Corinth
Corinth, VT · Health
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Patient's experience highlights nurse's lasting impact
Jessica Wescott, RN proudly displays her DAISY Award certificate. Wescott was honored for combining knowledge, compassion and a willingness to go the extra step while caring for Donna Haynes, a patient receiving infusions at University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital. — ELIZABETHTOWN| Every other week, Donna Haynes settles in for another infusion at University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital – a routine that has become part of her life for more than a year and a half.
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E'town one step closer to municipal wastewater treatment
ELIZABETHTOWN | Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC), the town can continue investing in the design work needed to fund the proposed $38 million wastewater treatment project, which will provide centralized services to about 450 users. “With help from this grant, we will be...
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Saranac Lake Family Health walk-in hours expanded
SARANAC LAKE | Hudson Headwaters Health Network is expanding access to timely primary care services in the Tri-Lakes region with new walk-in hours at Saranac Lake Family Health, located within Adirondack Medical Center at 2249 State Route 86. Walk-in hours are available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. for Hudson Headwaters patients who receive care at any location. No appointment is necessary.
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Vermont Center on Cardiovascular and Brain Health celebrates renewed grant
Kathryn Morelli, Ph.D. (left), points out neurons and their axon projections on an image of a brain organoid with graduate assistant Abby Kirch, cellular, molecular, and biomedical sciences doctoral candidate. (photo: Ceilidh Kehoe) Vermont Business Magazine At a state-of-the-art biomedical research center at the University of Vermont, a cadre of...
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Devon Green: Next steps on health care bills
The 2025-2026 biennium ended with the fall of a gavel on Friday evening. With the close of those (very) heavy State House doors, a different kind of work begins. Legislators will hit the campaign trails. We here at VAHHS will be working with our members to implement the bills that have passed and prepare policy for next session. In the meantime, these were the final health-related bills to make it over the finish line:
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CVPH Healthcare Workers Continue Fight for Fair Contract
On Thursday, May 21, more than one hundred NYSNA nurses and healthcare professionals at the University of Vermont-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) held an informational picket to demand safe staffing and a fair contract! NYSNA members were joined at the info-picket by labor and elected allies, including leaders from the Northeast Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the Plattsburgh City Council and the Plattsburgh Town Council. The informational picket received coverage in the Press Republican, WAMC, and ABC22/FOX44.
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UVM offers student loan forgiveness to keep primary care doctors in Vermont
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Amid a nationwide shortage of primary care physicians, rural states like Vermont feel the worst of it. Keeping medical students in Vermont is particularly difficult, since many graduates have hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, and the paychecks that come with primary care don’t always keep up.
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CVPH nurses union rallies for safe staffing, limits on AI in health care
Members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) union at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh picketed outside the hospital Thursday to push for safer staffing ratios and limits on the use of artificial intelligence in their new contract. Cara ChapmanCVPH nurses union rallies for safe staffing, limits on...
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VAHHS: State healthcare legislation is nearing completion
In years past, legislators would have already decamped back to their hometowns to gear up for campaign season. While things aren’t over yet, the health care issues appear to be wrapping up rapidly. Reference-Based Pricing: The House Health Care Committee advanced S.190, which puts the Green Mountain Care Board...
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Rural Health System ‘Eroding Faster Than We Can Respond,’ Leaders Warn at NY Roundtable
CARLY NEWTON – The Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. PLATTSBURGH — The North Country is on the edge of a healthcare crisis, local doctors and healthcare leaders said last week during a roundtable hosted by NY-21 Congressional candidate Blake Gendebien. “I’ve been in healthcare since 1971, and every year is...
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VTDigger
AI is quietly reshaping how Vermont’s doctors care for patients — and themselves
Advocates of the technology say it radically reduces the amount of burnout clinicians face and allows them to focus on the truly human parts of medicine. Read the story on VTDigger here: AI is quietly reshaping how Vermont’s doctors care for patients — and themselves .
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Tick bite hospital visits spike to decade high, CDC says
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North Country Healthcare Workers Speak Out for Safe Staffing and a Fair Contract
On Wednesday, April 29, NYSNA members at UVM-Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) held a speak-out to demand safe staffing and a fair contract. NYSNA nurses, healthcare professionals and IT professionals, have been fighting for a fair contract that protects patient care and ensures access to care for North Country patients since earlier this year. Kim Hartshorn, Secretary of the Northeast Central CLC, joined NYSNA members in solidarity at the speak-out. The Plattsburgh Press Republican, NBC5, ABC22, the Sun Community News, and WAMC all covered the action.
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Panel discusses rural hospital financial challenges
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) - Financial challenges facing rural hospitals were the focus of a panel discussion hosted by Democratic congressional candidate for the 21st District Blake Gendebien. Current and former medical professionals discussed issues facing rural hospitals, including the lack of primary care physicians and the need to expand mental...
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Community raises $319,693 to support Golisano Children’s Hospital at UVM Health
(left to right) Richard L. Paige, MD, Dean of Larner College of Medicine at University of Vermont, Judy Schaechter, MD, incoming chair of Pediatrics at Golisano Children’s Hospital at UVM Health, and Lewis First, MD, MBA, chair of Pediatrics at the children’s hospital, pose with the hospital’s mascot, Monty the Moose, during the Finale of Big Change Roundup for Kids.