Health Care in St. Johnsbury, Vt., will begin his...

HANOVER — Duane Compton, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, announced Monday that he plans to leave that post at the end of June 2025.Compton, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology, has held the leadership position for...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

FAIRLEE — Camp Billings, a sleepaway summer camp on Lake Fairlee, is ending its season early due to a rapidly spreading gastrointestinal virus, camp administrators announced this week.The camp, which serves children ages 8 to 15, informed families on...

By PETER D’AURIA

Vermont hospitals are seeking the Green Mountain Care Board’s permission to increase commercial insurance charges and their revenue from patients, an annual process that comes amid widespread concern over hospitals’ financial health.Each year,...

By PAUL CUNO-BOOTH

A group of nurses from North Carolina are urging New Hampshire officials to stop a national healthcare chain from taking over Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, citing their own experience with the company.“The community needs to know what...